If I were a director, I would rather employ a manager or coach who had, as the Americans say, the sense to come in out of the rain [or, if not possible, to raise an umbrella over his head] than one who deliberately sits there looking bloody miserable with the rain running from his saturated barnet right down his face & under his collar. It seems obvious to me that the former has far better sense & judgment. So I can't think that the brolly should have done McC any harm, careerwise. Who was it who gave him that stupidly epigrammatic sobriquet, I wonder? Probably some jealous fool who wished he'd had the foresight to bring his own umbrella or waterproof hat.

I still find this macho habit rather pathetic -- & puzzling...

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