Speedo Mick gets hero's welcome at Land's End

"Why, what have you heard, read?"

"Nothing, I just know it".

"You just watch. It's going to be all over the papers", he said.

A super-forecaster, no doubt.

I can only imagine the guts and determination it takes to do what Mick has done 'coz I know I ain't got it!

A fantastic achievement.

I've been following Mick's blog lately – the man is a saint! He's replaced big Nev (sorry Nev) as my all time Everton hero! Super Mick!!

Brent #2. Wasn't Tony Marsh was it?

Mark, I'm too big a wimp to have chinned him.

Each day he has made me smile with his antics along the way. From the fantastic landscapes in Scotland to dancing with the Police, Firemen and ladies in the hairdressers.

He has people smiling and enjoying his company the length of the country.

Surely at least a job working for EitC must follow or is he too big a personality for that now?

Take a bow, Mick, a true Everton legend.

Even better that he's a blue.

Well done, Mick.

Let's get those donations to over ٣ mill and see if the red press give any coverage.

“Surely at least a job working for EitC must follow”.

That's a great idea. How about suggesting that to Everton?

Proper true grit, passion and sincerity, every time. Well done, Mick, you should be made a freeman of the City and you're already part of Everton Folklore.

Well done, Mick, proud to be a Blue Nose!

It's not easy to turn your life around and this guy should be commended and held up as an example.

I salute you, Mick. Well done, sir.

Who draws up the list of nominations? They need a little word in their ear.

A little bit bewildered as to why people would mar it by regaling us with shite like post 2, but I'll gloss over it and raise a glass to a sensational comeback, made by possibly our greatest ambassador.

https://www.gov.uk/honours

He has not only become legendary Nationally, but Globally too, and it can't have done any harm to the brand that is Everton in the process.

Brent, Brian W, Mike G and others, it is a sad but nevertheless true fact, that people generally would rather accept bad news than good news, and it travels faster too.

Mud sticks, and all that, an ill-conceived and erroneous story can do more damage to a person's character, than had it been true and some take an awful lot of convincing that is the case.

Well done Speedo Mick, you will be a hero in my book for years to come!

Makes you proud again to be a Blue.

Speedo Mick Cullen's completion of his marathon walk and Tyson 'Gypsy King' Fury cleaning up of Deontay Wilder.

Both had to rebuild their lives having been knocked down and left on the canvas with demons dancing in their heads from drug and alcohol abuse.

The physical preparation and pain they went through to achieve their respective goals is already on a higher plain than most people are prepared to commit to.

But the greater achievement both have attained for me is winning the mental battle.

For Speedo Mick, walking to and attending Everton matches throughout the season is chicken feed compared to his north to south walk the length of the British Isles in the depths of a British winter.

I cannot begin to comprehend the mental strength that entails to face such brutal elements.

Fury is the same. Ridiculed, laughed at, dismissed as a loud-mouthed clown, he has shown himself to be not only an extremely talented boxer with the ability to adapt to many a different training regime and fight plan, but a hugely entertaining and decent human being.

Huge, huge respect to them both for what they've achieved in the last 24 hours.

His Speedo's will need a boil wash.

Good putting a link to donate, in article. I have just done so from sunny Portugal!

The man must have raised more than half a million pounds since he started on his mission, and he's earned every penny of it by swimming channels, and walking nearly naked in the rain – especially after having the guts, and the will, to beat his biggest fight, and climb back up from the bottom of the well, a truly fantastic achievement!