Rugby: Wheeler - Tigers considered league switch

Leicester Tigers chief executive Peter Wheeler has admitted his club at one stage considered defecting to rugby league.

Rugby: Wheeler - Tigers considered league switch
Mon, 30 Jul, 2001 - 18:40

Leicester Tigers chief executive Peter Wheeler has admitted his club at one stage considered defecting to rugby league.

Wheeler, who provoked alarm in league circles by revealing that some of their clubs had inquired about switching codes, confessed that only a deal with the Rugby Football Union stopped Leicester joining the Super League.

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