I broke the story about UEFA having changed the rules on FFP and our subsequent punishment on City Watch. He seemed a decent bloke but then I heard stories about the bitterness of the split between him and the 93:20 guys. Even then I thought it was maybe more a case of six of one, half a dozen of the other but one of the people involved in 93:20 often used to say "You don't know the half of it". But I had no real idea and it didn't affect me so I had no great issue with him.
I did stuff for the 93:20 pod but couldn't understand why City Watch never asked me for stuff when we'd published our accounts and I saw someone else not even connected to City had done stories for the site on financial affairs but thought no more of it.
Then he published a story from a media outlet that was very uncomplimentary and almost certainly untrue and I emailed him to say why it was incorrect and that, even though I knew he was just an aggregator of other sources, I thought he was out of order putting that story out there. I got quite a nasty, self-justifying email back from him which I thought was well out of order and saw, for the first time, how nasty he could be when challenged. I mentioned something to Ahsan about it when I next spoke to him and he told me that was what he was like and that because I'd done stuff for 93:20, that disbarred me from doing anything for City Watch even though I had no personal beef or issue with Stuart Marshall. It sank in then how petty and vindictive he could be and just a few days later I heard about his arrest and charge.
Clearly a very disturbed individual.
