Garibaldi Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:08 pm
Wait a second, though, if you take this particular eventout of the question, the general personality of the guyis significantly more humble and down to earth than most other top players. You don't see him being a press-hogging, sensation seeking tosser like most of them - he generally keeps himself to himself.
Total arsehole is the last thing I'd think of when describing him.
This situation - wasn't there, he's admitted throwing the punches and we only have the reported versions of events to go off where he says:
I got permission to change the music, he stopped me agressively, when I went to talk about it I thought he was going to go for me so I hit him
and the other guy says:
I stopped him from changing the music, I got shoved by someone and when he came over I thought it was him and was annoyed, then he hit me
..which suggests two cases of mistaken understanding of a situation combined with booze which led to an agressive confrontation. Yes, he hit the guy, at least a community service punishment would have made sense - time with underpriviledged kids or suchlike - but working bars I've seen so many cases were a situation like that combined with a few drinks has led to agressive confrontations.
End of day, generaly comes across as an OK guy, maybe a prison sentence would have been OTT, but shouldn't have got away scott free.