It's time to give rugby league heroes Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield knighthoods when further delay will reek of snobbery.
The clamour is growing after the country was moved to tears by Sinfield carrying his old team-mate, wracked by motor neurone disease, over the finish line at a marathon.
Sinfield’s kiss as he placed pal Burrow back in his wheelchair was an act of love deserving official recognition after the pair have raised millions for research into the disease.
