Sports   (Talk about balls here.)

You have to remember that rugby league was origonally a breakaway sport played by northern working class rebels who had the audacity to disobay the establishment and ask for a share of the rugby union's money to compensate them when they had to miss work in order to play rugby. This led to the sport being suppressed, outlawed, and discriminated against for over a hundred years. When you consider the discrimination experiensed by the sport and it's players it's amazing that the game survived at all, never mind expanded.