I was dependent on everyone playing well for me to get me where I wanted to go: the Lancashire starting side. We played three 20-minute blocks and I spent the whole hour playing as well as I could but also encouraging everyone around me.

If thoughts of young people growing fat and idle in a rugby-less void is rather depressing, the reader’s mood is lifted by Sinfield’s remarkable charity work for his former team-mate Rob Burrow and the MND community. It was an honour and a pleasure to be joined by Charlie Bird from the Extra Mile event for our final 8k and for Irish rugby stars Tommy Bowe, Ian Madigan, Gordon D’Arcy and Keith Earls to join us. His quiet, calm, committed leadership makes people want to support him and we are all doing that as he supports Rob Burrow and everyone living with MND' Clare Balding 'The friendship between Kevin Sinfield and Rob Burrow gives you faith in humankind' Sir Chris Hoy. He was awarded an OBE in January 2022 and given a special award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022. With friends, family, the MND community, and BBC Breakfast following his every step, Kevin set goals, targets, and standards for what he expected from those around him and smashed them all.When Rob was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease in 2019 it soon became clear Kevin wasn't the type of friend who sat back and did nothing. After completing seven marathons in seven days in 2020, and running 101 miles from Leicester to Leeds in 24 hours the following year, Sinfield ran seven ultra-marathons in consecutive days last year, from Edinburgh to Old Trafford. A one-club legend of Leeds Rhinos, who has now crossed codes as a defence coach for the England national rugby union team, Kevin Sinfield is a rugby icon. My worry is that in 20 years there’s no rugby left and society has a much bigger problem with, for example, obesity.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I would especially like to thank all the local authorities and councils who have given us their support; it means so much to everyone. His inspiring leadership and relentless focus on fundraising for MND shows how we should all strive to care more for each other' Gareth Southgate 'If you want inspiring, uplifting and empowering. A rare memoir where his achievement that first made him famous (rugby), aren’t the majority of the book. He was to become a league legend: 521 games for Leeds Rhinos, a 13-year England career, 14 Great Britain caps, seven Grand Final wins, appearance and scoring records galore, runner-up to Andy Murray in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, even the first RL player to appear on Desert Island Discs, when he chose a self-propelled treadmill as his luxury item.Former Liverpool, Bradford City and Bolton Wanderers footballer Stephen Darby and close friend and British Forces Veteran Chris Rimmer have partnered together to launch The Darby Rimmer MND Foundation. BBC Breakfast has been with Kevin and his team from the very start and captured each of the 3 challenges.