THERE was always the risk that when “Union” went professional, all those pre Covid-19 years ago, there would be an overwhelming urge to use “League” as the template for the development of the game.
After all what could be quicker and therefore cheaper to commercialise the game. Unfortunately those responsible for this strategy set out on that course and proved to be anything but the lovers of the game.
Generally they fell into two overlapping categories: The “commercial” men who saw an opportunity to make money out the game. Their objective was to ma...