English rugby league officials have had some fun at the expense of their besieged rugby union counterparts with a cheeky billboard poster featuring Sam Burgess.
English rugby league officials have had some fun at the expense of their besieged rugby union counterparts with a cheeky billboard poster featuring Sam Burgess.
Controversial Irish bookmakers Paddy Power have had some fun at the expense of their besieged rugby union counterparts with a cheeky billboard poster featuring Sam Burgess.
The two codes went head-to-head in football-mad Manchester this morning when the English Super League grand final was played at Old Trafford while justa few kilometres away England played the last pool match of its Rugby World Cup campaign, taking on lowly Uruguay at Etihad Stadium.
The league code could claim a rare victory with a record crowd of 73,512 fans cramming into Manchester United's iconic ground to watch the Leeds Rhinos, including 37-year-old Auckland prop Kylie Leuleuai playing his last game, win the grand final 22-20 over the Wigan Warriors while there were rumours ahead of the World Cup match that tickets for the match at the 60,000-capacity Manchester City stadium were selling for as little as less than $NZ6.
But it was a mobile billboard outside Old Trafford and featuring former NRL league star turned English rugby convert Burgess which caught the eye.
It featured a picture of Burgess in English rugby gear but with his thumb hooked like a hitch-hiker and holding a sign photoshopped in reading: "Old Trafford".
Alongside it it read: "I'm a rugby league player. Get me out of here!'".
