Sport: Win some, draw some, lose some...

Sunday 16 November 1997 19:02 EST
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Honours were even for the home teams after Great Britain's rugby league side brought a disappointing finish yesterday to an international sporting weekend.

The England rugby union team had got things off to a reasonable start on Saturday afternoon by drawing with Australia at Twickenham, while the footballers continued their progress under Glenn Hoddle by comfortably beating Cameroon at Wembley in the evening. Yesterday afternoon, however, the Great Britain rugby league team found Australia too strong at Elland Road and lost their series 2-1.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Top left: Paul Scholes hits the England football team's first goal at Wembley Photograph: Fotosports; reports, pages 2 and 3

Top right: Mike Catt, who scored all of the England rugby union team's points, takes aim at Twickenham Photograph: David Ashdown; reports, pages 14 and 15

Left: Great Britain lose the rugby league Test series as Sean Long fails to stop Australia's Brad Thorn Photograph: Alex Livesey/Allsport; report, page 20

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