The remarkable story of Rochdale’s Fijian pioneers

Gareth Walker takes a look back at a special relationship between two very different places. This article was first published in 1999. In the early 1960s a remarkable Rugby League revolution took place in a small corner of Lancashire. Rochdale Hornets played host to a group of Fijians, men that had never played the sport before, but men that

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