I think I will have to agree that if Des had done that at the height of our troubles, I think that the majority of Brighton fans would thanked him for doing so.
If Des had ranted live on air that Steve Gritt should be sacked, 2 weeks before Hereford, I don't think the majority of Brighton fans would have thanked him at all. That is the parallel you are suggesting here.
If on the other hand he had called on the Board to go, for secretly changing the Articles of Association that would allow them to profit from the sale of the Goldstone with no viable alternative ground then he would have had everybody's full backing.
But of course that isn't what Jeff Stelling did at all. Why are some people confusing this?