WINNER of the 2024 Sports activities Guide Awards Kevin Sinfield has devoted his latest award to the late Rob Burrow.
Talking 4 days after Burrow’s dying, Sinfield mentioned on The Bookseller web site: “I dedicate these awards to my little mate Rob Burrow – he was the man that advised me I needed to write a guide and he definitely impressed The Additional Mile. Rob was a really particular man. I want we have been each on the awards collectively tonight and I miss him dearly.”
English footballer Beth Mead, who scooped the Award final yr, returned to take Kids’s Sports activities Guide of the Yr with Roar (Wren & Rook), a guidebook “to encourage all kids to excel, each on and off the pitch”.
Mead mentioned: “Thanks a lot for this unbelievable award. It means a lot to me for Roar to be recognised on this manner. When engaged on Roar, my hope was that it might encourage kids to seek out their sport and fervour, construct their confidence, and obtain their potential – on and off the pitch.”
This time, the Awards have been sponsored by Trend firm Charles Tyrwhitt … and there have been many sponsors of the Awards, together with Virgin Guess, Sky Sports activities, amongst others.
‘I dedicate these awards to my little mate Rob Burrow. He was the one who advised me I needed to write the guide. And he definitely impressed the Additional Mile’
Congrats to Kevin Sinfield on profitable the Bestselling Guide of the Yr award AND Total Sports activities Guide of the Yr @sportsbookaward pic.twitter.com/l6x05yDrqg
— Century Publishing (@centurybooksuk) June 7, 2024
Awards for books prior to now, embody Finest Biography, which included Bobby Moore, the Man in Full in 2015.
Robert Geoffrey Burrow CBE was an English skilled rugby league footballer who performed as a scrum-half or hooker. Burrow spent his complete skilled profession with the Leeds Rhinos, making practically 500 appearances in addition to representing Nice Britain, England, and Yorkshire.
I’m delighted that my guide Roar has gained the 2024 Kids’s Sports activities Guide of the Yr on the 2024 @ctshirts @sportsbookaward It’s great that Roar has been recognised on this manner and to be chosen from a shortlist of incredible titles. Thanks. #CTSBA24 #ReadingForSport pic.twitter.com/bEeaVKtLZx
— Beth Mead MBE (@bmeado9) June 7, 2024
He died at simply the tender age of 41.
That is the primary yr clothes model Charles Tyrwhitt has sponsored the Sports activities Guide Awards in affiliation with the Sunday Instances.
Burrows’s autobiography, Too Many Causes to Stay was revealed in 2021,[65] and gained the Autobiography of the Yr on the 2022 Sports activities Guide Awards.[66] He was a fan of the American NFL soccer workforce the Seattle Seahawks.[67]
On 19 December 2019, Burrow revealed that he had been identified with motor neurone illness (MND).
