Pope for England manager...

Everyone knows that when you're the boss and things go wrong you have to stand up and be counted, take it on the chin, the buck stops with you. If you don't, if you try and weasel your way out of the line of responsibility, divert attention or try to offload blame onto others then you deserve nothing but contempt.

For those of us who were (naively) optimistic about England's chances in their world cup match yesterday against Germany we understand how things can go wrong, horribly wrong, the team performance was poor, out gunned and out classed by a younger, fitter and more intelligent German side who made us look amateurish. All in all we had a terrible tournament, never looking like a cohesive team and only just scraping through to the knock-out stages. We should find out in the next day or two if our well paid Italian Manager Fabio Capello is a man or a weasel, apparently he has already said that he won't resign yet; it seems hard to see how he could get more out of the England team than he did on the biggest stage possible, and that was not much at all.

Another leader was responding to bad performance yesterday, although "bad" would be somewhat of an understatement when applied to the kind of wrong doing perpetrated by this particular "team". The leader in question is the Pope who called the recent raids by Belgian police on various Catholic owned properties "deplorable". This doesn't seem like the response of a good leader, rather than tackle the substance of the police investigation, i.e. the sexual abuse visited on children by Catholic priests in Belgium the "boss" of the Catholics is attempting to weasel his way out of responsibility, rather than condemning the crime he is complaining that the police are trying too hard to solve it, diverting attention by accusing them of a "secular conspiracy". Instead of offering full cooperation with a legal criminal investigation and giving access to all the *secret* files he's attempting to offload blame onto the very people trying to get to the bottom of the injustice, the people working for the victims.

According to the Pope (and as per usual) all of this is an anti-Catholic conspiracy perpetrated by secular governments and Dan Brown (WTF?), clearly the squirming commentary being excreted by the Vatican boss is embarrassingly inadequate and lacking in imagination, in fact, just like England's back four.