I'll put it down to a generational thing....I kind of agree with you but he he had to pick the best players he had.....we would have all done that....but he said that unaware he was being recorded.....which in a way makes it worse...he said what he felt....
Look, these are different times....what he said would have been brushed off in the 70's, 80's and early 90's....but society quite rightly has moved on and comments like "lazy n******" is quite rightly outrageous.