The AFL is investigating an apparent time-keeping blunder during Saturday’s tight AFL match between Gold Coast and Fremantle.
The Dockers won the match by seven points, with their utility Tendai Mzungu kicking a goal a second before the final siren.
It appears that with seven minutes and 55 seconds left in the match, the time clock failed to re-start for 39 seconds.
The Suns’ Campbell Brown had just goalled to put his team up by five points and the clock seemed to temporarily stop immediately after the next centre bounce.
Fremantle kicked three of the next four goals to win the match.
Gold Coast’s Harley Bennell goalled with two minutes and 29 seconds left to reduce their deficit to one point and that was the margin with 39 seconds left.