Rugby League pays tribute to Rob Burrow on the final day of the Challenge Cup

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Rugby league has stepped up to remember Rob Burrow with a series of moving tributes before and during the Challenge Cup final day at Wembley.

Burrow’s name and image adorned a large banner outside Wembley Park tube station, along with his famous quote about being “a Yorkshire boy who got to live his dream”.

Throughout the day in north-west London, the rugby league statue outside the stadium, which hosted its first Challenge Cup final in 1929, was adorned with club scarves and other tributes to the former Leeds number seven.

Burrow, who played in seven Challenge Cup finals for the Rhinos, winning the trophy twice, died last Sunday aged 41 after a four-and-a-half-year battle with motor neurone disease, during which he helped raise million pounds. for charity.

Burrow’s shirt number was projected on large screens inside and outside the stadium, and the hashtag #onerobburrow was regularly displayed on electronic advertisements around the ground.

A perfect minute’s silence was observed before all four finals on the day, as well as a minute’s applause in the seventh minute of each match. As another tribute, the men’s final started exactly at 15.07.