Posted August 14th, 2010 by Franky in Internationals
Although other than the compulsory smug for a ManUtd fan, I tend not to look at other clubs unless it is to admire their managers and consistency of players. I am for example a big fan of Steve Bruce and Roberto Martinez and even think that although lately more embarrassing for his own legacy than anything else, Sparky could become a good manager.
Today though I have to make an exception. Make and exception and have a look at the England Manager, Fabio Capello. First of all though I must say that I am not English but have spent the last five years of my life in England until I recently moved to a sunny Southern-European isle. Of course I did support the English national eleven during my time there and as every fan of a nice game my heart always suffered watching this thing dished to us fans, this almost catanaccio alike game brought to us by Capello. But while I may at times admire the Italian style of the game, mainly for the strategical zonal game which is played in the Serie A, as a true ManUtd fan I would rather lose 5-4 than go home with 0-0. I will take a 0-1 win though, especially if fought out in true ManUtd style and we have more than 20 shots on goal as usually, playing defences of 6-9 players is not that easy. But I digress.
Fabio Capello.
Whatever his faults, the fiercely patriotic Beckham deserved better than to find out second hand that his international career was over – Paul Fletcher for BBC
While the Paul Scholes case before the World Cup embarrassing was, giving the Ginger Prince less than 48 hours to make a decision whether to come out of international retirement and save Capello’s midfield, the Wes Brown case was not less of a shame to England but the way Capello dropped David Beckham was one of the most disrespectful actions I have seen in years.
Many words have already been written over how the England Manager dropped the ManUTd Legend and used his assistant, General Manager Fabio Baldini, to give Becks a heads up about his international career end. In all honesty, while noble, I do not believe that the offer to allow Becks one more game at Wembley, a game to say farewell to the supporters was an honest and meant offer. That was just to make sure the pressure on himself, after the Capello Index, the Brown/Robinson debacle, would not rise even more because in all honesty… he’s a shame for the once proud football nation England.
If only England would play well but saying that the performance against Hungary was anything to write home about would be nothing else than lying. England sucked and a future with Capello certainly does not look like a future with international silverware, full stop.
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Comments (6)
The problem isn’t Capello, it’s the England team, and, even more than that, the media and the public who have ridiculously high expectations. The worst thing that happened to England was winning the World Cup, because the media and fans expect the same again. Football has changed so much. Twice as many teams now compete in the tournament, and domestic football and money has irreversibly changed international football. England will not get a better manager than Capello. Admittedly, he has made some strange decision, as you say, and his usually exemplary tactics have been strange. But he is a superb, experienced manager. People need to realise he can only work with what he’s got. Most of the England team are good international players, but not world class.
I see in the Bulgaria game Capello went back to putting Gerrard in the middle in which he was desparate to play in that position. Capello does make some strange decisions, it is like he is thinking about his reputation all the time. If he had gone to Scholes and asked him to come out of retirement, the team would have benefited from it. Scholes is a superb individual off and on the pitch and would be a great assest to any team, its a pity Capello did not notice these things.
lol.. nice one
Capello has a phenomenal record at club level, better than the vast majority of his peers. I agree he got some stuff wrong at the World Cup, but then it’s an intense, short period of time when mistakes can be exacerbated easily. The press and the English fans are as much to blame at the manager, they need to back off and realise that 1966 was a one-off in a totally different era.
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