Graeme Souness to get a CBE (yes I got it wrong, not a knighthood!!)
For years, Graeme Souness was renowned as one of the hardmen of football, but his CBE in the Birthday Honours is partly in recognition of a more recent accomplishment. He was introduced to teenager Isla Grist, a girl from Inverness who has epidermolysis bullosa (EB) - a genetic disorder which means most of the skin covering her body is full of blisters.
Souness revealed in interviews he had regularly been left in tears by her battling attitude to life and set about raising awareness and funds for the condition, including swimming the English Channel at the age of 70.
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