Today, still confined to light duties, I found time to watch the
exciting RL Challenge Cup tie on BBC2 in which Leigh overturned a 24-6 half
time deficit to beat Wakefield 36-30; I watch few of the Northern code games
these days and it has changed a bit in the fifty years since I used to go to
Station Road (to watch my local team Swinton win back to back championships)
with new rules such as uncontested scrums and the forty-twenty kick, and marketing-led
additions to the traditional team names – Wakefield now being Wildcats and
Leigh Centurions – and a quick look on t’internet revealed Swinton (no longer
at station Road and no longer a force) are now Swinton Lions, which of course
to their fans they always were.
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