He is also a nice bloke - based only on evidence gleaned from a messageboard. Yes he did moot the possibility of a boycott but that was on the back of one of the most abject performances of the season and a lot of us were extremely peed off at that point and made some off the cuff remarks that would not have been made at other times - on the internet though they remain for all to see and are not as disposable as most off the cuff remarks are - thus they come back to haunt.