Graeme Souness on BBC Breakfast before his Channel Swim this weekend for DEBRA

"Graeme. Thank you. All my love and gentle hugs. Forever. Isla xxx"

On BBC Breakfast, Graeme showed the team the message from Isla which is embroidered onto his Dry Robe as he sets off with Andy and the rest of #TeamDEBRA to swim the English Channel this weekend.

Thank you for all the messages of support for the team so far.

[pete]

This made me well up but it showed what true frienship is about graham and isla also its shown awareness. Of this desease which we all hope theres a cure for x

[Simpleburger]

Wonderful ! Is Souness swimming the entire 21 mile stretch, or - as reported on BBC - as part of a 6 person relay team (presumably meaning 1/6 of the distance is swum ). I've been very interested in this story .

[neilburns]

I think the name of the charity DEBRA UK, it's obviously like a girl's name and so hopefully that will make it easy to remember and therefore stick in people's subconscious.😉

EB and its full title are obviously a lot more difficult to remember and I wouldn't even begin to type the full name as I would more than likely butcher it.😳

[heyzus]

He never swam the channel, he was dragged by a boat!