Ipswich legend Marcus Stewart on Motor Neurone Disease: I don't live with it – it lives with me

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I wasn’t even going to ask Marcus.Trying to persuade him to give up his time and go out of his way to do a Sky Sports interview about a Premier League season more than 20 years in the past just didn’t seem right.Not when two years ago he received just about the most devastating news you can imagine. He has Motor Neurone Disease.The cruel, relentless illness that, in recent years, we’ve seen Rob Burrow, Doddie Weir and far too many others fight so bravely. One that claims more than 2,000 lives in this country every year.But I was wrong. Completely wrong. Leaving him out would have been the mistake. He’d have seen it on Sky and would have known he was overlooked because he was ill. It was my job to ask, and his decision whether to say yes or no.He said yes.And so here he is, walking around the side of the pitch at Bristol Rovers’ Memorial Stadium, another of his former clubs and not too far from home, to do the interview.I should say at this stage – the…

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