Perhaps the Alan Ball comment was not a joke about him, but directed at the knee jerk goons who are having a 'Who do you want as manager" poll ten matches into Mickey's reign, and who no doubt would be doing exactly the same even if we were managed by Wenger/ Taggart/ Mourinho etc.
Harty is SCR's Danny Baker compared to the various David Mellors that have sometimes hosted the show when he has not been around.
Stop making a mountain out of Cheri Blair's tits.
I just wonder how many people who are in righteous indignation about Harty also wrote in to Channel 4 about Borat, and his regular use of the word 'retard', or whether they had a good chuckle when it was aired?