Fabio Capello - distinguished football manager (and former Italian international), having won many league and cup titles, including Serie A, La Liga and the Champions League. Fabio Capello has a reputation for being totalitarian in training and for shunning ‘pretty football’ for the sake of results. He also has one of the most impressive art collections in Italy. He currently manages the England national team (Fabio Capello profile).
On episode nine of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by FourFourTwo’s man in Madrid, Tim Stannard, to talk about Spanish football and La Liga.
The show will be...
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England are in pole position to qualify from Group Six for the 2010 World Cup and they’ll move one step closer to that target when they beat Ukraine at Wembley on Wednesday, April...
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Air Beckham landed yesterday in Milan.
The move has been criticised by some who see it as a ‘glamour’ signing for Milan and a ‘fashion capital’ move for the Beckhams, but Beckham has always had his critics on and off...
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While football success and failure is usually measured season to season, from August to May, the end of an year gives an opportunity to look back on the calender twelve months and see who we think has been worthy of appearing in this column.
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Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. We have a lot of juicy bits to get to, including an unlikely career resurrection, an even more unlikely spending spree, and a family reunion you thought you would see when Hell froze over.
Arsenal...
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Five goals in three games have announced Wayne Rooney’s return to international prominence. His performance against Belarus last night, and the build-up to it against Croatia and Kazakhstan, indicate that the Manchester United striker is ready...
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So, four games into the qualification campaign for World Cup 2010 and England sit clear at the top of their group with twelve points.
An unimpressive win over Andorra was followed by a scintillating performance in Croatia. Then, last Saturday...
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It was all set up. Six points out of six, a crowd of 90,000 passionate and expectant fans and coming off the back of a fabulous 4-1 win in Croatia. The opponents? Kazakhstan, who have never qualified for anything and were at Wembley to just play a...
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England coach Fabio Capello has urged fans not to boo his side if they struggle to break Kazakhstan down today. The Italian has made the plea ahead of this afternoon’s match at Wembley. England fans have always had high expectations for their...
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Former Arsenal player Alexander Hleb (now at Barcelona) had this to say about Fabio Capello’s rules:
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