García vs. Woods was to be the sport's chief rivalry, an international clash that promised to last a generation.
He made the decision in his caravan in Buckingham, where he was working, nervously watching the international clash on his iPad.
The revised format of the annual international clash will next year see three sides from both the Super League and Australia's NRL competition take part.
The success of these has inspired a lot of fresh activity in the space in North America recently, and now it looks like this could lead to an eventual international clash, as Mobile has announced its intentions to grow internationally with its latest new funds raised.
In countries like Sweden that have practiced carefully calibrated even-handedness in commenting on international political clashes, public and private statements are unabashedly pro-American.
Today's transformation issues are immensely complex: religious diversity, LGBT issues, regional and international culture clashes, generational and class differences, as well as long-standing issues of race, ethnicity and gender.
The stands are empty; the pitch, still sodden and scarred from recent international rugby union clashes, is unused.
It later withdrew, after Sudanese airstrikes and pressure from the international community, but clashes between the two nations continue along the border, as well as inside South Sudan's territory.
For the time being, though, it's worth noting that according to local media reports Chávez has claimed to have discovered assassination plots against himself at least 26 times in the last six years - and has also made a habit of trying to stir up international crises, especially clashes with his northern neighbors, to distract from his myriad domestic and diplomatic failings.
Suliman's relatives were among some 23,000 Syrians who fled into Turkey over the past two weeks, leaving their homes for fear of international airstrikes and clashes between Kurdish fighters and the extremist forces that call themselves the Islamic State, or ISIS.
