It is a different world. Social media pervades lives and can literally ruin individuals and families. Vickery isn't soft and BTW he hasn't complained. In the past you would snot anyone who knocked your mate and then your mate would finish the job. How, pray tell, can you do that when the cowards are anonymous internet trolls? All people can do now is respond in kind just as Cotch did.
Vickery did the right thing by leaving. He extended his career by a year at least and we picked up a gun in Shia Bolton.