“We’ve been to some places together us lads, haven’t we?” Matt Peet, head coach of the Wigan Warriors, asks his players.
It is half an hour before a landmark occasion inside Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium, the first Super League game played on U.S. soil up against the Warrington Wolves. Rugby league has a new frontier and its reigning World Club Champions are urged not to pass up the opportunity that awaits them outside of the dressing room where they sit.
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“We might play in Las Vegas once in our lives,” says Peet. “Once. And you’ll look back on this whole trip and it’ll make your f***ing heart burst because you were
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