Given the incredible scale of fundraising efforts in his name, it has been easy to forget that Rob Burrow achieved plenty as a rugby league player. On the pitch arguably his greatest feat was his integral role in the Leeds Rhinos side who won the domestic treble in 2015, only the third team to do so this century.
Perhaps, therefore, it is fitting that on the day rugby league comes together to celebrate the life of Burrow at Saturday’s Challenge Cup final, the two teams vying for Wembley glory will consider themselves genuine contenders to emulate the heroics of that Leeds side in which Burrow featured so prominently nine years ago.
