Widnes’s financial crisis serves as a stark reminder that money troubles are never far away in rugby league. But for a lesson in how choppy waters can successfully be navigated in sport the Vikings should look at events 70 miles or so across the Pennines.
Wakefield Trinity, five times Challenge Cup winners, were facing a very real threat of liquidation as recently as 2013, with mounting debts and losses approaching a million pounds a year. Today they have rebuilt themselves as one of the most prudent, competitive teams in the sport.
Written by Aaron Bower
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/09/wakefield-trinity-glory-fighting-off-threat-ruin under the title “Wakefield switch sights to glory after fighting off threat of ruin”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
