Surely once an emergency has been declared, one needn't feel excluded from landing maybe slightly outside the crosswind limits if it is the safest course of action?
Therefore, if he was indeed in a very low fuel state, going for a jolly round a visual circuit is the last thing that I'd be doing. On fumes - I'd be landing straight in on 22, and deal with the crosswind.
This sounds like a very misplaced hissy fit to me.