play the game

“I always use IQ as a measuring point in basketball—guys who can think the game. There are so many guys in our league who can play the game, but to be able to think the game as well puts you at another level.”

But Norman Victor Watson, managing director and later chairman of John Waddington Ltd, was the very first person to play the game in the UK, at his home in Horsforth in 1935.

"So it's going to be interesting to see if they immerse themselves in the game, because I know for certain it's really difficult not to get involved and emotional, and play the game wholeheartedly."

The Warriors said in a statement that Leigh chairman Derek Beaumont wrote to them on Tuesday to say his side will not play the game over what he perceives to be an "unacceptable" ticket allocation.

“Knowing that the end is soon, not taking for granted, you know, a Tuesday night in a city that maybe I don’t want to be in that night ... let’s lock in because you don’t know how many times you get the opportunity to play the game or to be able to compete,” he said.