Steve Prescott MBE

Dozen Wicked Words

I couldn't usually give a monkeys about the whole outdated honours thing but any recognition for Steve Prescott must be a good thing. To say sportsmen are "brave" is often overused, but I think its a richly deserved title for Prescott.

Great effort, one the RL community have acknowledged for some time, good to get some wider acknowledgement.

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Paul Tergat

Prescott was a class player. Used to think he was the best in the business for a while. Don't know too much about his work outside of the game to be honest but it's nice to see RL players recognised in some way.

toomevara

Whatever he's achieved on the field, surviving the exceptionally rare and aggressive cancer he's had and engaging in the charity/foundation work which he does is little short of a miracle.

As a healthcare professional, I can tell you that the guy is a medical freak and he definitely falls into the category of sheer triumph of the will over brute medical fact...not to put too fine a point on it or be too brutal about it, but they guy should be six feet under a long, long time ago...but then thats RL players for you, never know when to bloody lie down...!

Brilliant honour for the man and his family, friends and supporters. Long may he continue making eejits out of his doctors.