Rob Burrow’s widow, Lindsey, insists “there will never be anyone other than Rob” as she recalls their heartbreaking final nights together. Rugby League legend Rob died on June 2, 2024 having raised more than £20million for motor neurone disease charities, having been diagnosed with the condition in his late 30s. Thousands upon thousands of supporters for the former Leeds Rhinos scrum half lined the streets for his funeral across his native Yorkshire to say goodbye last July to a man whose courage and determination in the face of adversity had made him a national hero. He was awarded an MBE on 2002, before both he and Kevin Sinfield, who has run thousands of miles to fundraise and raised millions in honour of his best friend received CBE honours from Prince William in January last year. Five months later, on a heartbreaking night at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Burrow was hooked up to a hospital ventilator after developing pneumonia and unable to communicate was refusing medication. Lindsey asked: “Rob, I know you’re really tired. Have you had enough?” He moved his eyes to the left - his way of communicating, left for yes, right for no. “I wanted to cry,” says Lindsey, speaking to The Sun as she prepares to release a new memoir - ‘Take Care: A Memoir Of Love, Family & Never Giving Up ’ - honouring her husband and telling her story. “I knew what I was asking and I needed to know that it was really what he wanted. “I just held him in my arms for a long time until he fell asleep. I thought I might howl with the pain but he’d had enough. He’d fought his battle.” The previous evening she had placed a DVD player in his room so they could watch their wedding video together for the final time. As she did so, the couple’s three children - Macy, 13, Maya, 9 and Jackson, 6 - painted painted his fingers with rainbow-coloured ink so they could capture his imprints for memory books. Lindsey, 42, says: “We found a way to make those last hours memorable. “Rob and I, with his mum Irene and sisters Claire and Joanne, watched our wedding video and we teased him about his dancing. The girls were at a musical show they had spent months rehearsing. Rob had indicated he still wanted them to go. “When they came back, the girls and Jackson sat with their dad as he watched a recording of their performances. “It really lifted Rob. He had a big smile, watching the girls on stage, and they came back from the show that night and painted his fingers. Rob was very drowsy but was still with us. He just wanted to spend as long as he could with the children. “He still managed to smile right to the very end. He always had that infectious smile and just set an example to us all — he gave hope to so many.” At present, she gives no consideration to ever potentially remarrying. Asked if she could ever imagine remarrying, insisting: “There will never be anyone other than Rob. “We were childhood sweethearts and had known each other since we were teenagers. There’s only one Rob Burrow, isn’t there? They don’t make them like Rob any more.”