YOU don’t earn the nickname Fash The Bash if you can’t handle yourself on a football field. But John Fashanu, a kingpin of Wimbledon’s combative Crazy Gang with Vinnie Jones and Dennis Wise in the Eighties, says the game’s hardmen are “kittens” compared with the military veterans now putting him through his paces on reality TV show Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Fash, 57, also thinks chief instructor Ant Middleton and his team of soldiers would make mincemeat of the beefcakes on Nineties show Gladiators, which he hosted with Ulrika Jonsson.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Fash says: “Middleton is the hardest and most intimidating person I’ve ever encountered. “Vinnie at 3pm kick-off — that’s frightening.