Gary played top level football for clubs such as Coventry City and Wolverhampton when he was diagnosed with MS which ended his dreams and ambitions of becoming a professional football player
Gary travelled to China in the hope of a cure but ended up spending a year in a Coventry hospital and was left to deal with the mental and physical challenges of coming to terms with spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
He is now dedicating his future efforts to helping other MS sufferers.