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| "The former Scotland international said he and Isla have become firm friends over the years he has known her." Source: BBC News |
Generally I find the BBC's coverage of soccer and their expenditure on overpaid commentators/pundits to be disproportionate but I take my hat off to 'football legend' Graeme Souness who has completed a swim across the English Channel to raise £1m for charity after highlighting the plight of 14 year old Isla Grist who suffers from rare skin disease Epidermolysis bullosa.
Souness broke down in tears when interviewed on the BBC's Breakfast show as he called it "the cruellest disease out there".
From BBC News: "Souness completed the 21-mile swim as part of a six-person relay team in 12 hours and 17 minutes. He took part in the team challenge, which included Isla's father, to raise money for Debra UK, which supports people with the disease, also known as butterfly skin."
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