The other day I was reading a rather interesting article by Rob Peat in the archives section of the southstander.com front page about when rugby league was made illegal in France. He states that when France was defeated In WW2, many from the right of French politics went into eager collaboration with their Nazi overlords, setting up a puppet government in the spa town of Vichy. Naturally this contained many 'establishment’ friends of the beleaguered FFR the perfect opportunity to destroy league.

Under the pretence that professional sport was damaging to the moral fibre of the nation the Vichy government produced a decree of 19th December 1941 that dissolved the French Rugby League, confiscated their property, grounds and assets.

[url=http://leeds.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=108All other professional sports such as cycling and football were ignored and naturally Unions own shamateurism was overlooked. Moreover, the playing of rugby league in itself was outlawed and was made illegal![/url

Now roll forward 2010 and we no longer have the Nazi party around thank goodness, but my friend has a theory that Remnant Nazis do exist. It’d all make sense wouldn’t it considering how rugby league isn’t reaching the potential it should be.

I recommend that you all give [url=http://theoriginalnycfreeadviceman.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-democracy-is-being-murdered-by.htmlthis a read[/url and decide for yourselves!

Is Rugby League Been Suppressed By Remnant Nazis or isn’t it?

Read this too;

The Forbidden Game The Untold Story of French Rugby League By Mike Rylance

Being.

It's a well known fact that league was a target because of it's links to the working man in France.

We have laws protecting gypsies rights following their deportation to Auschwitz and the like. Reparations were made to Jews and the others who lost property and loved ones. I'm not going to put it on that level but my understanding is the confiscated grounds, property and assets were not returned because it was in France and not in Germany. Were they ever given reparations?

Would love to read it, but its too expensive to buy and I bet its hard to find and lend. If anyone can help on the latter I’d be grateful!



I don’t know this answer personally but hopefully someone who does have knowledge about this particular subject will reply to this.

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Rugby League has failed to "take off" due to bad management over the better part of a century. It has nothing to do with the "Boys from Brazil"....and everything to do with the every man for himself attitude of the clubs owners in the mid 20th Century. The Wigan dominance of ther 80's was also damaging.....with the general population of the UK only seeing a couple of games on TV every year and a CC final that pretty much always ended with the wigan captain getting the trophy.....

Secret Nazi Organisations?...Did I log into the sinbin by mistake

I want to borrow another quote now -

[iThe majority of the governments, government agencies, authorities, agents, police and military officials are not aware of the presence of infiltrators in their midst, but would be the first to seek to remove them. The Remnant-Nazis are very, very clever! They have not only managed to deceive their ultimate enemies, most of those of us who love democracy and who love human rights and individual freedoms/liberties, but they have also managed to deceive those whose anti-social and reactionary 'values' are similar and who they plant/position in our midst![/i
Jean-Pierre A. Fenyo

Whilst upfront we can blame bad management on the reason why rugby league has failed to take off. But it wouldn’t surprise me if the Remnant-Nazis have deceived the management of rugby league since the war. As Rob Peat mentioned in his article - Cycling, Football and Union wasn’t touched by the Nazi reign in France. I can’t speak for Cycling, but Football and Union have seemed to have done better than league since the war - bad management or not.

I also want to add that Rugby League has very working class roots from the very beginning. We split from Union because the southerners had an unfair advantage over the northerners when it came to playing the game. Rugby League was all about fairness whilst the Nazis..

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a63a2b74-da1e ... abdc0.html Quote Rugby Union ... the sport which dominates the south'"

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a63a2b74-da1e ... abdc0.html Quote Rugby Union ... the sport which dominates the south'"

I’m not subscribed to the financial times.

Can you elaborate on what’s going on?

No, but for reasons I don't understand, my link brings up only an abbreviated form of the article. Google for "financial times rugby league world cup" and you should see the whole thing.

London Harlequins, [size=200Scarlets, based in Wrexham,[/size and Catalan Dragons of France play in Superleague, the premier domestic competition

How many name changes is that in 2 years


FFS......the FT used to be a decently written and researched paper.....now it's not even a pink chip wrapper.