Rob Burrow ‘looking down’ at emotional groundbreaking for MND centre – family
Burrow died at the age of 41 after a four-and-a-half-year battle with the incurable illness.
Burrow died at the age of 41 after a four-and-a-half-year battle with the incurable illness.
Ex-rugby league player Burrow died at the age of 41 after a four-and-a-half-year battle with Motor Neurone Disease.
People laid flowers and scarves at Headingley Stadium following the ex-rugby league player’s death aged 41.
The BBC Breakfast presenter spent time with him and his family.
Former Leeds great Rob Burrow died aged 41 after a lengthy and high-profile battle with motor neurone disease.
The death of Rob Burrow after his battle with motor neurone disease features on the front of many newspapers on Monday.
Weir set up the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation to fund research into MND.
Sinfield said the world had lost ‘a great man’, adding that his former team-mate was a ‘beacon of hope and inspiration’ since his diagnosis.
Sinfield described his former Leeds Rhinos team-mate as a “beacon of hope and inspiration”.
Burrow was diagnosed with the degenerative disease barely two years after ending his stellar rugby league career but refused to give up the fight.
Burrow died at the age of 41 after a four-and-a-half-year battle with the incurable illness.
Burrow’s former club Leeds Rhinos announced he had died after a four-and-a-half-year battle with motor neurone disease on Sunday.
Burrow was just 37 and had three children under the age of eight when he announced on December 19, 2019 that he had been diagnosed with MND.
Broadcaster Dan Walker, who interviewed Burrow when he was a presenter on BBC Breakfast, said he ‘inspired millions’.
Rob Burrow spent his entire rugby league career with Leeds Rhinos and helped them win eight Super League titles.