Originally Posted by
The Lone Gunman
During the relatively brief period when I was seeing Peter's daughter (and it only lasted a few months), Welsh club football was in an especially grim state. Therefore, it got little or no coverage on the BBC Wales programme he was presenting. Sportfolio was always heavily weighted towards rugby and Peter seemed to me to be almost totally disinterested in football, so our handful of conversations about the programme were less than cordial. Bear in mind I was a Cardiff City-obsessed punk rocker with ripped jeans and dyed hair at the time, so I guess it's understandable that me being sat in his living room telling him I thought his TV show was rubbish didn't go down too well.
Years later, while I was doing lots of research on the microfilms at Central Library, I was surprised at how good and extensive his early-Seventies reports and articles about Cardiff City were. I think the path his journalism career took resulted in him concentrating almost exclusively on rugby as time progressed, but there's no doubt he was a very good football writer once upon a time.