Forty20 features thought-provoking articles by the game’s most respected writers and fascinating face-to-face interviews with rugby league’s most engaging personalities.

The trial issue is the first of rugby league's biggest year in decades: January 2013. Inside, Brian Noble takes a club-by-club look ahead to the Super League season ahead, while Gareth Walker does likewise with an equally historic Championships campaign.

Elsewhere, Angela Powers of Sky Sports grills Leeds skipper Kevin Sinfield on his surge in popularity; Andy Wilson profiles New Zealand's 'Mad Butcher'; St Helens prop Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook prepares for action; and Mike Rylance profiles a France side preparing for the World Cup.

Publishing wide-ranging and open-minded stories that are bright and witty, punchy and intelligent, Forty20 is unafraid to grapple with the big issues of rugby league.

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Just when diversion is most needed, here is May′s Forty20 - packed as ever with terrific rugby league reading for these troubled times.

Are we still in lockdown? Who knows? But Phil Caplan brings us up to speed with how the coronavirus continues to affect rugby league – and ponders how the game might fight its way back to action.

George Clarke has the latest from the NRL, where a May 28 return looks likely.

We celebrate the anniversaries of State of Origin and the all-Hull Wembley final, while revealing the winners of a junior club big cash giveaway.

All of that plus your favourite regular columnists and features, the better to endure the current uncertainty.

Dig in! Forty20 magazine is determined to keep rugby league lovers entertained.