Kevin Sinfield to visit Celtic Park in huge challenge in support of MND Community | OneFootball

Rugby League legend, Kevin Sinfield will be making a special visit to Celtic Park on Wednesday, December 4 as he leads his fundraising team for their fifth annual challenge in support of the motor neurone disease (MND) community with the theme of ‘running home for Christmas’.

The week-long challenge will start on Sunfay, December 1 with Sinfield and the team covering over 50km per day, visiting seven regions across the UK.

Each day will be broken down into 7km blocks, the No.7 as always central to Sinfield’s challenge in recognition of his friend and former team mate Rob Burrow, who wore it during his glittering career alongside Sinfield at Leeds Rhinos.

The team will aim to complete each 7km within one hour before the next block must start on the hour meaning the only rest the team will get between each leg is the time spare after they have completed the block.

The challenge will once again see the return of the Extra Mile events from last year’s 7 in 7 in 7 Challenge when members of the MND community joined Sinfield and the team to complete their own mile.

The 2024 Challenge will start on Sunday with a run from Liverpool to Wrexham, taking the fundraising effort back to Wales after last year’s run in Cardiff.

The second day is the longest of the challenge, covering over 60km as the team travel to Gloucester to Bristol, inspired by friends of the team in former rugby player Ed Slater, who played for Gloucester, and footballer Marcus Stewart, who started his career at Bristol Rovers.

On December 3, the team head across the Irish Sea once again, this time to Belfast after last year’s memorable run in Dublin. Day 4 will see the team arrive back in Scotland but having already achieved special memories in Edinburgh and the Borders, this time the challenge will loop around Glasgow, with a special stop at Celtic Park.

The challenge returns to England on December 5 with Sinfield and the team assured of a warm reception in the Rugby League mad city of Hull.

The penultimate day will start at the Head Office of the MND Association in Northampton with Sinfield leading the team to Leicester, where the 2021 Extra Mile Challenge started. Finally, the team will return home on December 7.

Starting outside Old Trafford, where Sinfield and Burrow shared so many memories on the field with the Rhinos, the team will head to Saddleworth to conclude the challenge, back to where the first ever challenge finished back in 2020.

Looking forward to his visit to Glasgow, Kevin said: “Myself and the team are really looking forward to visiting Celtic Park. It will be very poignant for us, we know the work which the club itself has done supporting the MND community over the years, its connection to those charities and of course how people such as the great Jimmy Johnstone were so affected by MND.

“We will be raising funds for MND Scotland and the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation and I thank everyone sincerely for all the support we are receiving.  I look forward to seeing everyone as we go around Glasgow.”

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Any supporters wishing to offer their support and wishes to Kevin and his team on their challenge, are welcome to come to the Celtic Way, Celtic Park at around 9.15am on Wednesday, December 4.