Challenge Cup rugby match performed on pitch so muddy fan thinks ‘it’s 1955 once more’

Rugby league followers thought they’d gone again in time after a Challenge Cup match descended right into a mud tub.

Featherstone Rovers hosted neighbours Wakefield Trinity in an all-Championship conflict on Sunday (March 10). The guests, who have been relegated from the Super League final yr, have been naturally favourites to progress.

But the great previous Great British climate wreaked havoc on the competition, which Featherstone led 10-0 at half-time thanks to 2 late tries. Wakefield fought again to stage within the second half with a pair of their very own and a penalty purpose.

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The rain continued to fall as full-time approached and by the top of the sport, it was nearly not possible to inform the groups aside as a result of their mud-covered kits – with solely the referee’s inexperienced strip clearly seen.

There was additionally nothing to separate them on the scoreboard because it went to golden level, throughout which the soaking ball pressured Wakefield’s Josh Griffin into an error which Featherstone’s Gareth Gale capitalised on.

He sprinted 60 metres to recover from the road in a shock victory which noticed his facet make spherical six, the draw for which can be held on BBC Sportsday from 6.30pm this night.

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Fans watching on at house could not consider the circumstances, which seemed straight out of the twentieth century. One took to social media and questioned: “Is this from 1955?”

A second jokingly requested: “Jesus it’s like rugby from the 70’s, where’s Eddie Waring??” And a 3rd commented: “Throwback to 80s/90s this. Pure mud bath.”

“How can this be played. Can’t see who’s who,” wrote a fourth, with a fifth replying: “Pretty much every game was like this before 1996.” And a sixth added: “Good old fashioned game of rugby.”