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Football legend Graeme Souness is gearing up for another epic challenge to raise money and awareness for a rare and painful skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa (EB).

Last year, himself and a team from DEBRA UK swam the 30-mile stretch between Dover and Calais, completing it in just over 12 hours and raised over 拢1.4 million.

This year he鈥檚 doubling down and the team are planning to swim the Channel twice and then Graeme will join them to cycle the 85 mile journey from Dover to London.

Graeme got involved after meeting Isla Grist who suffers from a type of recessive dystrophic EB.

EB is genetic disorder which causes extreme fragility of the skin and internal mucous membranes, causing the skin to blister and tear.

Isla said there鈥檚 鈥渘o break from the pain or the itch鈥� and it takes 鈥渁bout five hours鈥� to change all of her bandages.

She has had 66 operations in total.

Graeme has since become the vice president of DEBRA UK also known as the Butterfly Skin Charity.

He said his path crossed with Isla鈥檚 and they鈥檝e become mates, even attending her surgeries with her.

鈥淚鈥檓 on the receiving end of her banter all the time. She gives it to me every opportunity.鈥�

鈥淭his a fight that鈥檚 never-ending.

鈥淚sla鈥檚 fight is on a minute-by-minute, second-by-second, every minute of her waking time, she is in excruciating pain.鈥�

This clip is originally from 5 Live Breakfast on July 23rd 2024.

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