Rugby league legend Rob Burrow gushed about ‘beautiful’ wife, raised £20m & completed marathon despite kill...

ROB BURROW once said: “There’s something beautiful about being cared for by the only girl you’ve ever loved.”Rob, who has died aged 41, leaves behind wife Lindsey — his teenage sweetheart — and their children Macy, 11, Maya, eight, and four-year-old Jackson.In 2019, two years after retiring, he was diagnosed with MND and told he only had two years to live.

He said: “I was wondering how I could cope with being small but it was my size which would be my greatest adversary. “I didn’t know much about MND at all. I’d read up on the internet about the symptoms . . . but I didn’t believe it. When I found out it was a massive shock.”“Most husbands would feel that,” he said. “It was tough on her. I thought, ‘I’m glad I have this disease and not her’.“I’m not trying to portray myself as a hero because any man would gladly take any pain from their wife and kids and give it to himself.

Of the difficult task the couple faced of telling their three children about his disease, Rob said: “It’s not easy. How do you tell them you’ve got something when there’s no cure? Lindsey was a great help. We wanted to tell them before Christmas because we thought that would be a distraction.” But his plight and charity work is bringing much hope for others, including a new research and treatment centre, the Rob Burrow Centre for MND, which hopes to open next year inThe chief executive of Leeds Hospitals Charity, of which Rob was a supporter, said he was “an inspiration, not only to the people of Yorkshire, but the entire nation”.

Rishi said: “The legacy of everything you are doing for the fight against this disease will change what it means to be diagnosed with MND.“Inspired by you, many will dare to dream and fulfil those dreams, in spite of whatever adversity they may face.”His former rugby club said: “He never allowed others to define what he could achieve and believed in his own ability to do more.

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