This is rob three years ago, in the existing clinic at seacroft hospital in leeds and, more recently, maggie s cancer centre in the city, gaining ideas and inspiration for the new building. hey, jonathan, how are you? i m good, thank you. and how was the drive in? yeah. jonathan griffiths was diagnosed with mnd six years ago. he says the staff here offer support for all aspects of a disease that changes almost every part of a patient s life. we ll talk about every step of the way. and the support is there if you need it. if you get emotional, which you can regularly do with a condition like this, they re there to support you, talk to you. they re there to support what you re thinking, yow you re feeling. and just really great people. today, he s checking
Salford. work to build the rob burrow centre for motor neurone disease in leeds has begun, a day after the death of the former rugby league player. rob had a stellar 17 year career that included winning eight super league grand finals, three world club challenges and two challenge cups. the 41 year old had lived with mnd since 2019, and spent recent years raising awareness of the disease. here sjohn maguire. two, one. cheering and applause. it s the moment that rob burrow was determined would go ahead today without delay. a spade went into the ground for the first time to create the motor neurone disease centre in leeds that will bear his name. along with rob s family was his former team mate kevin sinfield. between them, they ve raised almost £15 million. some of that money will help to build this centre. it will be rob s legacy. i wish he could have seen the outpouring of love. i think we all lose special people,
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Sport. he played the leeds rhinos more than a00 times, winning absolutely everything it is possible to win, in their famous blue and amber. it is a club that has very much taken into heart over the years not just much taken into heart over the years notjust because of the 17 years he spent here as a player but also the last four and a half years, after his diagnosis with motor neurone disease, two years after he stopped playing in 2019 was when he had that diagnosis. it is reflected in some of the sentiments here. someone has written on this shirt, a legend on the pitch, a hero off it. that sums up the pitch, a hero off it. that sums up what the people of leeds and the people of this club specifically think about rob. his legacy will be an incredible one, notjust what he did on the pitch behind me there, but because of what he has done over recent years to raise awareness of motor neurone disease, to make those documentaries, to show us what daily
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