Grabben doesn't come across as badly as I expected from reading this thread. He said Coleman barely spoke to him and started subbing him after 70 minutes and he couldn't be arsed with that. Rodwell was quite deliberately made to look bad. "No chance mate" seemed taken out of context. If he's injured, he's injured.
Still, it says a lot about the state of modern football that a second division journeyman striker and a perma-crock who showed a bit of potential as a teenager are both multi-millionaires.
There's a thread elsewhere about falling out of love with football, in which someone brilliantly summarised "we're getting too old for this". I couldn't help thinking of that when seeing 60 year old factory workers from Sunderland having their weeks made or ruined by whether Brian Oveido and Didier Ndong win or lose against Vito Mannone and Leandro Bacuna.