I should have said this was back in the nineties so attitudes were slightly different. it was the height of the Sun tabloid journalsim.Well, first off I'd want to know what's a skeleton doing in their cupboard....was it some S&M gone wrong? Or was it looking for food? Was the owner of said skeleton a consensual participant in becoming a skeleton in this cupboard?...Was there some weird sexual stuff?...We can't ask the skeleton obviously.....but we can check to see if it has a smile on its face.
That was the point of my story. As far as I am aware he was a single consenting adult and had done nothing wrong so The Sun was gutted that they had not found an excuse to print the story. The player has long retired and I haven't checked to see if he came out.
Anyway my point was that the media often hang onto to stories and release them when it suits them. I don't doubt that the Mail or the Sun has some juicy Burnham tales.