May be he is right, captaincy becomes untolerable like facing an incoming train, especially when team loses badly, even though he was positive during his tenure, media is always negative when team loses.
How a foreigner like KP can talk passionately about Ashes!!! He can certainly carry water for England but how he can relate himself with the emotions of commomn English or Aussie fan with Ashes especially when he let England down with captaincy issue.