The remarkable story behind Russia's record 110-4 loss to Australia at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup
ABCIf you're playing rugby league for Russia the odds are always going to be against you, so Robert Campbell thought he may as well try and get them to work for him. "You can't bet on sport when you're playing but a few of my mates back home were on Australia to win by 49+, which was the most the TAB was offering, and Russia to score either one, three, five or seven points," Campbell said. "A lot of players with a rugby background switched codes because some teams got money, big budgets, and rugby was in difficulty due to the transition from the Soviet Union to Russia," Kulemin said. "The forwards were very straight up and down, you could tell they'd played rugby because they didn't really use fends or bumper bars or anything like that," Campbell said. "In my dreams I wanted to play professional rugby league but it didn't happen so I changed careers and did that in rugby union."
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