Intricate pre-plotted plays befuddle defences with a blizzard of runners, while they shift the ball with a cardsharp's speed and dexterity. The play that broke English resistance on the opening ...

For those not familiar with rugby league and rugby union, it would be easy to confuse the pair as simply 'rugby'.

Legend has it that rugby union was conceived at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England in the 1820s when William Webb Ellis picked up the ball during a game of football (soccer) and ran with it.