“She’s still alive obviously but you know what I mean. It’s a horrible feeling, I was struggling and Covid just started.“We were still training but there was nothing but training to do.Tom really did give me advice all the time."I could forget about it at training.”Matty explained that the two got on so well but they became “boring people” at one point as they didn’t want to jeopardise their careers.He said that while preparing for events, the two just “did nothing” on some weekends and had the energy as a result to put their hearts and souls into training.Matty said: “Me and Tom just became boring people because we didn’t go out to jeopardise it.“On the weekends I just did nothing.
Luckily we had each other and no fun meant we could just be fully rested and put my heart and soul into training.“The temptation to go out was very high.
I remember during Covid I wanted to go on this date and Tom was telling me, 'You’re not going on this date, do you want to get Covid?'".
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