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European accepts amateur line judges in sport (10,5)

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I believe the answer is:

australian rules

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'sport' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'european accepts amateur line judges' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'european' could be 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'amateur' could be 'l' (as in a learner driver with L-plates on their car) and 'l' is found in the answer.
'line' could be 'l' (used when specifying particular lines from a poem) and 'l' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for australian rules that I've seen before include "sport" , "game" , "football" , "Sporting activity" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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