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Bobo32 · Mr Hat

Capello for England manager. Great news. He is a born winner and will extract the best from an over-hyped England team.
Good news for England

Luftwaffles

Just 10 months to England's next competitive match

Seriously, some of the existing squad will struggle to move away from the long, aimless, aerial balls that are currently excuses for passing.

Capello and his three Italian assistants will need the patiece of Job.

Bobo32

Who is this Franco Baldini dude?

saviola

To help with the language problem, I've sent Fabio a book (well, it's more a sheet of paper) providing him all the key words and phrases he'll need for the English players/media. It contains the following:
"Hoof"
"Run"

And, to cover all post-match interviews:
"I still believe I have what it takes to do this job."

Tuten K

good one

Dave

And the addendum: 'David Beckham has a future'...

Although I keep telling myself it's unlikely, I can't help thinking that given Don Fabio's regard for Beckham by the time England start the qualifiers next year Beckham will be back as Captain and playing in Europe if not the Premiership.

What else - a side without both Lampard and Gerrard?

Robert Green as no. 1 goalkeeper (with Carson as no.2)?

Rio Ferdinand looking even more stunned than normal when he's told he needs to give 100% in every game, even if it is a friendly, or he'll be out?

And what, I wonder, will he make of Peter Crouch?

ForzaFiori

It's official now. 4 and a half year deal starting on 7th January.
No Englishmen in the coaching staff either, well for now anyway.

Liam

Excellent appointment. The present England side is far from world class, and therefore to achieve anything it needs a world class coach, and Capello is that man. He's capable of getting the best out of players, he's got great tactical knowledge, even though his overly cauthious style frustrated me in the Champions League during his time at Juventus, and most importantly he rarely fails to win. 9 league titles in 16 years is phenomenal, and I doubt there's anyone at the top level who can match that record.

poochiem

yeah - its got me worried to tell you the truth. he's a genuine manager not all bluff and cliches like the english men touting for the job - and he's no lucky Sven. Could he make something of the ragtag bunch of self-important onanists? If England ever got to a major championship final would we ever hear the end of it?

Well he'll have the freedom of a 4 year contract so I can see Rio Copacabanned out the door straight away. Beckham the comedy coathanger will follow as quickly as his old man legs will let him and they can both carry Mickey Mouse Owen with his crumbly muscles with them.

I'd suggest he gets the u17 england team and brings them all to italy for the 4 years. brings them back for Euro 2012 qualifying

www.calcioitalia.co.uk

Capello fears England nightmare

Dave

Does RAI have shows called 'dementia' and 'incontinence' to complement the show with the name 'dribbling', I wonder?

Liam

poochiem

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/dec14a.html is Domenech a twisted bitter little man or no?

Duncan!

Will Capello try to get English passports for Delveccho and Emerson?

saviola

I'm pleased to see that Paul Ince's shocking interview on Football Focus, concerning Capello, has not gone unnoticed. I appreciate that many share his opinion that the manager of England should be English, but the specifics of his argument were an embarassment. There was the predictable red herring concerning the language barrier, a claim that England would have won WC '98 under Hoddle had we not lost on penalties, but most notable - and I'd be worried were I an (or maybe 'the') MK Dons fan - was his response to the fact that Capello has won so many trophies: "Titles don't mean anything, to be fair". Even dopey Mark Bright, who would probably try and agree with his interviewee if the latter asserted that the world was flat, was in disbelief. The prat's performance has been most appropriately summarised by F365 today - "Ince...sounds like a man who has no brain in his head".

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verno

I don't know what these people want. Who did they think was going to lead us to international glory - Coppell ? Dodgy 'Arry Redknapp ? Stuart Pearce ? In an ideal world we'd have quality English managers lining up for a crack at the job but this isn't an ideal world and if Capello actually teaches the England team how to play everybody will forget his nationality.

Paul Ince styled himself 'The Guv'nor' thus he is a twat and shouldn't be given a moments attention.

Dave

Don't forget that not only did Ince style himself 'The Guv'nor', but that he attempted to impose this view of his indispensible nature upon Siralex. Who promptly sold him to Inter.

Which suggests that Ince's judgment of managerial qualities might not be as sound as he thinks.

Duncan!

He still looks like a young OJ [da glove] Simpson!

Giovanni Lavafiume

Does he still talk as if he has a very heavy cold/snorted Columbia's annual cocaine output?

blackandblue

Considering he's probably one of the last English players to have actually played in Italy and may still have a smattering of the lingo, he might have talked himself out of a backroom job with England. Eejit. It's not like he's done a bad job with any of the teams he's managed so far. He's moving up the leagues and continuing the good work. As usual in his career he's engaged mouth before brain

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What's David Platt up to?

Mawang

Paul Ince = f*cktard

Edited by Dave - Agree with the sentiments regarding Ince, but for consistency under the site T &Cs, I think I have to edit this slightly...

blackandblue

Something wrong with the spelling, Dave?

Dave

Sort of....

(The 'u' was included in the original, and since the 'f' and 'c' words are the only two automatically blocked, it would appear that this means that derivatives should be edited also. I think ...

).

Dave

Oh dear....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7191614.stm

Bracey

Bobo32

Doesnt look like news to me. Noone will remember it in 2 months.

p.s. unless you've got a very good memory

Bracey

saviola

Bravo to the England fans who started booing when the team finally managed to string a few passes together last night. It's they, not Capello, who are the real intellects of the game.

blackandblue

Totally agree, Saviola. More bravos to the commentators who seem to believe that England should have changed overnight into some kind of wonder team under Don Fabio. They should be pleased they got a win! It's the same group of players that did for McLaren so why people believe Capello is suddenly going to turn them into the Brazil of Western Europe I don't know

. And it particularly irks me that they allow someone like Graham Taylor, for pete's sake, tell the world what the new England manager is doing wrong and how to put it right. The turnip did alright for England, didn't he? Not.

Michael La Viola

Is it just me, or was David Bentley actually quite average the other day? I don't know why everybody is raving about his performance, I can only assume Motty / Lawro were praising him and people were stupid enough to pay attention.

I listened to the FiveLive commentary, always a better bet.

Dave

Some of his crossing was below his usual standard, but I thought he did OK - seemed to have a bit more awareness of what he was trying to do than Aaron Lennon usually does when occupying that berth.

For what it's worth, the entire BBC TV set of pundits thought he did pretty well. I thought that they slightly oversold how well he'd done, but he he put in quite a bit of effort. IIRC, he was either winded or clipped with about 15-20 minutes to go, and he wasn't quite the same after that either. I thought it was a 'OK, shows promise' performance.

I also suspect that his ability to find an England player with most of his passes in both halves earned him brownie points - the rest of the side appeared incapable of doing this in the first 45 minutes, and I assumed that the rather more capable passing performance in the second half came after Don Fabio had reminded them that the idea is to give the ball to someone in the same coloured shirt.

Unfortunately, as noted above, many members of the crowd (presumably including all those who felt it necessary to wreck the silence) were most dischuffed to discover that Capello apparently wishes to abandon the 'hoof it upfield while running around at 90mph' approach that has brought England so much success over the last 30 years...

Sir George

What interests me is where the FA go next for England manager. Given that international managers necessarily have negligible influence on the way the team plays, it obviously doesn't matter much, but now they've gone for "the best manager ever" and paid him £7 million a year what's next? They usually tend to go for complete opposites, so the clever money surely has to be on a joint appointment of Bryan Robson and Sammy Lee.

Giovanni Lavafiume

You've been remarkalby subdued over all the recent Munich hype Sir George. Was it you letting off bangers outside Old Trashbin on Sunday?

Sir George

Well I've learnt a little decorum. Just because Manchester United fc was built on the dead of Munich air crash as the myths of the tragedy have been used cynically for commercial benefit and to line the pockets of people within the club doesn't mean we shouldn't mawkishly rake over events yet again and condemn anybody as a moron who doesn't buy into the myth. Certainly we should ignore the fact that it was Busby who pressurised the pilot to try to take off because he was desperate to get back when it was obvious that it wasn't safe to do so and that Busby treated some of the injured players in the crash badly, but rather glory in the later Man Utd teams that were built from the cash generated by the myths. We should also ignore the fact that the club has treated unfit survivors and families of the dead abysmally, frequently not even showing the courtesy of informing them of various schemes to cash in on the memory of their loved ones. No, what I've learnt is that the proportionate reaction is to praise Man Utd to the hilt for "rising from the ashes" and condemn Man City fans as morons for booing the whole charade before they've even turned up to the game.

So yeah, you could say I've gained a little perspective on the issue.

Coincidentally, my mother-in-law was very good friends with Duncan Edwards and Tommy Taylor. Go figure!

Giovanni Lavafiume

Good God! You've got married?