Matt was brilliant at playing football and I am fairly useless. This did not stop Matt asking me several times to play at a works tournament in Birmingham. I kept on saying no but in the end I relented due to Matt's encouragement. I had a great time and I think Matt knew I would.
Officially I was Matt's Line Manager, unofficially we were coffee mates. I first heard of Matt's name several years ago when I was a newly promoted Team Leader and was sat in a crammed meeting room at
We have a key on top of the electricity meter just inside our front door. It's "Matthew's key". As soon as he was old enough to go out with his own key he developed the habit of forgetting his key, so
I began working with Matt in 2001 and because he was such a great guy we became friends straight away. Working with him for all of those years I was lucky enough to share with him his happiest moment