Be chivalric instead of a fool, Trap

Watching the decline of Giovanni Trapattoni as Ireland manager brings to mind that scene in the 1968 film The Lion In Winter which Toby and Josh popularised in The West Wing by referring to it in a memorable scene of their own.

The sons of King Henry II are on the eve of being executed by their father, played by Peter O’Toole. As he and death approaches them in the dungeon, one of them says to his brother Richard the Lionheart: “You chivalric fool, as if it matters how a man falls down.”

Richard, played by Anthony Hopkins, replies: “When the fall is all there is, it matters.”