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Rob Burrow’s wheelchair-accessible van vandalised outside restaurant

HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 32,534
edited December 2022 in The Rail
Heartbreaking scenes show how motor neurone disease took rugby league star from player in prime to wheelchair-bound and nursed by his wife who has to hold him up to play with his kids

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A heart wrenching montage showing Rob Burrow's decline as he battles motor neurone disease left audience members in tears at last night's BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. The 40-year-old, who is now non-verbal and confined to a wheelchair, was honoured with the Helen Rollason Award for his work in raising awareness for MND. The poignant clip showed the Rugby League legend as he is cared for by his wife Lindsey and fed dinner by his mother Irene. Viewers struggled to compose themselves as the footage showed Rob's wife help him to bed and the emotional sight of him making homemade pizza with his children.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-11565407/Ex-Rugby-League-star-Rob-Burrow-brings-BBC-SPOTY-audience-tears-speech.html
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    waller02waller02 Member Posts: 9,023
    edited December 2022
    Had a lump in my throat myself last night. What an awful disease, it was shocking to see how much he has deteriorated in such a relatively short space of time. Was very sad to see.

    Huge credit to Kevin Sinfield for all of his charity works.
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    TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,274
    Couldn't get through it tbh, I was just so choked up.

    I remember when my team Castleford rejected him for being "too small" and then squirming as he went on to be a prodigious talent. To be honest I'm struggling even to type this.

    As with the late Doddie Weir, I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed his career and am humbled by the courage shown.
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    HENDRIK62HENDRIK62 Member Posts: 3,162
    f ucking horrible disease, my dad died of it, we used to play 9 holes with my uncles and myself pushing him in the wheelchair and using a shooting stick to allow him to hit shots until he wasn't capable of doing it.
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    HAYSIEHAYSIE Member Posts: 32,534
    Rob Burrow’s wheelchair-accessible van vandalised outside restaurant


    https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/news/rob-burrow-wheelchair-accessible-van-164311670.html
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