I think you will find that it was G&H's regime which did for Rafa, not Purslow.
Furthermore the Board appointed Hodgson as a direct result of G&H's regime's incompetence.
Still personal vendetta's are more fun, aren't they?
So it was Gillet and Hicks who were talking to Maddocks and his ilk and running a media campaign.
Can you please explain how Hicks and Gillet did for Rafa, when they had given up any control of the Club and couldn't even remove a tea lady or a steward never mind the manager. They gave all that up when they appointed Broughton.
The board appointed Hodgson because Purslow sided with the senior players and they ran a media campaign through Maddocks, Bascombe, Durham, Winter and Collymore that resulted in Benitez going to Broughton and telling him what was happening.
Broughton simply had ZERO interest in running a football Club, he was appointed to sell a Club and that was easier with Benitez a man who had already seen off one incompetent CEO out of the way.
He laughably justified this by citing the very media that Purslow had poisoned against the manager. He then allowed Purslow to bring in the lamest of lame duck managers. The key point is that Broughton ensured that the new owners had a cooling off period to bring in a proper manager.
Hicks and Gillet had the square root of diddly squat to do with Hodgson and never even spoke to him until after he was appointed as Manager.
As for personal vendetta's I find it absolutely laughable but not unsurprising that you choose to defend Purslow a man who still has Rafa's blood on his hands.
I would call undermining, blackening the name of a good man and then sacking him whilst he was on holiday with his family the most personal of personal vendetta's wouldn't you.