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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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James Whaling

Nadine Dorries' rugby league blunder was as insulting as it was hilarious

Us rugby league folk, we have a chip on our shoulder.

We think rugby league is sport's best-kept secret, even though it has largely failed in its bid to escape the clutches of a single motorway running through the north of England for more than a century. Unless you want to go to the other side of the world.

That is down to a number of factors, one of which is the incompetence of several of its administrators over those years, matching the current situation in Downing Street and Westminster more widely.

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