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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.

Christmas is coming – and December's Forty20 has dropped down your virtual chimney!
Inside this issue:
Kevin Sinfield delivers our annual Christmas message fresh from his latest challenge
Peter Smith assesses a wealth of new signings – coming to Super League in 2025
Mike Latham takes us back a century to Christmas Day 1924 – and it was a busy one!
Our columnist Brian Noble runs the rule over a host of changes, including the Captain's Challenge
Phil Caplan presents our books of the year and wraps up the international season
Trevor Baxter profiles the great Garry Schofield and we talk Boxing Day derbies
All of that plus a look at next year's key dates, a trip to Blackpool and our traditional salute to absent friends
Oh and our usual wealth of wonderful columnists, God bless them every one
Ho ho ho! Have a very Happy Christmas with Forty20