When he was 28, Robson received a phone call that changed everything. "It was the then (police) vice squad and they said, 'We hear you were one of Lindsay Brown's boys'. I'll never forget the words the girl on the phone used. "The effect on me was catastrophic. "It was only then I realised what had happened to me." The commentator was about to go to New Zealand to cover the Commonwealth Games for the BBC. "I went completely nuts in New Zealand," he said. "We broadcast all day and drank and partied all night - that was my way of trying to drown away these thoughts that were in my head." When he came back, he developed symptoms of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and said he went into "complete mental and physical freefall". That lasted for almost 20 years. By the time he was 40, he had left his job at Sky Sports and came home to Bangor to live with his parents. "I became non-verbal for two years and I was confined to the house - I disappeared," he said. "I didn't see the point in speaking. My head at that time was full of white noise. I had no room for words."