Super League Grand Final: Warrington Wolves v Wakefield Trinity – live

Grand Final updates, 6pm BST kick-off at Old TraffordWakefield’s wild rise | Warrington’s long wait | Mail LeeSport and history at their best are about the stories. Rugby league feels the weight of history more than any other football code in this land and has the best story.Ask most rugby union or soccer fans when their game was founded and their response will be an “Errr?” followed by a quick Google, but put the same question to RL followers and “1895” is the immediate response. The year of the Great Split, 21 clubs in the George Hotel, the canary issue of broken-time payments and a clear throwing off of the rugby, and therefore society’s, establishment. A move that same establishment never forgave, as demonstrated by their active and relentless ignoring at best and persecution at worst of RL over the next century: league wasn’t allowed to be played in the armed forces until 1994, the sport didn’t get it’s first Knight until Sir Billy Boston in 2025, and don’t even get me started on what they did to RL in France. Continue reading...