Danny Richardson’s last-gasp drop goal secures St Helens win over Leeds

• Leeds Rhinos 22-23 St Helens
• Super League leaders win with 78th-minute drop goal

There cannot have been a more timely moment for a game quite as magnificent as this. In a week where the column inches have been filled with yet more incessant – and utterly needless – off-field squabbling about British rugby league’s direction moving forward, this is what should be written about.

How fitting, too, that it was Leeds and St Helens, two clubs on opposite sides of the seemingly never-ending argument about the league structure for 2019, who played this contest out. The sight of the Rhinos’ chief executive, Gary Hetherington, and his counterpart, Eamonn McManus, shaking hands pre-match having publicly traded barbs all week was always going to take some beating as the night’s defining shot.

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