hitmanharding wrote:oliverfennell wrote:As I said, he's always craved attention. For once, let's give it to him! getting utterly sparked out on the BBC is worth our attention! I wonder if he agrees? He was always first to tell us "Ooh, Ricky just called me", "Ooh, so-and-so sat next to me on a flight", "Ooh, I just had my head removed from my shoulders by a journeyman".
Oliver you don't waste anytime going from friend too foe with old pal Spud.
As for name dropping i've read your posts on other boards and your not much better. Are you jealous of Spud getting paid to watch and attend bouts? You are aren't you
Adleast Spud with all his faults ran some good prediction leagues
Regarding going from friend to foe with Spud...
I had never heard of him before I joined the UKBP writing team. He evidently had "history" with a lot of people, but as far as I was concerned, he was a clean slate. I judge people based on my own experiences with them, not on what people tell me. Therefore, I ignored those who slagged him off, preferring to make up my own mind.
As I watched his interaction with certain other people, I began to realise why they had a problem with him. He would insist it was they who had the problem, not he, but when it's 10 against one, should you believe the 10 or the one?
And then, inevitably, there were fall-outs between he and I. These were ALL due to him being paranoid and thinking certain things I said were "digs" against him, when they were not. He certainly said a lot worse to me, and was apparently serious, whereas anything I could have been accused of was strictly within the realms of banter. Let's just say anybody who tells people to "fornicate off" left, right and centre, and questions their professionalism simply because they have a different opinion to him, has no right to take umbrage to what is obviously a bit of pally ribbing about his name-dropping.
I bent over backwards to remain friendly with Spud, because he was an integral part of a site I was very fond of and enjoyed working with, but at the same time it was apparent he was bending over backwards to make enemies with everybody, including me. He would even harm the site to get at people. Prime example: I was covering a fight for UKBP and Ben had a day off, so Spud had publishing duties. I filed the report via email to Spud, and hours later, it still hadn't been published. He was refusing to publish my work as a form of "revenge" for some perceived slight against him, despite this pettyness harming the timeliness of the site.
When everything wents tits up at UKBP - helped in no small terms by a typically public and foul-mouthed rant against a powerful organisation - I emailed him to say I was sorry UKBP had failed and that I wished him all the best in whatever he did next, and that there were no hard feelings. Naturally, he didn't have the courtesy to reply.
Now, as for namedropping, the only way I could be accused of this is due to my prior work for Audley Harrison, but if I have ever mentioned my association with him, it has been strictly in context of a thread that somebody else has started. You certainly wouldn't catch me starting threads simply to let people know I was pictured in FHM, or I had been filmed in a documentary, etc etc. I may also have mentioned interviewing or meeting certain boxers, but again, only in context, and I wouldn't pretend I had any greater involvement with anybody except Audley beyond that of a fan or a journalist.
If name-dropping was Spud's only fault, then I wouldn't care, but it's one of many, and I'm more than happy to give this latest incident the attention he would seek for any other.
