Rugby league’s long history of racial diversity | Letters

David Hinchliffe points out that the league code is years ahead of rugby union when it comes to the inclusion of black and mixed-race players, while Bill Tordoff points out that it’s in a different class from union tooI am not sure whether I was amused or saddened to read of Ugo Monye’s “pride” in the selection of an ethnically diverse England rugby union squad (Britain sees rugby as a white, middle-class sport. This squad can change that for good, 15 August), but it very much reinforced my pride in being firmly of the other code.Growing up watching rugby league from the late 1950s, seeing bla…