HATCHET MAN: Why I'm not laughing as Brian Barwick shuffles off over the slapstick horizon

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But Barwick will be missed for his comedy potential when the country's fans look like they will need it most.

As England struggle a bit of comedy slapstick from the Oliver Hardy lookalike could lighten the mood. Hatchet Man thinks there was potential too for Fabio Capello to take the role of sidekick Stan Laurel. He certainly looked clueless last night .

Slapstick comedian

Ousted FA chief executive

PS. One of sports writing's most well-respected scribes claimed today that Lord Triesman 'saw Barwick as lightweight from the start'. The FA's new independent chairman must have been using one of those joke mirrors at Soho Square.