Editorial Tuesday 8 January 2013: Football's the winner at Mid-Staffs, circa 2009

Reading through the Mid Staffs Public Inquiry's leading council Tom Kark's summing up, I was taken aback to discover the following text on page 168 (which is on page 42 - they are laid out four-up).

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"When Antony Sumara attended an executive team meeting the day after he started work at the trust in August 2009, after about five minutes he interrupted. He told the team that they didn't have a clue what they were doing. They didn't have a single agenda point which dealt with the main issue of poor performance facing the trust, when this was all, according to him, they should have been talking about. The agenda for the meeting contained an item on the state of the football pitch. Those present, he said, didn't have the right focus".

Didn't have the right focus?

No shit.

There are many amazing, horrible and incredible stories in relation to Mid-Staffs. This one tells us an awful lot, literally and metaphorically.