ROB BURROW finally lost his fight with motor neurone disease yesterday but his legacy as a rugby league great will live forever.
A remarkable trophy haul of eight Super League titles, two Challenge Cups and three World Club Challenge wins with Leeds Rhinos, numerous plus international honours and individual accolades, has seen to that.
At 5ft 5in, Burrow lit up Super League for 17 years with his thrilling role in one of the great British sporting dynasties of recent times. But it goes far deeper.
For not only was Burrow one of the most iconic players of the Super League era, he was also one of the most loved.
A devoted family man with a wife and three beautiful children, Burrow embarking on a promising coaching career at Leeds when was he was cruelly diagnosed with MND in December 2019.
The support he received from within the game said everything about the strength of feeling towards him.
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