Keighley Cougars still feel pain of Super League exclusion

It is 20 years since the the Rugby League Super League was conceived, and it has been lost to time about bitterness and anger it created at the time.

For the first time it introduced the concept of the franchise system, with newly created clubs in London and France, and limited promotion to the top flight.

The highest profile casualties were the Keighley Cougars, who have claimed ever since that they were the victims of one of the greatest injustices in British sporting history, as John Shires found out: