some have asked. Commonly known as 'The Greatest Game of All', Rugby League serves as a metaphor for the north/south divide, also for honesty and corruption.
Dicky Lockwood was the David Beckham of his day. After the Great Schism Lockwood was stripped of all his medals and written out of Rugby Union histories. The miners that played the common game could not afford to lose their saurday mornings pay. The RU said that the game should be purely amateur. By this time, the Northern teams were better supported and had beaten the public school educated sothern teams for a decade. The Northern Union, later called Rugby League was formed by enteupernaurial Northern business men. For a century if an RU player so much as had a trial for an RL team, they were banned for life. Now, the two sports are different games.The ball is in open play for 80% of an RL game, 40% of an RU game. League is a game of try scoring, ball handling prowess. RU has disintegrated in to a game won on infringements and subsequent penalties. Northern hemisphere teams do not even attempt to score tries, drawing each match in to a mess. Southern hemisphere teams at least attempt to score tries. RU is an unwatchable affair based from top to bottom on deceit. The honourable code, though small is a game to watch. The crowds sing and cheer, enlivened by its' intensity. RU cowds stand, silent. 
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