The beautiful game bewitches all on the European stage

NOBODY and nothing has been immune to the soccer question for the past few weeks. Irrespective of whether the issue was religion, sex, economics, culture, politics, the question was asked: Who do you support?

The Pope, no doubt wanting to avoid accusations of being partisan, said he would not even watch the semi-final between his own Germany and Spain.

Instead, he would pick up the result from someone after the match as he wandered around his summer residence south of Rome.