PETER JACKSON
Wigan won the Rugby League Challenge Cup final at Wembley for the eighth time in a row on Saturday April 29, 1995. Four months later Rugby Union embraced professionalism on a global scale.
Today, more than two decades later, the Wigan effect on Union at the very highest level is as pronounced as ever. Round Two of the Six Nations, like Round One last weekend and the three to come, will be influenced to a greater or lesser degree by two of the old Lancashire mill town’s favourite sons.
After five seasons with England, Ireland’s defence coach Andy Farrell is in the t...