Our watfordfc correspondent androofrench was a colleague and close friend of Oli Phillips. Here he pays his own very personal tribute
No amount of preparedness or acceptance of the inevitable can provide a barrier sufficient to control the wave of grief when you lose someone you treasured so dearly for so long.
Working alongside him, reading his copy, listening to how he engaged with people, understanding the importance of facts, accuracy and being thorough. It was tutelage which money could never buy. There are so many anecdotes, but one that immediately sprung to mind when the news of his passing came through was Oli’s loathing of superfluous words in a story.
Then one day he told us he’d been getting stomach cramps and heartburn in the afternoons, so had been to see his doctor, who told him it was either what he was eating or the time he was eating it. We talked and met regularly, and as I grew older and wiser we would share experiences, exchange opinions and ask each other for advice .
I last spoke to Oli a week before he died. Out of nowhere he had mastered the art of video calls, and so that last conversation was visual and audio. I even took a screengrab of us talking. That’s an image I’ll never delete.
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