Former Lionesses captain Steph Houghton 押し進めるs husband Stephen Darby, 35, in a 車椅子 on 178-mile walk to fight モーター Neuron 病気 - as pair raise £130,000 to 戦闘 illness which ended his career

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Former England captain Steph Houghton was joined by a host of footballing 王族 as she 押し進めるd her husband Stephen Darby in a 車椅子 to raise 認識／意識性 for モーター Neurone 病気, which ended his career.

The 178-mile trek to Anfield, which was led by former Liverpool player Darby and former Bristol City 今後 Marcus Stewart - who both を煩う the illness - helped raise £130,000 for the 原因（となる）.

The three-day 'March of the Day' walk started at Bradford City's Valley Parade stadium on Friday, where Darby spent five years of his career, before ending at Anfield, the home of Liverpool, on Sunday.

Houghton was joined by a number of her former Lionesses team-mates on the walk, with Jill Scott and 現在の England 星／主役にする Chloe Kelly showing their support on the day.

Former England men's 星／主役にするs?Jamie Redknapp and Paul Scholes also joined the walk as they 勇敢に立ち向かうd the 勝利，勝つd and rai n for the 原因（となる）.

Former Lioness captain Steph Houghton 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a picture with husband Stephen Darby, 35, after they 完全にするd a 178-mile trek to fight モーター Neurone 病気, which ended his career

Houghton 押し進めるs ex-footballer Darby in his 車椅子 as they arrive at Anfield to 完全にする the mammoth walk as they raise 認識／意識性 over MND, which he 苦しむs from

Houghton told the BBC of her 感謝 of everyone who turned out and helped raise money in their 企て，努力，提案 to find a cure for MND.

'いつかs you think "oh why us" and "why is it only happening to people like us" but at the same time, we're really fortunate to have a good support 網状組織,' Houghton said.

'But many families don't have that when this illness comes to them. That's the idea of the 創立／基礎 to support as many people as we can.?

'To know how much money we have raised already so far before this event but know how many people have really put themselves out to help and help us find a cure. That's 最終的に the goal that this is a 病気 that is under-基金d and we want to raise as much money as we can to help people all over the country.'?

Manchester 部隊d legend Scholes 追加するd: 'What little support we can give is important to everyone.'

Jamie Redknapp (権利) 提起する／ポーズをとるs with former Ipswich footballer Marcus Stewart (left), who also 苦しむs from the illness

Liverpool 広大な／多数の／重要な Redknapp (left) and Lioness icon Jill Scott (second left) 提起する／ポーズをとる for a picture after 完全にするing the walk

Houghton (権利) and Lioness 星／主役にする Chloe Kelly (left) 提起する／ポーズをとる for a selfie while wearing March of the Day branded hoodies

Darby, 35, who enjoyed （一定の）期間s with Bolton, Liverpool, Notts 郡 and Bradford during his career, retired from football in 2018 after 存在 診断するd with the illness at the age of 29.?

It （機の）カム just three months after he had married?former Lioness captain Houghton.?

Darby began his professional career with Liverpool, rising through the 青年 階級s before going out on 貸付金 to Swindon Town and Notts 郡.??

反映するing on the illness inside one of the 歓待 rooms at Anfield, Darby said: 'MND brings all types of people together.?

'But what is special, is that we are all fighting for the same thing and that's to find a 治療 and a cure.'

He also spoke on the 衝撃 that living with the illness has on his family, 明言する／公表するing: 'It's harder emotionally for them to see the 落ちる. [It's] not nice.'

Stewart subsequently 称讃するd him for 開始 up, 説: 'See for me what you've just said I won't even be able to speak about that.?

'I don't want to. You're braver than I am. I think that but I don't speak about it. Because I wouldn't have been as 勇敢に立ち向かう as you just were.'?

によれば the NHS, there is 現在／一般に no cure for MND but there are 治療s that help to 減ずる how it 衝撃s a person's daily life, with the MND 協会 明言する／公表するing that the illness 影響する／感情s up to 5,000 adults in the UK at any time.?

Darby, pictured after marrying former England Women captain Steph Houghton in 2018, was 診断するd with MND just three months after their wedding

He began his career with Liverpool, rising through the 階級s to the fringe of the first team

The footballer was 軍隊d to retire in 2018 に引き続いて the diagnosis; pictured playing for Bradford City in the FA Cup in 2015

Darby spoke out on how the illness had 影響する／感情d members of his family, while （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that MND is a '残虐な' 病気

It is a rare 条件 that 影響する／感情s the brain and nervous system, 原因（となる）ing those 診断するd with the illness to 苦しむ symptoms of 証拠不十分 in their 四肢s, slurred speech and 負わせる loss. It can 影響する／感情 adults of any age but is more likely to 影響する／感情 people over the age of 50.

支援する in 2019, the former Liverpool defender had also spoken more on how the 病気 had 影響する／感情d his family, calling it '残虐な'.?

He said to the BBC: 'It doesn't just 影響する／感情 me. It 影響する／感情s my wife, my mum and dad, my brother, family, friends. It 影響する／感情s everyone.

'It's a 残虐な 病気 with a horrible prognosis. That's the message we need to get across to people to help move 今後.'

He was playing at Bolton while 熟考する／考慮するing for his football coaching badges when he was given the diagnosis at a Sheffield Hospital.?

The former footballer subsequently went on to create the Darby Rimmer MND 創立／基礎?と一緒に Chris Rimmer, an ex-軍人／修理人 who sadly passed away 予定 to the 病気 in 2022. Before the 週末, their charity has raised over £1.3million to fight the illness.?

In December, Darby had also shed a light the realities of living with the 条件, 株ing pictures of three 長，率いる 傷害s that he had 支えるd after he had 苦しむd several 落ちるs.

He wrote to his social マスコミ 信奉者s to explain that the 病気 meant he was now 傾向がある to 落ちるs and also had two trips to A&E in 2023.?

Darby 地位，任命するd several images online of the 削減（する）s he 支えるd to his 長，率いる, but fortunately 苦しむd no ser ious 損失.?

The ex-Liverpool player was also asked by Stewart whether his mental 決意 （機の）カム from his footballing background, to which Darby replied: 'Yeah defo. Do you feel the same way?'?

Stewart 答える／応じるd during the BBC feature: 'Yeah I do. You know I think that football background of it 存在 an エリート sport, it 肉親，親類d of 準備するs you for what's happening now - psychologically.'

The 51-year-old began his playing career with Bristol Rovers before moving to Ipswich in 2000.?

Stewart would stay at the club for two years before moving to Sunderland. In the later parts of his career, the former striker would go on to enjoy （一定の）期間s at Preston and Yeovil before hanging up his boots in 2012 after spending three years at Exeter.?

Stewart is trying to carry on as normal after his diagnosis 支援する in January 2022?

Stewart 得点する／非難する／２０d 19 in the famous season 20 years ago as Ipswich 安全な・保証するd a 位置／汚点／見つけ出す in Europe

'I think we're used to living in the moment as a player and we live day by day, week by week, you can't look four months ahead, you can't look a year ahead because you don't know what's going to go on,' Stewart 追加するd.?

'So I think for me I can relate to it because that's how it is now, because I live in the moment. I live week to week and don't look at next year, next month, just every day.'

Stewart is renowned for 得点する／非難する／２０ing 19 goals during the 2000-01 season to help newly 促進するd Ipswich finish fifth in the 首相 League.?

He was 診断するd with MND in January 2022 but 明らかにする／漏らすd he had the illness in September of that year.

He recently told Mail Sport that he was in a WhatsApp group with several other former professional 競技者s who are also 戦う／戦いing the illness.

Former Leicester and Gloucester rugby player Ed Slater, who was 診断するd 支援する in 2022, is one of its members, as is former むちの跡s footballer Jason Bowen.

To 寄付する to the Darby Rimmer MND 創立／基礎 visit: https://darbyrimmermnd.co.uk/寄付する/