Fabio's Blog 2

Apart from a sex scandal or two - only a matter of time, surely - any Index of Capello's tenure as England Don would have to include his increasing resemblance to a less-than-celebrated predecessor. Let's try it....

Fabio          Sven

Overpaid          Overpaid

Underachieving          Underachieving

Tactically Conservative         Tactically Conservative

Team talks have no effect         Team talks have no effect

Predictable Teams         Predictable Teams

In love with Beckham          In love with Beckham

Designer specs          Designer specs

Fan Derision          Fan Derision

I think that's it - I'm sure there's more

The Redefinition of Sin

Wow! No really, wow! Just when you think the Church of Rome has reached the outer limits of its pompous wrongheadedness (blessing Nazi troops, promoting abusing clerics, welcoming Anglican homophobes and misogynists) it scores a double first for sheer out-of-touch, insulting, breathtaking inhumanity. On Thursday 15th July 2010, the Vatican decreed the "attempted ordination" of women to be a "crime" against the sacrament of the Eucharist. So? So, this puts this sinful "crime" in the same category as the sexual abuse of minors by priests. Categorising sins is a favourite activity of the Unholy Roman Church. When I was a kid being brought up in the faith (Faith - there was only one), I was taught that there were two types of sin - venial sins and mortal sins. The former were relatively minor, the later, as their name implies, were deadly. Examples of mortal sin would include murder, the extermination of Jews in concentration camps and missing mass on a Sunday.  Each carried the ultimate tariff - eternity in Hell. But there was a redemption clause - if the mortal sin was confessed in the confessional or on the deathbed to a priest, the slate was wiped clean. In other words a sincere final confession by Hitler could have saved him from the eternal flames whereas the schoolboy who deliberately missed a Sunday or Holy Day mass and failed to get to confession before being fatally injured in a road accident would find himself condemned to an afterlife of limitless heat in the company of Satan and all the other sinners. Really.

I am not making this up.

Fabio's Blog - The First Posting

Thought I'd get in there before the multimillionaire coach of the so-called England team publishes his memoirs. More to follow. (BTW - spot the spelling mistake)

Bish Bash Botch

Hapless, hopeless or just plain unlucky? Is it just me or do we all remember a time when Anglicanism could be used as a synonym for silent compromise or relatively inoffensive muddle? Then, somewhere in the midst of the Bliar years, along came Rowan. And all hell seems to have broken loose. Straight out of central casting, the bearded wonder in sandals, has spent most of his time in office trying to conjure compromises between rabidly homophobic African clerics, mysoginistic ministers and Widdecombe-style defectors and supporters of gay rights and female bishops. We keep getting told how deeply this theological throw-back thinks but the truth is, he's trying to run an organisation that's been hijacked and hung out to dry. So nice one Row - your legacy could be the eventual end of this pointless institution, once and for all. You couldn't do the same for the monarchy while you're at it could you?