Burrow answers celebrity questions in posthumous podcast

Rugby league fable Rob Burrow answers questions from sporting icons successful a caller podcast, which was recorded earlier his decease from centrifugal neurone illness (MND) successful June, aged 41.

Award-winning audio bid 'Rob Burrows Seven, Meets...' is returning for a 2nd bid with the precocious Leeds Rhinos subordinate interviewing a caller big of sporting icons.

However, successful the archetypal episode, disposable present connected BBC Sounds, it is Burrow's crook to reply questions enactment to him by celebrities who featured successful bid one. He tells equestrian Zara Tindall astir the champion pranks helium has ever played, including hiding prawns successful a team-mate's car.

Burrow besides regales Tindall's husband, erstwhile England rugby national planetary Mike, astir times erstwhile his eye-gaze instrumentality has "gone rogue" and started speaking successful explicit language.

Plus, helium reveals to erstwhile Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand wherefore Jamie Peacock was his toughest team-mate.

During a 17-year playing vocation with Leeds Rhinos from 2001-17, Burrow won 8 Super League Grand Finals, 3 World Club Challenges and 2 Challenge Cups. He was diagnosed with MND successful 2019 and went connected to go a large fundraiser, earning a CBE this twelvemonth and inspiring galore with his stoicism and positivity.

The remaining episodes successful bid 2 volition beryllium released connected Thursday, 26 September.

Burrow tells Olympian Tindall helium has "never truly played a prank connected Lindsey", but had pranked a fewer team-mates. He reveals helium erstwhile "hid prawns each implicit the inside" of a team-mate’s car, arsenic good arsenic spraying their hubcaps pink.

"I inactive don’t deliberation he’s forgiven me, information beryllium told," helium jokes.

He goes connected to accidental the biggest prank helium has ever played was astir apt the clip helium "nicked a team-mate’s car keys," and "put insubstantial cuttings successful the aerial vent of his car".

When Burrow’s team-mate got into his car aft grooming and switched connected the fan, cuttings came "blasting out", filling the vehicle.

After losing his dependable pursuing his MND diagnosis, Burrow communicated via a instrumentality called an eye-gaze. The instrumentality tracked the question of his eyes arsenic helium looked astatine words and past spoke them for him.

However, the Yorkshireman told erstwhile Bath subordinate Mike Tindall that determination had been times erstwhile the instrumentality had “gone rogue”, with embarrassing consequences.

“It usually happens connected unrecorded TV,” says Burrow, explaining that, “the lads successful my WhatsApp radical volition often nonstop maine rude jokes” and the eye-gaze sometimes “speaks them out”.

“I person to beryllium cautious what buttons I press, particularly erstwhile the kids are around,” helium says.

Ferdinand joined the podcast to inquire who was the toughest team-mate Burrow had played with, arsenic good arsenic the toughest hostile helium had faced.

“My hardest team-mate was Jamie Peacock,” says Burrow. “He would ne'er instrumentality a backwards step. He was mentally pugnacious and incredibly hard-working.”

It was announced past week that erstwhile Great Britain skipper Peacock volition beryllium inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame adjacent month.

The 46-year-old erstwhile guardant made 57 appearances for England and Great Britain and won 9 Grand Finals with Bradford Bulls and Leeds Rhinos.

As for his toughest opponent, Burrow names erstwhile Salford Red Devils prop Adrian Morley, who represented Leeds, Bradford, Warrington, Great Britain and the Sydney Roosters implicit a 20-year vocation betwixt 1995-2015. The Salford-born subordinate won the 2005 Super League rubric with Bradford and 4 Challenge Cups - 1 with Leeds and 3 with Warrington.

Burrow describes Morley arsenic “bulldozing” his mode done Super League and the National Rugby League successful Australia, “forging a estimation arsenic 1 of the astir uncompromising, hardest squad players to ever grace the game”.

His 11 suspensions successful the NRL “tell you each you request to cognize astir Mozza’s attack to the game”, says Burrow.

Following his MND diagnosis, galore were inspired by Burrow’s positivity successful the look of adversity. He tells erstwhile England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson that this mindset came from his parents.

“My dada would ever archer maine that I was the world’s top subordinate and however arrogant helium was of me,” says Burrow.

At 5ft 5in and conscionable implicit 10st, Burrow was among the smallest men successful Super League, but made a virtuousness of his pace. He says rugby taught him resilience.

“In my aboriginal career, I was told I would ne'er marque it arsenic I was excessively tiny to play rugby," says Burrow.

"That made maine much determined. I ever accidental it’s not the size of the canine successful the fight, it’s the size of the combat successful the dog."