Sure, he's walked right into a punch in Iraq, which is, in the purest sense of the term, absolutely unwinnable. He's also played the role of a modern day Nero, fiddling while our Rome burns with educational, economic, and social fires.
And while I care a lot, I'm just one guy. And at the moment, I'm just as concerned with the fate of West Ham United after the sacking of Pardew and Curbishley's slow start out of the gates (6-0 loss to Reading? WTF?), although the 3-0 victory against the Brighton 'Gulls in the FA Cup tournament was encouraging -- need to see more of Luis Boa Morte and Carlos Tevez... God help us, they may be our only hope now.