vastman wrote:
Both times he struck me as astonishingly ordinary.
Which he is, and that's probably the reason the team and fans have got behind him.
He used to live next door to my aunty and uncle in the early 90s, at that time he would have been a GB international. In the Summer holidays I used to stay at theirs for a week with my cousin. On one unfortunate occasion I stupidly left my BMX at the bottom of the drive where it was unsighted and Daryl reversed over the front wheel with his car! He came running to my cousins door and was devastated despite me assuring him it was totally my own fault and I knew someone who could fix it. He offered to pay for the repair, even offered to buy me a new bike if I couldn't get it fixed. The next time I saw him after the event he went out of his way to ask me if I'd got the bike sorted.