Capello investigated for tax fraud...

"this would never have happened under Silvio Burlesqueconi (sic)" says Capello. Before adding, "this is why I took the job in England anyway. Despite the general population shouldering a massive tax burden the super-rich pay practically nothing." He said this in Italian by the way. Not in his broken English. I don't speak Italian but do speak Spanish so I was just kinda following roughly what he said. I might have invented bits. He then went on "I am from Turin. In my city we are all corrupt fascists and conservatives. Institutionally. Unfortunately this current government hails from further south in my country, where they are all corrupt communists and and socialists. And this is the way of it. When we have a north leaning government we persecute the corrupt in Rome. When we have a Rome government, we persecute the corrupt from Turin etc. C'est la vie. Saysyrahsyrah (sic)"

If actually guilty of tax fraud Capello is guilty of nothing more than stupidity, apart from the crime of tax fraud. The world is full of havens for men of his wealth. A quick chat with an accountant in neighbouring Switzerland could have proved advantageous. He could even have combined watertighting his financial situation with a trip to the Caribbean or the Seychelles.

Why the rich, who are most able to pay, should insist on tax dodging remains a mystery. Presumably it is these same instincts that led them to getting rich in the first place. And staying rich long enough to be called rich. But if I, as socialist and pacifist and general all round nice enough but poor person, have to pay for Northern Rock and Iraq (a combined bill of £3200 per tax payer more or less), I don't see why anyone else should wriggle their way out of it either.