Peter Wilby on RL

[wilsontown]

In this week's New Statesman (think you can read 4 articles per month without registering):

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2020/11/peter-wilby-murdoch-calls-time-trump-why-polls-were-wrong-and-wigan-warriors-are

Scroll to the end.

[ATLANTISMAN]

Excellent and above all HONEST:)

Paul

[wilsontown]

21 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

Excellent and above all HONEST:)

Paul

Yes, I liked this line: "I love rugby union, but rugby league has a better political history".

Not sure about congratulating Wigan, but I'll let it slide.

[Damien]

Its always good to read articles where the journalist educates its readers about Vichy.

[JonM]

His byline picture must be about 30 years old. 

[M j M]

He's utterly wrong about the polls though. 

[M j M]

Seriously what a bizarre little thing to stick in the column. A bit too much of an obvious sop to the magazine's owner tbh.

[Oxford]

He actually wrote I'm a yawn man and none of typed a guffaw, chortle or chuckle.

They don't make TGG fans like they used to. When I were a lad they would've laughed like drains at that one.

 

[del capo]

22 hours ago, wilsontown said:

Yes, I liked this line: "I love rugby union, but rugby league has a better political history".

Not sure about congratulating Wigan, but I'll let it slide.

Have you forgotten that the owner of  The New Statesman has recently acquired 25% + shares in Wigan RFC ?

[Rupert Prince]

On 13/11/2020 at 20:22, Damien said:

Its always good to read articles where the journalist educates its readers about Vichy.

Its true about Vichy of course, but rugby league needs less political history more ... well more of everything else.