Forty20

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.

Winners are grinners and the June edition of Forty20 is full of them.
Inside this month:
Hull KR enjoy a last-gasp win at Wembley to collect only their second ever Challenge Cup
While in the Women's Challenge Cup final, Wigan blow Saints off the park
York Knights are on the rise – winners of the AB Sundecks 1895 Cup
In Australia, New South Wales win the Women's Origin series and the men are off to a flyer
Phil Caplan takes a trip to London to hear plans for a revitalised top-flight club there
Trevor Baxter assesses the chances of Pom-in-waiting AJ Brimson and our new Ashes series kicks off
Brian Noble shares his views of latest RL developments and Ian Boldsworth takes in a lack of applause
Mike Latham looks at the Roughyeds of old and RSW watches a new Wigan documentary series
All of that and much more, including your chance to win a new book about Roy Francis
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