Not all couples can boast three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, four Challenge Cup wins and a Manchester coffee shop.

Wigan Warriors’ Ben Flower has signed a new four-year deal that will see him stay with the club until the end of the 2020 season.

Wigan Warriors head coach Shaun Wane has confessed his frustration at not having any of his international players available for full training sessions.

Despite Sale Sharks recently being crowned Kings of the North, as well as George Ford and Owen Farrell both hailing from these parts, there is a tangible difference between rugby in the North West and the rest of the country.

Manchester’s Etihad Stadium has missed out on regaining rugby league’s big Magic Weekend event for 2016.

MM reporters have come together to produce Mancunian Natters, a sports podcast looking at the sport that gets the city talking.

Last weekend more than 125,000 people came to Manchester to watch both codes of rugby, at long last a chance for union to sell itself to the typically league-loving North.

Wigan Warriors’ battling spirit will put them in contention for Super League Grand Final glory in the coming seasons, says coach Shaun Wane after Leeds came from behind twice to edge the game by two points at the weekend.

Wigan Warriors and head coach Shaun Wane are intent on gaining redemption following last season’s final defeat to St Helens as they prepare for the Super League Grand Final against Leeds Rhinos.

Rugby union organisers simply would not put their game up against a football game with such magnitude, so why do they feel they can do it against the biggest game in English rugby league?

The Warriors ran in five tries at the DW stadium against a Huddersfield side that have yet again fallen at the final hurdle. Wigan’s Grand Final opponents will be decided in tonight’s second semi-final between Leeds and St Helens.