The new Premier League season starts this week so, as Leeds Utd once again take their place in the top flight, the new 'Rugby Reloaded' looks at the secret history of the origins of professional soccer in Leeds in 1904. It's a tale of intrigue, double-dealing and concealed conflicts of interest of businessmen and journalists that led to the death of a rugby league club and the birth of commercial soccer.

For more on the background to the clash between rugby league and soccer in the early 1900s, take a listen to Rugby Reloaded episode 99, Bradford’s Great Split: Soccer versus Rugby in the Woolopolis.

Holbeck FC (c. 1895): the rugby club that built Elland Road.