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FRIDAY’S game at St James Park, Newcastle was a virtual sell out, 52,000 seats. In Jeff Probyn’s article, he asked why the game should not have been awarded to Yorkshire.
The biggest football stadium in Yorkshire is Hillsborough, Sheffield with a capacity of just short of 40,000, the next Elland Road, Leeds at 38,000.
Leeds Carnegie and Rotherham failed in their times in the Premiership due to lack of finance, which in itself was partly due to extremel...