A Son of the Rock

I have no personal, nor indeed passing, interest in whether former Royal Bank of Scotland head Sir Fred Goodwin had an affair or not. The public interest is also hard to see (except in so far as it seems any affair between high-ranking bank officials was against the rules, which would really only be an issue for the bank and the regulator anyway.) Or is the allegation that he was taking his eye off the ball? So consumed with his passions that he wasn’t overseeing the bank’s (ahem) affairs properly? But that wouldn’t explain the other banks’ failures in the crisis of 2008.

[Oh and by the way, I could have stuffed up a bank for the money those bankers were getting. Or, rather, I could have not stuffed it up for a whole lot less. And been happy with my salary into the bargain.]

What intrigued me about the latest Fred The Shred/Bed episode, though, was the BBC’s reporting of it on the television news on Friday (20^th May) when in their pictures illustrating the story they showed photographs of not only Fred, Andrew Marr and others now named in connection with superinjunctions but also that of a footballer who was never named in the piece.

A footballer was mentioned in the coverage but his name was not given. One inference that could be drawn was that the pictured footballer was the one the story was referring to.

The curious thing is that this footballer was not the one I had understood the superinjunction story was about and about whom subtle hints have been dropped in the media recently.

What is going on? What was the BBC up to?

Or have I missed something about the footballer who was pictured? Who was, I admit, involved in a very public stushie some while ago now.