Fabio Capello
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).
Uninspired England Fire Blanks Against Montenegro: The Player Ratings
Both England and Montenegro saw their flawless winning starts to their respective Euro 2012 qualifying campaigns ended at Wembley last night, with a resolutely sterile stalemate ensuring that neither side deserved to leave with the spoils. England dominated possession but, as we’ve seen so many times in the past, the percentages are entirely irrelevant if…
Would Rio Ferdinand Be Wise To Consider International Retirement?
Despite being declared quite literally unfit to captain Manchester United a couple of weeks back, Rio Ferdinand has confirmed that he will be resuming his duties at international level when England take on Montenegro in their Euro 2012 Qualifying campaign at Wembley tomorrow evening. Ferdinand was forced to yield the armband to Steven Gerrard when…
Euro 2012 Qualifiers: The Ones To Watch
I must admit that there was a time, not so very long ago, when I used to feel a creeping sense of boredom during international breaks. In my heart of hearts I knew that I should be grateful for the fact that football was available for easy consumption at all, but after many-a-year of increasing…
The FA Will Severely Limit Their Options By ‘Going English’ To Find Capello’s Successor
With just 22 short months left on the meter, the Football Association (FA) are already pressing ahead with the courting of possible successors to current England manager Fabio Capello – who has signalled his intentions to retire from the game once his contract expires in July of 2012. Though much of the fault can be…
How Wayne Rooney Shed £12m In One Easy Step
Given his recent extra-marital misdemeanours, it should come as little surprise that Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney‘s intrinsic commercial value has – if you’ll excuse the unavoidable pun – waned of late. His recurring inability to regulate which orifices he crams his junk into has already cost Rooney one of his high-profile sponsors, after Coca-Cola…
England: How To Win Our Support Back
England’s World Cup was a shambles. It’s been spoken about far too much since, so I’m not going to keep flogging the already heavily incapacitated horse like everyone else seems to. Instead, I’m looking at the aftermath of what may as well have been a squad holiday for England to South Africa, with a few…
England 4-0 Bulgaria: The Player Ratings
England relieved some of the pressure that had been mounting on their besieged manager Fabio Capello by getting their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign underway with a convincing victory, registering an emphatic win over Group G rivals Bulgaria at Wembley last night. On paper at least, Bulgaria represent one the biggest potential stumbling blocks in England’s…
Is Fabio Capello A God Or A Monster?
“You created a God, and you created a monster!” may sound like something a distraught, sunburnt Charlton Heston might scream at a laboratory full of inquisitive apes, but alas, the above is not a paraphrase from the script of a piece of late-1960′s dystopian cinema, but a direct quote from the England manager himself, Fabio…
Fabio Capello’s ‘Revolution’ Looks Depressingly Familiar
Remember England’s tumour-inducing performance at this summer’s World Cup? No? Don’t worry, slipping into a state of catatonic denial is a perfectly understandable human reaction after being exposed to such barbaric torture and, given his close proximity at the time, it’s only natural that manager Fabio Capello suffered the same psychosomatic response. The Italian coach…
A Lesson To Learn From Germany: ‘Michael’ Arteta
In the immediate aftermath of the World Cup we, as fans, were inundated with sound bites from respective football pundits and experts of how the young German side was the example for England to follow. A team of young hungry players, playing with pride for their country, playing in an exciting brand of football, playing…
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