Martin Samuel, in his column for the Daily Mail, gives his take on Martin Johnson's resignation.
"The famous beetle brow furrowed a final time as Martin Johnson discharged his last patriotic duty for England. Resignation in the air, resignation on the page, resignation in his eyes.
He was given the opportunity to blame the boss sitting by his side, to blame his players, to spread the taint of failure across his staff. He chose instead to stand alone.
'You put someone in charge of it,' he said, 'they're in charge of it.' And in that brief but all too typical assessment - an upmarket version of his self-mocking mantra, 'It is what it is' - Johnson accepted more responsibility for England's wretched World Cup than any of those around him."
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