About the Author

In August 2016 international centre Kirk Yeaman became the first player in Hull FC's history since the split from the Northern Union in 1895 to earn two Rugby League Challenge Cup winners' medals with the club. A local lad, he had first won the trophy at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff in 2005, but his second triumph, 11 years later, helped Hull to exorcise their club ghost of never having won it at Wembley in six previous attempts. It capped Kirk's astonishing career, fought against a background of dealing with epilepsy, in which he played more than 370 times for Hull FC, reached the 700-point mark in tries, became their third-highest try-scorer ever and the highest-scoring centre in their history. Alongside these feats he became one of only six players to appear in four Rugby League Challenge Cup Finals for the club, played in a Super League Grand Final and made 12 international appearances.