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Rugby league let down by another administrative shambles
A brilliant sport, the joys of which are so often ignored by the mainstream press, is once again blighted by off-field antics – this time over its international showpiece. JAMES NALTON reports

IT’S very rare that rugby league makes the back pages of the mainstream media’s newspapers, and when it does it’s usually a negative story.

That was the case again today when the news of Australia and New Zealand pulling out of this year’s Rugby League World Cup in England received blanket back-page coverage.

As reported in the Star, Australia and New Zealand say they made this decision due to how badly the Covid-19 pandemic has been handled in Britain.

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