Rugby League has always been discriminated against. Especially by the French. The infamous act committed by the wartime Vichy Government in France, outlawing the then thriving sport of rugby league, disbanding its national association and seizing its assets, sacking RL players who were employed in the public sector, with rugby union the beneficiary, plus the game not even being able to use the term rugby until 1989 even though it was restarted after the war. French Rugby Union, colluded with this and continued to discriminate against rugby league by trying to deny the sport use of publicly-owned facilities. It is still hard to get media coverage for League.