Anyone still feel like defending him?
Yeah, I'll defend him too. He has enought strength in his convictions to stand by his views.
I don't think he has gone about things the right way either, but from my experience working in an organisation whose culture I believe became 'toxic', ignoring the concerns of the rank and file can be catastrophic. Rightly or wrongly he obviously thinks he has a greivance which was not being addressed.
I don't pretend to know if he raised these issues internally first, if he has support from other players (since I've read media reports saying he definitely does and others saying he is very much on the outer) or the validity of his concerns regarding the facilities/resources.
I do hope now though that he feels he has made his stand and the remainder of this is dealt with behind closed doors.