As you may or may not have noticed, the banning of playa2 seems to have included the back door, as martin had mentioned playa2 already went through the "back door" after being banned at least once before.
If you're truly bored, you can review his last couple of threads and see he was getting a bit pathetic, going off the scale on the drama emperess meter. When you start threads and then respond to yourself over and over again, you know you've overstayed your welcome.
That, and the whole Michael Sams witchhunt thing was a bridge too far for our devoted and brilliant UK ownership.