John Burkhill pays respect to refereeing legend Uriah Rennie.

John was one of countless people who showed up to Uriah's funeral at Sheffield Cathedral to honour the trailblazing local hero.

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00:00I've known him for many, many years, probably the last 30, 40 years.

00:04He's done a tremendous amount of work for Macmillan.

00:07Any charity, he was involved.

00:09He was a great, great bloke and a great friend.

00:12I'm so proud to be his friend.

00:14Really, real character he was, you know.

00:17A real darn to work Sheffield, a good referee.

00:20He was a great bloke, he really was.

00:22Three words.

00:24Words are very hard to say to his family.

00:28I'll miss him, Sheffield will miss him.

00:30He should have been top priority, I think Sheffield.

00:33A great, great man.

00:34What he's done for us at Macmillan, I can't put into words, you know what I mean.

00:39I had to come up today, no matter what, Alex.

00:42A great, great man.

00:44A great man.