At half past six at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, on 29 August 1895, rugby split. Officials from leading northern rugby clubs, fed up with southern clubs’s elitism and their insistence on maintaining amateurism – a ruse to keep the northern teams down – voted to form a Northern Rugby Football Union, […]
Cricket
England’s tour to South Africa next month is in the hands of the government in Pretoria with a decision expected by the end of the week. The England & Wales Cricket Board remains confident the tour will go ahead and the team will be granted special dispensation to enter South […]
England had no justification for abandoning their tour of South Africa, the chairman of Cricket South Africa’s interim board has proclaimed. Judge Zak Yacoob attacked the tourists’ “negative” attitude after their trip was curtailed because their players were not in a fit state mentally to play the remainder of the […]