Cheese rolling? E's damn good!

MATT WINS RENOWNED HILL RACE BY 'BEING AN IDIOT’

- NEAL KEELING

WHEN it comes to his chosen extreme sport, Matt Crolla is officially a big cheese.

And the 28-year-old says his only preparation for becoming a champion was to be ‘an idiot’.

Matt, from Manchester bit the dust in order to be a winner of the renowned cheese rolling competition – by tumbling down a hill with hundreds of others chasing a 7lb Double Gloucester cheese wheel. The world-famous event, which dates from 1826, went ahead despite safety fears.

Matt won the first race. The women’s race was won by Delaney Irving who was knocked unconscious as she chased the cheese. Matt and other competitors hurled themselves down the almost vertical Coopers Hill in Brockworth near Gloucester.