Kevin Sinfield's latest fund-raising challenge

[Futtocks]

 

[Damien]

Another unbelievable challenge, its pretty hard to grasp even doing something like that. Good luck to him and I hope he raises plenty more money.

[MattSantos]

Aye. Good to see, though i reckon this is his last.

 

[Gerrumonside ref]

True superhero 

[moorside roughyed]

The guy is an absolute legend is "Sir Kev". As a fellow Oldhamer myself I'm so proud of what he's done for such a fantastic cause. When you see him with Rob there's true friendship there. What a guy he is. Get him knighted. Oh,and a legendary player too.

[Damien]

Fair bit of traveling involved too:

 

[Damien]

This morning on BBC Breakfast:

 

Edited November 8, 2023 by Damien

[Futtocks]

Yesterday, inspirational words after finishing day 1 in York. He's in Cardiff today.

 

 

[Futtocks]

Just a reminder of the donation link: https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/kevin-sinfield

Quarter of a million raised so far on Day 2.

[Morris Wanchuk]

Travesty the guy has not been knighted already, especially with some of the establishment non entities sporting the title. 

[moorside roughyed]

Go Kev. Why this gentleman hasn't been knighted is beyond me.

[Futtocks]

Would you accept a title from the current regime? It would always have a taint of corruption, deserved or not.

[EggFace]

28 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Would you accept a title from the current regime? It would always have a taint of corruption, deserved or not.

Very true.

[RigbyLuger]

He doesn't need a title for what many already think of him. Politicians following through on their promises would be a more fitting reward.

[Dunbar]

9 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Would you accept a title from the current regime? It would always have a taint of corruption, deserved or not.

Can't agree with this at all.

If Sinfield received another honour under the current government, no way would I consider that honour to be tainted. 

It would always be, and only be, associated with his achievements. 

[The Masked Poster]

5 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

Can't agree with this at all.

If Sinfield received another honour under the current government, no way would I consider that honour to be tainted. 

It would always be, and only be, associated with his achievements. 

Absolutely agree with you. Whether Sinfield would accept such an award is purely up to him.
But to suggest that it would be implicated in any form of corruption or anything sinister, based purely on that posters political persuasion is in tin foil hat territory. We might as well suggest that the 85 year old lollipop lady doesn’t accept her OBE for services to the community.

Sometimes people really do spend too much time on the internet by themselves. 

[Pricey81]

Went to the Alex to cheer him off this morning. There was a decent crowd there considering it had snowed overnight and was freezing. 

He really is an inspiration and he is right, we should all be a bit kinder to one another.

I'm a 42 year old bloke with kids and when Kev nodded in my direction as I shouted "Go on Kev" on his way past I was the starstruck kid watching one of my heroes again. 

How he can combine coming across superhuman and totally normal at the same time is one of his amazing qualities. I hope this raises millions. 

[Lowdesert]

19 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Would you accept a title from the current regime? It would always have a taint of corruption, deserved or not.

Everyone would know how well it was deserved though.

He chatted away to no end of people at York and it was bloody freezing.  Champion guy deserving of a knighthood.

[Futtocks]

3 minutes ago, Lowdesert said:

Everyone would know how well it was deserved though.

He chatted away to no end of people at York and it was bloody freezing.  Champion guy deserving of a knighthood.

He's also been doing short fun-runs every day with MND sufferers. Because the daily ultra-marathon just isn't enough, when he can do more.

[Lowdesert]

4 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

He's also been doing short fun-runs every day with MND sufferers. Because the daily ultra-marathon just isn't enough, when he can do more.

Indeed.  He still waits for the promised £50m.

[Hopie]

4 hours ago, Futtocks said:

He's also been doing short fun-runs every day with MND sufferers. Because the daily ultra-marathon just isn't enough, when he can do more.

That's one way of describing it I guess.

He is running a marathon a day (7 in 7) plus the "extra mile" each day that others can join him in, to encourage people to go the metaphorical extra mile to help out a mate.

[Futtocks]

He's running in Dublin today.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/dec/03/lets-look-after-each-other-sinfields-ultra-effort-for-mnd-spreads-the-love

[StandOffHalf]

Kev is a true inspiration. He was on Ireland AM yesterday morning.

Brighton today and ending in London tomorrow.

[LeeF]

On 03/12/2023 at 08:13, Dunbar said:

Can't agree with this at all.

If Sinfield received another honour under the current government, no way would I consider that honour to be tainted. 

It would always be, and only be, associated with his achievements. 

You are spot on plus any honours are technically awarded by the King

[hunsletgreenandgold]

Not sure if this has been discussed on here before, re Sinfield being Knighted and the reason(s) it hasn't happened, but I've definitely read about it somewhere. He was awarded an MBE in 2014 and apparently it's 5 years until you can be added to the honours list again. In 2021 he was awarded an OBE - so if this is true then he couldn't be awarded a Knighthood until 2026. I've just tried googling if any such 'rules' definitely exist but it's not very clear.