What Hughton and other critics overlook is, that if Bong had acknowledged the verdict, accepted Jay's apology, and moved on, then there would have been no reaction to him yesterday. But, as others have pointed out, he wouldn't let it lie, he continued to accuse Jay of being a racist.

For which he received a much deserved torrent of abuse yesterday. But not for the original complaint, which any fair minded person would agree he was entitled to make about what he assumed Jay to have said.

I do like the fact that Hughton, and no doubt the media, are shocked by what happened, but I'm not surprised. Those living in their bien-pensant PC bubble are totally unable to comprehend how ordinary people out there in the real world are thinking, in their world Jay is a racist who got away with it, and totally undeserving of any sympathy. Any other conclusion is simply unthinkable to them.