Melbourne footy league bans spectators from huddles

The Essendon and District Football League has moved to ban spectators from joining the huddle at the end of a quarter on the back of a number of troubling incidents.

EDFL chief Andrew Johnston told Tom Elliott joining the huddle at quarter-time and three-quarter-time would be banned from next week.

“There’s been a number of incidents over the period of time but we just thought that we need to make a stand as a league, as a society,” Mr Johnston told Tom Elliott.

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