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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Aaron Bower at Headingley

Rugby codes unite in fight against motor neurone disease

Danny McGuire lifts the trophy, with Rob Burrow’s father, Geoff (foreground, left) and Ed Slater (foreground, right).
Danny McGuire lifts the trophy, with Rob Burrow’s father, Geoff (foreground, left), and Ed Slater (foreground, right). Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Sport has the ability to divide us like almost nothing else on this planet and little sums that up better than the near 130-year feud between rugby union and rugby league.

But occasionally, when it matters, sport can unite us against a common cause like almost nothing else – and how that was proven here on a wet and grey Sunday afternoon which brought the two codes together like never before.

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