161. Cricket & the Birth of Football
Cricket's County Championship began last week, so…
160. The Birth of Super League – 25 Years On
Thursday 8 April is the anniversary of the 1995 m…
159. 25th Anniversary – The Roots of Super League
29 March 2021 is the 25th anniversary of the very…
158. CFL-XFL merger talks, with Spencer Kassimir
Barely six months after Super League pulled out o…
157. Manchester – Rugby’s Lost City
Manchester City and United are currently dominati…
156. Julia Lee – rugby league trailblazer
To mark International Women's Day 2021, this epis…
155. Rugby League and the Jewish community
The birth of rugby league coincided with a wave o…
154. The Rise, Fall and Re-Rise of the Drop Goal?
As the new NRL season is about to raise the value…
153. Folk Football in Britain – football before ‘football’
Humans have thrown and kicked a ball towards some…
152. The Other Amateur Rugby – the early history of amateur rugby league
Although rugby's great split of 1895 is often por…
151. ‘Rugger Diplomacy’ – The British Foreign Office and Romanian Rugby Union in the 1950s
Romanian rugby boomed in the 1950s, threatening t…
149. Tries, Damned Tries & Statistics (with Neil Ormston)
Facts speak for themselves, don't they? Not alway…
147. The Ghost Player at the Roses Match
It's widely believed that William Wollen's famous…
146. Peter Harvey – From St Helens to Twickenham and Back Again
This week’s episode talks to Peter Harvey, the fo…
144. Puddings, Bullies & Squashes – early public school football
To mark the publication of a new book on the orig…
143. Talking Salary Cap Blues with Sean McGuire
What's the point of rugby league's salary cap? Ru…
142. Once Were Kangaroos – Mark Flanagan on the 1986 tour.mp3
In the wake of the BBC's excellent 'Once Were Lio…