Graeme Souness to swim Channel for charity

Football fable Graeme Souness is to aquatics the English Channel to rise wealth for a uncommon tegument information charity.

The erstwhile Liverpool, Rangers and Scotland subordinate is doing the 16-hour aquatics aft gathering Isla Grist from the Black Isle, adjacent Inverness.

The 14-year-old has Dystrophic Recessive Epidermolysis Bullosa, a familial information causing the tegument to teardrop oregon blister astatine the slightest touch.

Souness described Isla arsenic "unbelievably courageous".

The TV pundit is aiming to rise £1.1m for the Debra charity, which supports Isla and astir 5,000 radical successful the UK who presently unrecorded with the incurable information different known "butterfly skin".

Souness told BBC Breakfast: "She's conscionable unbelievably courageous, brave and strong.

"It is conscionable the astir horrendous illness and if you are affected by it you indispensable aftermath up each greeting and think, wherefore me?"

Isla has had her information since commencement and has to beryllium wrapped caput to toed successful bandages, which are changed 3 times a week.

The teenager's begetter Andy volition aquatics alongside Souness connected the 21-mile travel from England to France.

The brace are raising wealth for Debra's "A Life Free of Pain" appeal, which it is hoped volition assistance wage to clinically trial cause treatments that could amended the prime of beingness for radical with butterfly skin.

He said: "We request to get connected apical of this information due to the fact that it is brutal."