Well well welll... Isn't it funny that Russell put the "blame" on the Team
NZ people over his leaving Team
NZ, and a few years down the track he has similar problems with Alinghi. It seems strange they would both have problems, over seemingly similar issues (Russell not having enough say so over the competition etc). Obviously this is mostly speculation! I don't know all the facts only what I have read... but it does make my interesting bell go off in my head!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2984051a10,00.html