Immortality: St Helens close in on sporting history – rugbyleaguehub.com

BY JOHN DAVIDSON Immortality. The chance to be in the history books, to be remembered forever. It’s something that drives people in many different pursuits and professions, and sport is no different.  The likes of Muhummad Ali, Don Bradman, Babe Ruth, Pele, Michael Jordan, Rod Laver and others live on after their feats in the rings, courts and fields have long gone. In terms of teams, Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, Ruth’s Yankees, the All Blacks, the West Indian cricket side, the Brazilian national football team of the 1970s, Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, to name but a few, continue to be remembered and honoured with the passage of time. Today’s St Helens stand in special company. Victory on Saturday, over Leeds, will give them four grand final wins in a row. No team in Super League history has ever done that before. The Rhinos won three in a row, between 2007 and 2009, and then won grand finals in 2011 and 2012. They were a very, very very special team. But they never managed four consecutive crowns, a feat of amazing consistency that deserves enormous respect in a salary-capped competition. If Saints win this weekend they will, in many eyes, deserve to be
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