IT WOULD be remiss to not comment on the bizarre to and fro of Lawrence Vigouroux this week.

From an outside perspective, the goalkeeper deciding to pay his fine for lateness in coppers is definitely amusing. As much as the word ‘banter’ has become a bastardised shadow of its original meaning, Vigouroux’s actions might just about qualify.

In the halcyon days of the 1990s, when Paul Gascoigne was leading football away from its pariah status of the decade previous and into tabloid glamour with a cheeky smile and a pair of comedy fake breasts, Vigouroux’s stunt might have raised a wry smile and slap on the wrist from ‘the gaffer’.

In Swindon Town’s current mysterious chain of command, it would not be surprising to me if the keeper might well have been the subject of a figurative and literal Power struggle.

Let us make one thing clear: Vigouroux was sent back to Liverpool for his actions. This was not the Advertiser saying so but the BBC, the club’s de facto press office, who Town chairman Lee Power recently described as the most trusted media outlet in the world.

The keeper’s loan agreement may not have been terminated, but at that point, he was not welcome at the County Ground.

Who made that decision to banish the bad penny? Power said he was out of the country, so it can only have come from Mark Cooper.

Power is the man who deals with the transfers, Cooper works with what he is given. With the chairman facing the option of having to bring in another keeper who can fit into Town’s style, or find a route back for the one they already had, the choice was obvious.

Vigouroux returns after apologising to the squad, but at what cost (more than 5,000 pennies)? Having chosen to make an example of a young stopper, has Cooper been overruled, if not undermined, by Power?

Perhaps that is reading too much into the situation, but given the confidence of the Swindon side is currently as fragile as Nathan Thompson’s groin, I doubt it needs any more poking.

Swindon will have to move on from this episode quickly and they are fortunate to be travelling Blackpool this weekend. The Tangerines are perhaps one of the few clubs in the league who have had more off-field headlines than Town of late.

Given he took to iPhone Notes this week to pen a contrite apology, who would bet against Nile Ranger cropping up at some stage of the trip to Bloomfield Road?

There is an example of a man who did not make the most of his second chance.

You hope for the sake of himself and Town that Vigouroux is as grateful for his reprieve as his own social media apology made out.