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On the first day of the rugby Six Nations, amidst all the joy and tension ..... please spare a thought for the great Joost van der Westhuizen.

One of the greatest scrum halves of all time, and a Springbok World Cup winner, he was struck down with motor neurone disease.

At 45, he has just been admitted to hospital in critical condition.

Keep fighting Joost
Good luck to him it's a bastard of a disease. In the same week that MND campaigner Gordon Aikman was taken by the same cruel condition. He campaigned not only for MND sufferers but Care workers, Carers and health professionals too.