“This is the fairytale ending.” Those were the words spoken loud and clear through the broadest of grins by Rob Burrow on the pitch at Old Trafford three years ago this week, moments after his Leeds Rhinos team had won the Super League grand final for the eighth time in 14 years. Burrow, the diminutive scrum half, had been around for all of them.
At the start of that remarkable run of success, the victory over Bradford Bulls in 2004, Burrow had been a 22-year-old used from the bench. By the time of his last grand final triumph against Castleford Tigers in 2017, he was 35 and ready to retire from playing for the club he had joined as a boy. He had played a
