The big Wes love in does show that people are hugely selective over which players to be very forgiving over and which to jump all over at the first sniff of a mistake though. Probably comes down to ability, but football is so damn fickle.
When Grabban had a sulk and hopped on a train to London from Rotherham the fanbase universally never wanted to see him pull on our shirt again...
.... Naismith seems to have been labelled greedy based purely on speculation RE: his wages and without knowing the ins and outs of his situation. E.g. Would change things if we learnt that we actually want a £1m fee for him regardless of whether he was prepared to drop wages wouldn't it? Only one and a half clubs in Scotland able to pay a fee that big, and the 'one' he could never play for even if he was good enough.
If he had an extra half a yard of pace he'd be the best thing since sliced bread and Webber would lack ambition for not finding the money to keep him.
But with Wes he gets away with sticking fingers up to fans at the traffic lights (got his car tipped over didn't he?),refusing to celebrate against a club he wanted to sign for (Villa) and the deadline day sulk he had in front of the media.
I do forgive him though, because he's our Wes
And we forgive Holt despite him trying to scam us out of an extra year when he knew his legs had gone, before he went and mugged Wigan for a 3 year deal. But we would wouldn't we, because he's the horse.
It has always been like this, I can remember when we sacked Carl Bradshaw for an assault conviction and another Norwich player was involved but we let him off the hook - wasn't it Andy Johnson? (The more talented and more valuable one).
And if the various rumours surrounding Bellamy are true, including joyriding at 3am in a stolen Land Rover, then he got away with murder too
