Australian Rules Football is one of the fastest games on the planet. Millions of Aussies treat the game as a religion with thousands of fans turning out every week. Families who support opposing teams have been known not to speak to each other for the week leading up to the clash of their teams.

You would have to travel to football crazy parts of South America and Europe to even come close to this fanatical support.Crowds of up to 100,000 stuff themselves into stadiums across the country to cheer on their favourite team. Colour, singing, screaming and crying will all be heard as fans wash down the traditional fair of a meat pie and sauce with beer while yelling at the umpires to give their team a free kick.

Australian Rules Football - The Game

This week sees the opening of the season and it expected that the first game will be a sell-out between two of Melbourne’s biggest teams, the Carlton Blues and the Richmond Tigers. For the uninitiated Aussie Rules is pretty is simple. There are four goal posts at each end of the ground. Kick it between the middle two for a ‘goal’ (six points) and kick it between the outer two on each side of the goal for a ‘behind’ (1 point). There is no offside and as long as you don’t kill anyone then pretty much anything goes. Well it is a little more complicated than that but that is all you need to know to start enjoying the game.

Footy Betting at 888 sport

888sport.com is proud to announce that they will be placing bets on this most exciting sport. This means that Aussies around the world can earn a few extra dollars footy betting on their favourite team, and other sports crazed people will have a new incentive to turn on the TV and get infected by the greatest sport export from the land down under.