I apologise on behalf of everyone for having a different opinion to some of you. I know how much it hurts you.
We are collectively sorry and will have a whip round for you to have the counselling the damage we will have caused to you sensible souls that will be required.
Or in other words, nothing was bandied about, I love the difference of opinions but don't then accuse those who don't share the same view as only being able to take things out of context, or they 'bandy' things about.
I also disagree with my erstwhile colleague and excellent site writer, JPA, on any distinction between an employee and a contractor. Either way, they are contracted/employed and if you have an issue, you go to your employer and if you still have a problem, your union, if indeed you have one.
I remain gobsmacked at the stupidity of running to a paper like The Mail, and at this sensitive and difficult times, to be talking about being a commodity. I repeat, what do these players think everyone else is? And talking about no integrity, it is just about money. From a player? A group who through the PFA (Oh hang on a minute, they HAVE been consulted shock horror) didn't want to take any reduction to their salaries but think it suitable to talk about the league being financially motivated.
Name me a business that isn't financially motivated?
What he said was not required, is not a rallying cry and as I say, I'd hate to go into battle with this sort of attitude.
I actually spoke to a Villa fan lady who works at Sainsbury today, about this tripe, she laughed as she'd read it. She has been working throughout, she hasn't once moaned that Sainsbury's is financially driven and she is just a commodity. It is ok, because that is the trade off we all take when working, or when employing.
Sorry if that is out of context, bandied about, or doesn't suit anyones delicate sensitivities. And yes, I'm talking like that because - in modern parlance - I feel my feelings have been very much hurt and I will need to take therapy over this. Me being just a commodity in life, and all.