Castleford Tigers main rivals are Featherstone Rovers, Leeds Rhinos and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

As well as news, Ridings FM covers local sports teams from the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Castleford Tigers and Featherstone Rovers in rugby league, to Ossett Albion, Ossett Town, Frickley Athletic and Wakefield F. C.

There are also derbies with Huddersfield and Wakefield Trinity, and to some extent Hull, Castleford and Featherstone Rovers, St Helens and Wigan.

In 1947 Wakefield Trinity centre Frank Townsend was fatally injured in a match at Post Office Road, Featherstone.

The club enjoy intense local rivalries with Featherstone Rovers and Wakefield Trinity.

When the Super League competition has been proposed, it was suggested Castleford merge with Wakefield Trinity and Featherstone Rovers to form ' Calder '.

Featherstone Trinity RUFC were formed in 1889.

They dropped the Trinity to become simply Featherstone RUFC in 1894.

Featherstone Rovers were asked to merge with local rivals Castleford and Wakefield Trinity to form a new club, Calder, which would compete in the Super League.

Peter Roe was in charge of Featherstone from 1999 to October 2001, before leaving to take charge of Wakefield Trinity.

* Calder derbies-between Castleford Tigers, Featherstone Rovers, and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

* Ridings FM-Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Castleford Tigers and Featherstone Rovers.

Cricketer Matthew Featherstone was born in Bromley and played List A cricket for the Kent Cricket Board.

Oldham Roughyeds finished their most successful season in recent years in 4th place on the National League 2 table, they then played and won games against Swinton at home then Barrow away in the play-off to reach the National League 2 grand final, but the game seemed a step too far for Oldham going down to an inspired Featherstone Rovers team at Headingley.

During this same period, and by now in her very early forties, she also played the elderly, paranoid and morose customer Mrs Delphine Featherstone ( nicknamed " The Black Widow ") in the BBC comedy Open All Hours.

Mrs Featherstone was the only rival to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel for the affections of shopkeeper Arkwright, played by Ronnie Barker, although she was attracted to him only because she liked his stingy ways.

The club was originally made up of local miners and between 1912 and 1913 played at the Featherstone Main Colliery Welfare Ground.

This version of the game is also played in West Northumberland / Cumbria area in the following villages ; Garrigill, Slaggyford, Featherstone, Haltwhistle, Bardon Mill, Langley, Warden, Haydon Bridge, Barrasford, Acomb, Allendale, Twice Brewed.

On March 9, 1970 two black radicals, Ralph Featherstone and William (" Che ") Payne, died on U. S. Route 1 south of Bel Air, Maryland, when a bomb being carried between Payne's legs on the front floorboard of their car exploded, completely destroying the car and dismembering both occupants.

Rovers finished second in 1966 / 67, their highest place for over 40 years and the Yorkshire Cup was won with a 25-12 victory over Featherstone Rovers.

A bold plan for the 2002 season failed, and when only one draw, 12 – 12 against Featherstone Rovers, was recorded after the first two months Thunder were forced to cut their losses.

On 16 October 1995 at Featherstone they faced Russia, who had been playing international rugby league since 1991, in their opening game in Group A.

Under coach Andrew " Andy " Kelly, Wakefield earned their place in the top flight on the back of their controversial victory over Featherstone Rovers in the inaugural Division One Grand Final in 1998.

Featherstone is a small former coalmining town with a population of around 16, 000 and for many years " Fev " have graced the top levels of the game in a manner that belies their small-town background.

Featherstone became a semi-professional club on 14 June 1921, beating Bradford Northern in their first game as a senior club.

From rock bottom strugglers, Featherstone were gradually transformed into a fit and competitive side, capable of matching the best in the league on their day.

Paul Daley came in as coach for the second time but failed to turn the team around mid-season and Featherstone were relegated in April 1987 for the second time in their history.

In late 2006, the " Friends Of Featherstone " were formed, their main aim being to provide money for contracts for players to ensure that Rovers gained promotion to National League One.

Featherstone finished 8th on their return to the second tier of Rugby League.

On 14 April 2012 Featherstone beat their local rivals Castleford Tigers 23-16 in the Challenge Cup 4th Round.

Featherstone avenged their Brewery Field defeat as they won 42 – 30 at Post Office Road, Whitehaven became the only club to do the double over the Crusaders during the season as the match at Brewery Field ended 22 – 26, and the Crusaders were also on the wrong end of a 30 – 22 scoreline against Batley Bulldogs, who were eventually to be relegated.

Dewsbury, captained by Mike Stephenson finished 8th in the league but the title was to be decided through a series of play-offs in which they also defeated Oldham, Featherstone Rovers and Warrington on their way to glory.

Many imitation products have found their way onto front lawns and store shelves since then ; those " official " pink flamingos made by Union Products from 1987 ( the 30th anniversary of the plastic flamingo ) until 2001 can be identified by the signature of Don Featherstone located on the rear underside of the flamingo.

This was attended by Lynne Featherstone, the minister for equality ; Evan Harris, president of Liberal Democrat LGBT group DELGA ; and Steve Gilbert, the Lib Dem MP, all of which said they support full LGBT marriage equality and a poll commissioned by Pink News and answered by more than 800 of their readership found 98 % in support of full marriage equality.

Around the same time in the UK Donald Featherstone began writing an influential series of books on wargaming, which represented the first mainstream published contribution to wargaming since H. G Wells.

The first two pits to close in 1985 were Barrow colliery at Worsbrough Bridge and Ackton Hall colliery at Featherstone.

Featherstone fired first and missed then Wakefield fired into the air saying he could not shoot a man who had seven daughters.

Bowles also appeared as a regular in the first few series of Rumpole of the Bailey as Guthrie Featherstone, QC, MP, Horace Rumpole's social-climbing head of chambers.

Their first show, The Featherstone Flyer ( 1978 ), pioneered in the Hope and Anchor pub in Islington, North London, and would be followed up by a series of other shows in ensuing years ; Captive Audience ( 1982 ), They Came From Somewhere Else ( 1984 ) and Gymslip Vicar ( 1986 ), the latter being nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award.

Harris signed a 2 year deal at Featherstone Rovers, as well as playing, he also took his first steps into coaching and working in the marketing department of the club.

Vicky Featherstone, the first female artistic director, previously head of the National Theatre of Scotland, will replace him in April 2013.

Featherstone voted to join the Northern Union in 1898 and became the town's first rugby league team.

Featherstone did apply for the first round of licences though with the popular view this would not be successful and could be used as a learning experience for future bids.