[Oldgobbin]

I think the second line of the intro to the story, together with the later comments on the Mansfield thread explains "Why now?" My view (and I know you don't agree here BP) is that, whatever our personal feelings, when players pull on a Stanley shirt we should try to get behind them, whatever their previous transgressions - and, as the story hints, there have certainly been transgressions by more than one! I simply tried to express my feelings in what I thought might be an amusing way.