History has been made at Hill Dickinson Stadium after the iconic venue on Liverpool’s waterfront played host to its first non-football event. A sell-out crowd watched on as England bid to win the rugby league Ashes for the first time in more than half a century was eneded after they were beaten 14-4 by Australia.

England were looking to respond following last weekend’s 26-6 defeat at Wembley, and Shaun Wane’s side certainly asked plenty of questions in the first-half. And after a tight and tense affair, the score was level at 4-4 heading into the break after both teams scored a couple of penalties each.

However, the second-half followed a similar pattern to last Saturday's encounter at the home of English football.

Cameron Munster scored the opening try of the game eight minutes into the second-half before Hudson Young touched down five minutes later.

The last time a British team won the Ashes was in 1970, and in the previous series, 22 years ago, Australia dealt Great Britain a 3-0 defeat.

Australia, the double-defending world champions, even saw Josh Addo-Carr sent to the sin bin for deliberately making contact with Dom Young in the air just...