'If people feel uncomfortable with what happened, I think you’ll find the MND community have been uncomfortable for a long time'
Kevin Sinfield completed the Leeds Marathon earlier this month with former rugby teammate and childhood friend Rob Burrow, who suffers from motor neurone disease .
Speaking on Tonight with Andrew Marr, Andrew asked the ex-rugby player: “There are some people, including some disability campaigners, who were made a little bit uneasy about picking him up and carrying him, what do you say to them?”But, he said: “If people feel uneasy or uncomfortable with what happened on that final point, I think you’ll find the MND community have been uncomfortable for a long long time.
“Unless you knew mine and Rob’s story together, I don’t think you probably fully appreciate why we did what we did, and it was based completely around friendship.”The former teammates entered the Leeds marathon together to fundraise for the condition. Speaking of MND, Kevin added: “This community has been ravaged for years and decades, there’s so many people now that stop me in the street that want to speak to me and tell me that their grandad, their uncle, their aunty, their mum or dad, passed away years and years ago and this has been swept under the carpet. It can’t continue to happen.”every Monday to Thursday from 6pm to 7pm
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