going back to the remarkable Beccy Adlington…..
She’s achieved all this on £12,000-a-year funding, plus £1,000-a-year from Mansfield council and a bit extra from her parents, and is now hoping to earn enough in sponsorship to pay for her goggles, ‘which aren’t cheap at £25 a pair’. What a star, and on top of that we’ve just had our most successful Olympic 48 hours in history.
On the same weekend that the Premiership returned rattling its jewellery…….