Never met him, don’t know him but he’s old school and has my utmost respect.
A “proper” old school journo - and that is the greatest compliment you can pay in that industry
That means shoe leather, phone calls rather than emails and relationships built up over years and built on mutual trust.
I know all this insistence on facts and trusted, tried and tested sources is alien and anathema to the modern concept of football journalism: ie shitposting, ‘hot takes’ and clickbait
But glad there are still a few dinosaurs about maintaining standards