For anyone on the hunt for an afternoon of sporting progressivism and a sign of a game on the up there cannot have been many better places to be on Sunday afternoon than Headingley.
While Yorkshire’s County Championship opener against Leicestershire was played to a finale in front of a few hundred members on one side of the Headingley campus, on the other side of the new multimillion-pound stand which punctures the skyline in this particular part of north Leeds, records tumbled on a momentous day for women’s rugby league. A few years ago clubs such as Leeds and York did not even have women’s rugby league sides.
