An emotional Kevin Sinfield called on his 'people's army' to keep fighting to 'win the war' with motor neurone disease, in memory of his late friend and rugby ace Rob Burrow An emotional Kevin Sinfield completed his challenge today (Image: PA)

Tearful Kevin Sinfield finished his seventh ultra-marathon in seven days to raise £1m for motor neurone disease sufferers - but told his ‘people’s army’ they must keep ‘fighting’ to find a cure.

The rugby ace said he may have ‘won the battle’ by raising at least one-and-a-half times the cash target he set himself ahead of his gruelling near 200-mile trek across Britain and Ireland.

But the relentless fundraiser told his supporters: “There is a war to be won.”

He said the group of around 8,000 Brits battling the degenerative nerve cond

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