From what I was told yesterday, Squarez pointedly refused to shake Evra's hand. Then I watched the incident from a different camera angle. There you can clearly see that Evra drops his hand to a lower level, as if he is half-hearted or unsure about whether to shake Squarez's hand. Squarez does himself no favours by clearly passing to the next player to handshake. BUT, and it's a big but, so I made it so - Squarez may have taken Evra's half-heartedness [if I read that right] as a sign to not shake hands OR [and it's a big or], that Evra's half-heartedness was enough to switch off any desire from Squarez to shake hands.
Remember people, these are only youngish adults, in the glare of the media gaze. I suspect, if they could re-run the initial events from yesterday, they'd be shaking hands and getting the situation over and done with. As it happened, nobody came out of it covered in glory. Squarez probably should have grabbed Evra's hand; Evra shouldn't have been half-hearted with the handshake gesture; he also shouldn't have whipped up the crowd immediately post-match; and tbh, worst of all, Fergie should not have commented on what Liverpool should or should not do with a player. That was astonishingly poor behaviour, and he should know better than to play psychological game points with such a subject.
On the subject of pre-match handshaking, who suggested it in the first place..? It seems to me that the more forced a situation becomes, the less genuine it actually is. Years ago, players did not shake hands before a match. That was left to the captains and officials in the centre circle. And that's the way it should be, if anyway way at all.
[video=youtube;6khijPAmCEQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6khijPAmCEQ[/video]
