The Australian Football League (AFL) starts the 2016 season with a ban!

The AFL has released details of planned gambling restrictions on league’s accredited media effective this year’s season.

Starting March 24, the first game of the 120th season of the Australian rules football competition, media personnel will be banned from gambling on AFL matches.

Instead of a blanket ban on all matches and events, media will have a partial ban in them at a time when they are “working or present” at a game and during a two-hour period before matches or during the game itself.