Tag: FA

As the feed from the BBC News channel switched to the FA’s press conference room, the greatest surprise was that the media hadn’t hastily constructed a gallows.
Certainly Fabio Capello must have felt he was about to be read his last rites by the assembled hacks, one of whom pathetically asked whether he thinks he is [...]

It’s all over. Our expectations dashed, our hopes shattered. But we should have seen it coming shouldn’t we?

So who’s fault is it? Does the buck stop with Capello and his tactics? Are the players and their egos the problem? Should the FA be overhauling English football? Was it Vanessa Perroncel and her charms?

You decide…

England’s embarrassing mauling at the hands of Germany has left us yet again feeling unfulfilled at the World Cup.
Yet no matter how much we pay foreign coaches to come and sort out our brave boys, nothing seems to change. Something bigger is wrong in English football.
Here is a list of seven things that will [...]

So let’s all sit down, take a deep breath, consider all the facts and then….ah, stuff it, let’s just get rid of the Italian.
England were completely, utterly, embarrassingly destroyed by Germany. 4-1. Or, 4-2 if your name is not Jorge Larrionda, but that’s for another post, another day.
The simple truth about this match was [...]