Wigan tried to add a touch of Hollywood to Super League’s opening night ahead of their trip to Las Vegas next month, with boxing announcer Michael Buffer among the VIPs in attendance to introduce the stars on show. But not even the greatest script-writers could have predicted how the most remarkable game in the competition’s 30-year history would unfold.
The biggest opening-night crowd was in attendance at the Brick Community Stadium. Not a single one of the 21,748 people here would have expected to watch the lowest-scoring game Super League has ever seen. And that does not even skim the surface when it comes to the records that were set here on a gripping, engrossing and ultimately bizarre evening.
