Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has taken a shot at “character umpiring” inside the AFL after Fremantle‘s Jordan Clark had a match-defining free kick paid in opposition to him throughout the Dockers’ 10-point loss to the Blues on Saturday.
With lower than a minute left to play on the Adelaide Oval and Carlton clinging to a four-point lead, Clark was caught arguing with an umpire a few earlier determination, leading to a free kick within the Blues’ ahead 50 for dissent.
Carlton’s Matthew Kennedy booted a aim to increase the margin to 10 factors because the clock ticked down on the match.
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In response, former AFL umpire Michael Pell— who was stood down from his job on suspicion of supplying Brownlow medal info in 2022 — launched a scathing assault on Clark’s “smelly perspective”.
“The irony in all that is that I warned Jordan Clark in a COVID-19 14v14 nothing sport when he was a spoilt brat and carrying on, that he wanted to cease abusing umpires,” Pell wrote on X on Sunday.
“Guess he nonetheless hasn’t learnt.”
Clark was drafted to Geelong with decide No.15 in 2018, the place he performed 32 video games between 2019 and 2021 earlier than being traded again to his residence state.
McGuire was unimpressed with Pell providing his two cents value on Clark given he stays beneath investigation for corruption after allegedly putting bets on the 2022 Brownlow medal.
By publicly offloading on Clark, McGuire was involved that Pell was organising the defender for “character umpiring”.
“He introduced up character umpiring,” McGuire advised 9’s Eddie and Jimmy podcast.
“So, in what he mentioned, he made the purpose that he remembered him from a observe match so due to this fact, he checked out this man a bit in a different way.
“Now, if Jordan Clark had been Billy Smith on the market, would the umpire have paid the free kick or do they go, ‘We learn about you [and] we have had sufficient of you’.”
McGuire continued: “Umpires should not be stepping into with preconceived concepts and paying free kick as they’re there.
“Now if Pell is placing out Jordan Clark … [the umpires] are on the lookout for that behaviour.”
Pell stays beneath investigation with the Victoria Police’s sporting integrity intelligence unit concerned.
As Pell was sacked by the AFL in December 2022, McGuire was additionally involved by the delay in handing down the probe’s findings.
”I want to know the place this investigation into corruption of the voting of the Brownlow medal is in the intervening time as a result of we’re about to be two Brownlows down the observe from [the incident],” he mentioned.
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