Fabio's Future - Place Your Bets!!

[Lord Camomile]

Flattered to deceive, again - in a not particularly difficult group.

England haven't beaten one of the top teams in a competitive match for a long time now (I don't consider Croatia a top side) and apart from that friendly win in Germany a while back they haven't beaten anyone decent for ages. Unless you include beating Mexico and Japan in those recent friendlies, but I think either of them could have beaten England in a competitive game.

While I wouldn't disagree, this was far from the general consensus before the tournament.

 

[ska invita]

Harry Redknapp keen to be next England manager
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/28/world-cup-2010-harry-redknapp-england

'There's not an Englishman who would turn the job down'

"This guy [Capello] has a fantastic record at club level. But look, we've had a go with it now. When he finally moves on, in four years or whatever, surely there has to be a young guy or somebody in this country, surely we have to find a manager from England, an English manager.

 

[Ted Striker]

Bottom line, you can't manage with players that play as poorly as our supposed 'superstars' did. I actually got the impression he cared considerably.

Don't get me wrong, I still have nightmares about having the sort of manager that has so much faith in using a system or tactic that relies on Emil Heskey, but if we can't do it with Capello, then the altrnatives will be even shitter.

The players couldn't give a damn about the 'unwelcome distraction' of putting on the countries colours. It hardly appears on their radar finanically, and this is bound to filter through to their (lack of) respect of the manager.

 

[weltweit]

Well, I bet Fabio will stay in the job for the time being...

1) It will cost too much to get rid of him

2) people blame the players more than him

 

[Shreddy]

Roy Hodgson would be my choice!!

Either way - we're still shit at the moment!!

"At the moment"? How old are you son? Six? Or maybe you're in your forties/fifties perhaps? At any rate, same shit, same English hilarity. Abject denial is such a bitch. But so much fun if one's not English...

 

[Augie March]

"This guy [Capello] has a fantastic record at club level. But look, we've had a go with it now. When he finally moves on, in four years or whatever, surely there has to be a young guy or somebody in this country, surely we have to find a manager from England, an English manager.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Well, I bet Fabio will stay in the job for the time being...

1) It will cost too much to get rid of him

2) people blame the players more than him

Also...

- England have (another) relatively easy qualification group for Euro 2012 and Capello should be able to see them through it (don't forget that for the FA, qualification for tournaments is more important than the finals).

- losing Capello now would mean losing the experience he's acquired over the last two years, and hopefully he'll have learnt from his mistakes at the World Cup.

- Capello's English will improve and in 2 years time the players should be able to understand him better.

- now Hodgson's no longer available there's no obvious candidates - the FA won't appoint Redknapp (too dodgy, and they'd have to pay Spurs) and the only other realistic contender would be O'Neill, but they turned him down before for McLaren.

- In 2 years when Capello's contract's up, Mourinho might be gettable!

 

[The Octagon]

Redknapp = Mike Bassett, regardless of how well Spurs did last season.

Capello hasn't turned into a bad manager overnight, hopefully this debacle will give him the chance to cut some deadwood and get us back on track for the Euros.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

It's not Capello.

It's the lack of English talent in the team. It's THAT simple.

 

[belboid]

copnfirmed he's staying then.

Useless bloody FA, can't even decide when to decide properly

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8784093.stm

 

[Lord Camomile]

Not particularly well handled, but glad he's staying

Now, hopefully we've all learnt from this experience and can go on to bigger and brighter things.

I say, hopefully...

 

[g force]

Lets see when it comes to qualification rounds - needs to clear out the older players but I suspect he's all talk on that front.