The number of football banning orders in place in November also fell, down to 3,173 from 3,248 last year.
A nineteenth-century French law banned religious orders except by special dispensation, though its application varied with changes of government.
Football has moved on thanks to banning orders and better, more sophisticated policing.
The exchanges are also likely to ban "verbal orders," in which one broker is asked to make a trade for another.
I have written before about the draconian effects of football banning orders.
It's depressing that even without these banning orders it's possible to take measures way out of proportion to the risk.
There were 29 banning orders in place in 2006, which was an increase from a total of 11 in 2005.
Eventually, the public opinion is turned in favor of robots, and laws are passed banning robot-harming orders.
The other change would ban "verbal orders," these sources said.
Of those arrested, 64 were given banning orders, and some were jailed.