A crowd of 5,308 arrived at Headingley to hail the first two Women’s Super League clubs to introduce player payments
For anyone on the hunt for an afternoon of sporting progressivism and a sign of a game on the up there cannot have been many better places to be on Sunday afternoon than Headingley.
While Yorkshire’s County Championship opener against Leicestershire was played to a finale in front of a few hundred members on one side of the Headingley campus, on the other side of the new multimillion-pound stand which punctures the skyline in this particular part of north Leeds, records tumbled on a momentous day for women’s rugby league. A few years ago clubs such as Leeds and York did not even have women’s rugby league sides.
