Maybe I'm in the minority, or even in isolation. But just read PL's 'piece' in LT, an for me he says it just exactly as I view it.
Venkys are the prob and he doesn't/didn't buy into it. With that whilst saying the supporters don't deserve that sort of 'treatment'.
That doesn't make him a wonderful guy per se, but in my mind at least doesn't position him a devil, or turncoat in the way many view.