From the NS archive: Talking about rugby
28 February 1959: Many British intellectuals still look down on the sport.
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If the government is committed to our towns, it will save rugby league
With fixtures cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis, the identity, aspirations and social cohesion of the famous towns which play…
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The split between Rugby League and Rugby Union is the story of national class division
The Webb Ellis myth aimed to cement the claim of union’s leaders that rugby belonged to the public school men.
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120 years on, and rugby league is still patronised as “parochial”
Even as Leeds and Hull Kingston Rovers do battle in the 2015 Challenge Cup final, the century-old conflict between rugby…
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