Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Nadine Dorries will be invited to sample rugby league at first hand after confusing the 13-man game with the rival code. Ms Dorries stunned a rugby league audience in St Helens by referring to Jonny Wilkinson's match-winning drop goal for England in the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup final in Sydney.
Ms Dorries was speaking at the launch of a report into the social impact made by the 2021 Rugby League World Cup at the Portico Vine community club.
"I've always quite liked the idea of rugby league," she said. "My long-standing memory is that 2003 drop goal.
