Tributes paid to former RFL chief executive David Oxley following death aged 85

THE RUGBY FOOTBALL LEAGUE has paid tribute to its former Secretary, Chief Executive and President David Oxley CBE, who has died at the age of 85. Oxley joined the RFL in 1974, when the sport was at a low ebb, and led its modernisation and transformation before leaving in 1992 at the then compulsory retirement age of 55. He remained closely in