Discipline in any team is important. Players pulling in opposite directions can destroy unity – we expect everyone to behave with some moral fiber. That’s why John Terry lost his England job. But what do you do with a country like Greece that actually lied about its debt problems?
So what should Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy do? Should they bailout Greece or kick it out of the union? Gordon Brown has been pretty clear: if Greece needs financial help then it should go cap in hand in the International Monetary Fund. But it’s easy for Brown to make such comments his nation is not part of the euro zone.