Rugby Reloaded
By Tony Collins
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Episodes: 196
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The social history podcast which explores the history of rugby league, rugby union, and the other football codes around the world.
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196. France's Expulsion from the 5 Nations.mp3
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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195. Rugby League in Thatcher's Britain with Anthony Broxton
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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194. Football in South America with Matthew Brown
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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193. Cricket & Class with Duncan Stone
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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192. Geoff Armstrong on the history of St George Dragons
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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191. Huddersfield: A Town, A Club, and Rugby's Great Split
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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190. Roy Francis, George Bennett, Race and Rugby League
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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189. The 'Roaring Red Front' of football clubs
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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188. Why is the rugby ball oval?
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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187. Farewell to Maurice Lindsay, administrator extraordinaire
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May 23, 2022 |
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186. The History of South African Rugby Union with Jonty Winch
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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185. Rugby's Concussion Crisis: A Short History (part two)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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184. Rugby's Concussion Crisis: A Short History
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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183. 1997: Rugby League's Year of Living Dangerously, with Steve Mascord
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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182. The History of Rochdale Hornets
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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181. The Obolensky Story, with Hugh Godwin
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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180. The 1946 'Indomitables' Tour with Martin Whitcombe & Huw Richards
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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179. The Newcastle Utd takeover and the ghosts of football past, with Gavin Kitching
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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178. The 1981 Springbok tour of the USA, with Derek Catsam
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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177. 'Keep On Keeping On' - Huw Richards on London rugby league
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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176. Hendrik Snyders on rugby league in South Africa
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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175. Dockers, Trawlermen and the Oval Ball City, with Trevor Gibbons
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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174. The 1914 Third Ashes Test Match - 'Wagstaff's Match'
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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173. The History of Hockey with Bruce Berglund
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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172. 'Rugby League is Dying' - the history of a meme
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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171. Joseph Platt & the problems of RL administrators
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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170. Rugby league, class and mental health with Jon Bell
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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169. Sunderland & the Origins of Football in the North East
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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168. Rugby Union, Poetry & World War One
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May 31, 2021 |
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167. How Leicester Tigers Saved Rugby Union
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May 24, 2021 |
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166. Origins of rugby in Hull - When East was West and West was East
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May 17, 2021 |
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165. Sheffield's Youdan Cup - The FA Cup's inspiration?
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May 10, 2021 |
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164. Rugby & Art - Robert Delaunay's 'The Cardiff Team'
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May 03, 2021 |
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163. Coal Mining & Rugby League
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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162. Going North - Welsh RL players from the Great Split to the Great Depression
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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161. Cricket & the Birth of Football
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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160. The Birth of Super League - 25 Years On
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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159. 25th Anniversary - The Roots of Super League
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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158. CFL-XFL merger talks, with Spencer Kassimir
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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157. Manchester - Rugby's Lost City
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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156. Julia Lee - rugby league trailblazer
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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155. Rugby League and the Jewish community
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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154. The Rise, Fall and Re-Rise of the Drop Goal?
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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153. Folk Football in Britain - football before 'football'
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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152. The Other Amateur Rugby - the early history of amateur rugby league
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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151. 'Rugger Diplomacy' - The British Foreign Office and Romanian Rugby Union in the 1950s
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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150. 150 Years of the RFU
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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149. Tries, Damned Tries & Statistics (with Neil Ormston)
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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148. Tom Brown's School Days
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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147. The Ghost Player at the Roses Match
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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146. Peter Harvey - From St Helens to Twickenham and Back Again
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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145. Christmas Day football
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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144. Puddings, Bullies & Squashes - early public school football
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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143. Talking Salary Cap Blues with Sean McGuire
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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142. Once Were Kangaroos - Mark Flanagan on the 1986 tour
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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141. Huw Richards on England versus Wales rivalry
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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140. Mark Evans - State of the Rugby codes, part 2
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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139. Mark Evans - State of the Rugby codes in 2020, part 1
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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138. Gus Risman - Rugby Renegade?
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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137. The Corinthian Spirit, soccer and amateurism, with Dil Porter
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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136. The Rugby Codebreakers redux with Carolyn Hitt
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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135. Brian Carney on rugby league & Gaelic football
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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134. Sports archives & mapping Irish women's football history with Helena Byrne
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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133. O Canada - lessons of rugby league expansion
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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132. TV, the BBC & British rugby league
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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131. Forty Years of Fulham & London league expansion
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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130. The Secret History of Leeds United
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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129. 25 Years of Professional Rugby Union with Ben Darwin
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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128. Rugby League - A People's History
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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127. The 1946 Indomitables' rugby league tour
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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126. Rugby Union and the Olympic Games
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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125. World War One & Australian rugby's great myth
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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124. Roy Francis & the Harry Sunderland Trophy
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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123. Prescott's Match and the Secret History of the 1958 Lions Tour
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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122. Rugby Union after the Pandemic, with Rhiannon Garth Jones
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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121. 50 Years Since the Lions won the Ashes (or, why the Poms Don't Win Anymore)
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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120. The National Rugby League Museum, with Dr Kevin Moore
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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119. The Oval Money Ball - rugby, stats and coaching with Rob Lowe
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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118. How to Market Rugby League, with Kacy Mackreth
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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117. Football History and the Crystal Palace controversy with Dr Kevin Moore
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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116. Rugby League After Covid-19 with Sean McGuire
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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115. All Blacks versus Springboks in the inter-war years
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May 25, 2020 |
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114. Bath v Wigan 1996 - When Two Cultures Clash
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May 18, 2020 |
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113. Was Soccer 'Football'?, or The Football Historian's Fallacy
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May 11, 2020 |
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112. Olsen Filipaina, 'The Big O' with Patrick Skene
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May 04, 2020 |
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111. Oneida FC - The Short Life and Long Controversy of America's First Football Club
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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110. Did China invent football? with Dr Kevin Moore
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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109. Rugby's Time Tunnel - The Mitchell & Kenyon films
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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108. Life Without League - diaries during Corona and the importance of history.
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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107. Facing Crisis: British rugby league and World War 1
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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106 - Netflix's 'The English Game'. How football did not begin
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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105. Face to Face with Crisis - British rugby league and World War 2
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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104. Rugby and the 1904 Smallpox Epidemic
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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103. Code Convergence? Is Rugby Union Following League's Path?
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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102. The history of Irish Rugby with Liam O'Callaghan
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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101. Women's Rugby League in Papua New Guinea with Joanna Lester
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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100. Rugby's Class War in Parliament with David Hinchliffe
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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99. Bradford's Great Split - Soccer versus Rugby in the Woolopolis
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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98. Vichy, amateurism and the banning of French rugby league with Dr Melissa McMahon
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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97. Six Nations History - The 1920s-30s with Huw Richards
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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96. 25 Years of Super League with Sean McGuire
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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95. The Social History of Rugby League in NZ with Ryan Bodman
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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94. What You Know About Soccer is Wrong, with Dr Kevin Moore
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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93. Barette - French women's rugby in the 1920s with Lydia Furse
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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92. When Kangaroos were Underdogs - Australian league in the 1920s-30s
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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91. The History of Aboriginal Rugby League with Professor Heidi Norman
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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90. The 1905 All Blacks - the tour of unintended consequences
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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89. Women & Rugby League with Dr Victoria Dawson
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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88. David Storey and Lindsay Anderson’s ‘This Sporting Life’
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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87. Penalty Goals in Rugby Union: Discipline and Punishment in the Oval World
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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86. The Future of Rugby Union. Unholy Union part 2 - with Michael Aylwin
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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85. Radical 'Rugby League Traditions'
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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84. Rugby and Society in NZ with David Scott
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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83. Cheltenham and the origins of GB v New Zealand test matches
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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82. Lucius Banks, America's first pro rugby player (Black History Month)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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81. Fifty Years A Robin, with Keith Pollard
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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80. 'Unholy Union' with Michael Aylwin
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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79. "Don't Scrum With A Racist Bum!' The 1969 Springboks' Tour of Britain & Ireland
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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78. Origins of Rugby Union's World Cup, with Huw Richards
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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77. Rugby's First World Cup - the 1954 Rugby League World Cup
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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76. Fabulous Fiji - its rise, fall and...
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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75. Dicky Lockwood and Rugby's Great Split
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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74. The Triumph & Tragedy of Don Fox
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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73. The 1982 Invincibles: The Tour that changed rugby forever
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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72. Why isn't soccer Australia's premier football code?
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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71. Springboks versus All Blacks - rivalry, racism and Ranji Wilson
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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70. Harold Wagstaff - A Northern Union Man
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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69. How Rugby Union became an Afrikaner Game
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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68. Queenslander! with Joe Gorman
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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67. Rugby in Brazil: Past, Present & Future
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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66. A Short History of Samoan Rugby
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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65. From Chooms to Poms: How Rugby League explains Anglo-Australian Relations
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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64. Football Firsts... the last thing we need?
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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63. From the Football League to the Champions League...
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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62. Race, racism and the origins of Aussie Rules
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May 27, 2019 |
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61. Rugby Wars in Two World Wars
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May 20, 2019 |
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60. Hybrid Heaven or Merger Most Foul?
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May 13, 2019 |
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59. Rugby in Asia and the Far East
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May 06, 2019 |
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58. Argentina - Why Soccer Defeated Rugby
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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57. Before the Wolfpack - Canadian Rugby League History
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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56. Game of Throw-ins - A History of the Line-Out
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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55. The American RL All Stars & the lessons for today (with Gavin Willacy)
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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54. 1906 - The Year That Changed the Oval World Forever
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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53. The 50-22 and the Evolution of Union and League
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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52. A Short History of the Scrum
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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51. 'Numbering Up' Statistically speaking with the Rugby League Project
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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50. 100 Years since the King's Cup - Rugby's 'first world cup'?
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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49. French Rugby League - The Struggle and The Daring with Mike Rylance
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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48. 'When Ellery Was King' Sean McGuire on the 1980s and League Expansion
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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47. Italy's Other Football Code - The Rise of Italian Rugby
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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46. When Six Was Four - The Roots of the Six Nations
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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45. Red Star, Rumania & East European Rugby
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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44. Refereeing & Philosophy (Rugby Reloaded plus with Ref Tim Roby)
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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43. Ebenezer Morley and the birth of the FA
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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42. History and the future of the Rugby League Challenge Cup
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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41. Football and the 1914 Christmas Truce
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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40. The Birth of Rugby in Ireland
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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39. World War One & the rise and fall of women's football
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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38. The Lions' Tale - A Short History of England Rugby League International Team Names
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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37. Tonga - From Tupou College to the Taumalolo Revolution
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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36. Empire of the Scrum - Rugby in Japan
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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35. Scotland and the birth of International rugby
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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34. South African Rugby Before It Was An Afrikaner Game
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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33. How Football Began - Who invented American Football?
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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32. How Football Began - Canadian Football
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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31. A Short History of Black Players in Rugby League
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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30. How Football Began - The Birth of Gaelic Football
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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29. How Football Began - Glasgow, Football's First Capital
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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28. How Football Began - Origins and Myths of Aussie Rules Football
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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27. Rugby Reloaded plus - Spencer Kassimir on rugby league in North America
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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26. How Football Began - Women and Football in the 19th Century
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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25. What happened after Vichy? French rugby league since World War 2
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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24. Countdown to Rugby's Great Split
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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23. How We Got to Wembley - The Rugby League Challenge Cup Final
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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22. How Football Began: Did Sheffield invent soccer?
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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21. Once in a Lifetime - John Sutcliffe, soccer's rise and rugby's fall
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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20. Why Soccer went global... but Rugby didn't
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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19. Football 1885 versus Rugby 1895 - Why Didn't Soccer Split Like Rugby?
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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18. Rugby's Hundred Years' War
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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17. Wallabies versus Kangaroos - the battle for the soul of Australian rugby
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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16. Why Does Rugby League Have A Six Tackle Rule?
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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15. Rugby League's American Dream
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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14. The Wally McArthur Story - Rugby League Pioneer
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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13. From the Wallaroos to the Kangaroos: the Origins of Australian Rugby League
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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12: Seven, Six and Nine - the origins of 'limited player' rugby
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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11. The First Rugby Tour To Britain - The 1888 NZ Native Team
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May 21, 2018 |
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10. 1895 - The Aftermath
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May 14, 2018 |
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9. Not the Lions - The 1888 British Tour Down Under
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May 07, 2018 |
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8. ‘Broken Time’ - How Two Words Blew Rugby Apart
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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7: Jean Galia & the first ten years of French Rugby League
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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6. Albert Baskerville & the birth of international rugby league
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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5. How 'Rugby' Evolved into Rugby League
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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4. Why does Wales Play the Wrong Type of Rugby?
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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3. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the 1895 Rugby Split
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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2. Rugby's Great Own Goal
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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1. William Webb Ellis Was Framed!
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Mar 13, 2018 |