The Melbourne Cricket Ground will host a celebration of the life of AFL great and motor neurone disease research campaigner Neale Daniher.
The Victorian government on Thursday confirmed the state funeral service for Daniher would be held at the football colosseum on Wednesday, June 10, from 1pm, after it was announced on Monday the 65-year-old had died of MND.
The service will come days after a huge crowd is also expected at the MCG for the annual Big Freeze, which Daniher initiated to raise funds for research into MND, when Melbourne play Collingwood in their traditional King's Birthday blockbuster on June 8.
After he was diagnosed in 2013 with MND, which is incurable and fatal, Daniher devoted the rest of his life to raising money for medical research and advocated for other people suffering from the disease.
