I AM deeply troubled by the injustice of some people being accountable for failure and others seemingly not. I know that in my professional work life, if I were to stuff up, I would be out on my rear faster than Kevin Keegan could say something totally ridiculous.

In one sense, football gives us ordinary folk some comfort in knowing that accountability for failure doesn't just apply to us. Coaches and players seem to have to really perform in order to keep their jobs.

One could argue that professional football management or coaching is one of the harshest working environments you could be involved in, in terms of security of tenure. Recent examples that highlight this well are perhaps Fabio Capello who won La Liga with Real in 2007, only to be sacked, and Avram Grant, who met the same fate after managing Chelsea to within a whisker of both the Premier League title (finishing second after taking Manchester United to the final game), and Champions League glory (losing 6-5 on penalties also to Man Utd).

It seems like a very tough job. Unlike the business world in which many of us work (well... fewer and fewer of us), there appears to be a high degree of accountability for failure.

I should qualify this observation, in that until this global financial crisis, big business was, by and large quite happy to maintain a kind of executive gravy train, where failure was rewarded with multi-million dollar golden handshakes, sabbaticals, and re-appointment. All this was maintained by those who had a vested interest in maintaining a no risk, no fail system (i.e. other executives and company directors).

I may be accused of sounding like some sort of pinko commie bastard for saying this, but I suspect there is some sort of secret Illuminati like society, where once accepted you are on easy street even if you are a complete and utter in-bred tit.

One of the few upsides to this global financial mess, is that Joe Public is now much more sensitive to massive cock ups. Many of these extremely wealthy spivs are now finding it much more difficult to cream off tens of millions of our Superannuation dollars for being very good at self promotion, and very poor at making astute business decisions. Thankfully, the proverbial cows have now come home to roost.

So coming back to the subject of football;

I don't think the game has really had the ‘come to Jesus moment' that the business world has. For every Alex Ferguson, there are thirty Sam Allardyces... (or is it Allardi?). Kevin Keegan once said, ‘you don't get two chances at this level, or at any other level for that matter'. Well Kev, I suspect most of us must disagree.

Some clubs in the EPL love to recycle mediocrity in some sort of vain hope that maybe, this time, the guy will get it right. If I have to hear Gareth Southgate say " I was really happy with the players' commitment today" after yet again being soundly beaten, I swear I'll go mad.

Gareth may be a nice guy, but expectations at Borough are clearly very low. Most EPL managers have been at two clubs and failed in the time he has been at the helm. Plus, he needs to get his teeth fixed, he is as ugly as a bag of frogs...ugly frogs. For some reason it irritates me like Madonna's gap...in her teeth...because it's not like they don't have the money to fix these things.

Sorry, I realise I am being very superficial, but if people can carry on about how pretty Cristiano Ronaldo is, surely I can comment on people who only have heads for radio.

But I digress, in the A-League, I find Miron Bleiberg's nearly iconic stature as a football quasi-genius quite remarkable. Miron seems to make a few bleedingly obvious but colourful observations, and everyone thinks he is some kind of footballing version of Aristotle.

Possibly it's because he possesses such a heavy accent, it is fun just listening to him, much like listening to Tony Palumbo. Miron has actually compared himself to the ‘Special One', as have others, but since when do words speak louder than actions or results? Clearly he has managed to convince Clive Palmer of his qualities.

Of one thing I am certain, there is no shortage of ego in this game. Just once I'd really like to see a new manager appointed, whom when asked in their inaugural press conference if they are the best man for the job, simply gives a Gordon Strachan like response along the lines of , ‘No. I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, "No, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless."; of course Gordon was not serious he just didn't like dumb questions, but I'm sure you get my point.

These days it's all about arrogance and an air of entitlement. In football, like big business, it seems that it's always someone else's fault. P.J. O'Rourke once said: "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."