Tony Larkin

Tony has been the head coach of the GB/England blind football team since 1997 and has taken the team to seven European Championships, six World Championships and the Beijing Paralympics. 

The former professional footballer has also worked for the Royal National College for the Blind since 1989, where he currently holds the post of director, setting up the UK's first blind football academy.  

He has been an inspiration to many blind young people and has been instrumental in raising the national profile of blind football and in developing a national blind football coaching network.

Tony was nominated by Stacey Burns, Series Producer of Channel4’s ‘Road to London 2012: That Paralympic Show.’