Tag: Fabio Capello

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…

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 [...]

So the disaster was averted. The flight home can wait until next week at least. England 1 – 0 Slovenia.

I want to tell you about a very long and arduous car journey my friends and I took recently. It is a cautionary tale of companionship and teamwork gone bad. And yes, it does have something to do with football…