
The electronic scoreboard at Cougar Park was out of action last Sunday, and the Robbie Williams impersonator had been warned to stick close to the touchline during his half-time set so as not to stray out of microphone reception range.
Such inauspicious surroundings hardly seem conducive to a fair fight against the might of the global sports marketing giant IMG, but over a quarter of a century after uproar over their exclusion from the inaugural Super League, Keighley’s old stadium has once again become a hotbed of resistance.