In my day, rugby games were always 3 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon- no floodlights back then! We didn't go to the Weaste, it was in the wrong direction, but we went to the Brit (just into Pendlebury from Irlam's o'th'Height) if we got out early enough. Gave me time to shed the blazer as we passed home on the way. And I didn't smoke till later, I was a good well behaved Catholic boy.

As for riots, Aussies will do anything. But I think the problems may be to do with the size of the crowds. It's hard to get really worked up when there's only 800 of you (like sometimes when Salford were on a low). But when there's 20 or 30 thousand, people can get subsumed in the crowd- like when St. Cyril egged on a crowd to kill the mathematician Hypatia in Alexandria- they scaped her to death with scallop shells...

which makes rugby league look a bit tame...