JFK, Muhammad Ali, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, the Beatles, Nelson Mandela… just incredible people who had made an unbelievable impact on the world. I loved reading about them.
So, it was a surreal experience for me recently to be running around various shops in Manchester trying to pick up a copy of Time, because I knew the young man who was on the cover of the latest issue. A young man who grew up in the same part of Manchester as me. A young man who – only six years earlier – I’d been regularly picking up and dropping off at home before and after training.