21 northern English rugby clubs broke away from the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to form the Northern Rugby Football Union, the precursor to the Rugby Football League. The core reason for the split was a disagreement over "broken-time" payments to working-class players who took time off work to play, a concept the amateur-minded RFU rejected. This marked the creation of rugby league as a distinct sport, emphasizing professionalism and catering to a working-class demographic, in contrast to the amateurism
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in which they now call " THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL " cheers big Chris on this bit of trivia, somehow after reading , this bloke kind of springs into mind in a perpetual motion .