Ultimate switch
Sporting flip-flops have been the hot-button issue this week, but SBW has nothing on Mo Johnston. He was a Celtic footballer who moved to France to play for Nantes. After two years, Johnston held a press conference to say he'd be returning to Celtic at the end of the season. But with pounds signs in his eyes, Johnston had a last-minute change of heart and signed instead for... Rangers. Anybody who knows the history of these two Glasgow rivals, separated along sectarian lines, knows that was not going to go down well. Even worse, Johnston was a Catholic. From the early 20th century onwards, Rangers had not knowingly signed Catholics. Rangers fans burned scarves and threatened to hand in season tickets, while Celtic fans referred to Johnston as Judas. Even his own kitman at Rangers protested by making Johnston arrange his own kit and not giving him the chocolate bars dispensed to other players. That's hate for you.
SBW - Leighton knows
The SBW story has become so universal that a reader says even Newstalk ZB curmudgeon Leighton Smith ran talkback on the subject. The reader also says that not missing a chance for self-promotion, Smith compared it to the situation when he was called into the studio to broadcast on the afternoon of Princess Diana's death, even though it was someone else's shift. Yep, it's almost exactly the same situation.
