I'm with VFE on this one - there does seem to be a lot of holier-than-though pontificating going on. Ground handling of high-performance aerobatic tail draggers is a tricky business at the best of times, and I know some of the best in the business who have had incidents of this type - there are those that have, and there are those that will. Of course, if you spend your life flying nothing but tricycle spamcans, then you won't have to worry - your main concern should be suffering a premature death from boredom
From the footage in the link above, he was clearly hacked off at screwing up, and even more hacked off at having a camera stuffed in his face. The TV coverage is designed for the masses - don't expect a self-critique to AAIB standards in a 30 second sound-bite.