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Rob Conlon

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Gary Hetherington is wandering down the Mississippi Delta

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By Rob Conlon
| realclass.co.uk
Super League — 5 min read Where would you find rugby league’s answer to the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, better known as the place where blues musician Robert Johnson may or — more likely — may not have sold his soul to the devil? Red Hall House, the old RFL headquarters just outside Leeds? The cash-for-cans bar at the Garden Gate pub in Hunslet? The roundabout on the A66 that gives you the choice of travelling on to Workington or Whitehaven?
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Same As It Ever Was

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By Rob Conlon
| realclass.co.uk
Super League — 8 min read It is over half a century since the RFL’s much-maligned secretary Bill Fallowfield admitted the sport had run out of ideas on how to arrest the decline in its popularity. “We try hard,” he said, “but your guess is as good as mine as to why the bloody public doesn’t come.” The saga is chronicled in Anthony Broxton’s book, ‘Hope & Glory: Rugby League in Thatcher’s Britain’.
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Andrea Radrizzani and Sampdoria’s mystery millions

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By Chris McMenamy, Rob Conlon, Clio websites
| The Square Ball: Leeds United Podcast
Back in September, I wrote a story in issue two of our magazine about our old pal Andrea Radrizzani buying the ailing Italian club Sampdoria after he left Leeds in the summer of 2023, a deal he made with his business partner Matteo Manfredi: Manfredi was seen as the reference point for the investors, several of whom have ties to Singapore and were reported to have been involved thanks to Radrizzani’s connections in that part of the world.
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