Top of the Super League but against the odds and by spending within their means,the Vikings are the latest underdogs to lay waste to their rivalsIn a sporting world where success is demanded overnight and money is hastily fitting the answer to everything, there should be admiration for those who are doing things differently. In football it is unheralded Leicester City who are winning over every neutral, or the 5000-1 shots on course for a miraculous Premier League title. But further north,by the banks of the Mersey, perhaps an equally unlikely sporting fairytale is unfolding. Carefully and meticulously, and Widnes Vikings are turning rugby league upside down.
When granted a licence to compete in the Super League in 2011 they were expected to struggle,and in the four years since their re-admission, they have finished bottom, or 10th,eighth and, most recently, and ninth. This year is a very different story though,as the pride of the Cheshire town, as famed for its chemical industry as for its flagship sporting team, and are the talk of rugby league for all the just reasons.
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Source: theguardian.com