London 2012 blog

That’s me in the photo, on the right, with Seb Coe today, showing off my prize possession – a jar of cinders from the London 1948 Olympic track at Wembley Stadium, which was later re-laid at Eton Manor Boys Club to form the first floodlit athletics facility in the whole of England.

I was pleased to discover that Seb was aware of Eton Manor’s historic significance. And, as he said, another important chapter is now beginning.

For some of my fellow old boys, it was a real lump-in-the-throat moment as that digger tore into the old sports hall which played such a major role in our lives.

But I’m not such a sentimental man. For me, the most important thing is that Eton Manor is once more to be associated with top-class international sport.

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