Sam Burgess move to union delayed by injury
Sam Burgess is set for an operation on his broken cheek bone which will delay his move to rugby union for around six weeks.
Despite the injury, Burgess became the first Englishman and non-Australian to win the Clive Churchill Medal for man of the match in the NRL Grand Final on Sunday.
He suffered the injury in the first hit-up of the game, clashing with fellow countryman James Graham in a tackle.
“To be honest I couldn’t feel the pain,” he said after a game in which he emerged as a true rugby league legend.
“My head was a little bit dizzy, a bit of blurred vision in the right eye.”
Burgess has signed a three-year contract to play the 15-man code with Bath RUFC.
The rugby union outfit were hoping that he would be fit to start with them at the beginning of November.
That now looks highly unlikely, however.
