Williams, who was supposed to bring shame to Harlequins by concluding an independent blood capsule plan, asked for a advice from the Rugby players Association.
They urged him to appeal, to detonate a whistle on the entire plot.
But the club had other ideas. Williams offered a new deal for two years, three years of guaranteed work in the club as soon as he retired and promised to help him build a profession outside the rugby.
He just had to curb the true story. He had to be a teammate again. He had to protect the club, which means many for them all.
The full range of the conspiracy cannot come out, the collusion of the medical staff and the coaches in the club.
“They told me” Do you understand that the impact of this decision, which is about to make? If you advance and show it, Harlenges will be expelled from Europe, and your friends will play the chances of their countries, and Steve Wendy will be hit, and we will lose the shepherds we will lose money, “Williams remember.
“Playing the rugby game was all I wanted to do and felt everything I felt.
“So I was stuck between moving forward and saying the truth and falling on Savi. I didn't know what to do.”
“I took the rap,” Ugo Moni, his colleague at Williams at the time, told Bloodgate. “With the deal that was supposed to be offered, 100 %.”
The pressure was severe.
Harlequins was desperate to contain a toxic scandal. Williams, the banned and brand, wanted to say the truth, explain his actions and save his dreams to Rajabi.
At one point, ask for more money for his silence; 390,000 pounds to pay the mortgage and a four -year contract. Queens refused.
In a statement issued by Queens President, Charles Gilings described Williams's demands as “heavy” and “shocking”. He insisted that “under any circumstances, the financial proposal was not a reward for Tom's silence.”
“I drowned to the bottom,” says Williams. “It was a catastrophic period from a personal point of view.”
Throughout the time, the watch was knocking.
Williams had one month to appeal against his ban, exposure to the public and his career to the right path.
Two days before the window to appeal, an email message in the inbox in Williams fell.
He was not the only person who was thinking of the appeal. The European Cup organizers were not satisfied with the only person who condemned him. They knew that there should be more for the issue.
The chances of a young player from this scheme on his own and his secretly in the narrow and tightly controlled environment for a distant professional club.
They wrote to tell Williams that they were resuming against Richards, Brennan and Shabman. They called him as a witness, and they crossed with him, and if he did not comply, then entertaining the second misconduct.
Alex, the friend of Williams at the time, remembers the wife of now a wife now a wife now, “his face has become white.”
A final summit meeting was called with Harlequins.
Tom and Alex led to a valid house of a club board. Drinks and snacks were placed, but the conversation soon turned into work.
“We used to go around the circles,” Tom recalled.
“Harlequins was telling me, if I fell on my son, because of her desire for a better term, they guarantee me employment in the future, pay some of my mortgage, and pushed me to go to leave and will ensure my girlfriend's work in the future.
“On the other hand, if you advanced and told the truth that they said it will bury the club.”
Flasting, tired and tired three hours after going and forth, Alex's excuse for a break in cigarettes. While she was graduating and prepared to return to the meeting, Tom saw in the opposite direction.
He surrendered. He was fleeing, leaving the country, turning his back to the Rakhbi game, and starting again – anything that comes out of this position.
Alex has not ended though. She wanted to ask another question about the 13 men in the room.
I walked again.
“I remember the surprise on their faces when it was just a stand there,” she says.
I said, “I am really sorry to bother you again, but do you mind that I have for another few minutes? I just want to ask you all one individual question. “
“I went on a tour and I already pointed to everyone and I just said,” Is this Tom's mistake? Each of them gave no.
Tom says: “Alex is human again, because I had had humanity, Harikins collected it for humanity,” says Tom.
“I was in a thorny at that point, and I was ready to move in any way anyone pushed me.
“The person was from outside this narrow environment of the central barrier that could penetrate it.
“What happened was not my fault – what happened is wrong – and made people realize it.”
