Why Capello Should Be Getting His Eyes Tested Again

So England have been knocked out of the World Cup 2010. Surely there aren’t too many of us who are genuinely surprised? Yes this was supposed to be our World-Cup winning ‘golden generation’, and yes, that ball was so far over the line even the burk sporting sunglasses in the crowd could see it. But did we at any point look like we could, or deserve to, win the game? No, we really didn’t.

 

The Germans played us off the park at certain points and England never reached that expected level of form. What a lot of people are struggling to understand however, is the approach taken to the game (and the 3 previous group games) by England coach Fabio Capello.

 

During the qualifiers, England were outstanding, brushing teams aside with ease and playing the like potential world champions we all know they can be. So what exactly happened to make the team stop playing like that? Fabio Capello happened. He decided, for reasons really known only to him, to change the team that had looked to fantastic in the run-up to the tournament. Let’s take England vs. Croatia in the qualifying rounds for example, we hammered them and who were the best two players; Theo Walcott and Joe Cole. Capello left Walcott at home and gave Joe Cole around 20 minutes over two games, with him never starting.

 

I don’t understand which England he’s watching, but he should be getting himself tested for better prescription glasses, because whatever Mr. Capello is seeing, the rest of the country aren’t. For example, i’d like to know what Capello sees in Heskey; the striker who can’t score. He should be in the Wizard of Oz; the lion, tinman, scarecrow and the donkey. Capello argues he brings the best out of Wayne Rooney. Does he really? When was this? Rooney looked to be imitating David Blaine to me; 40 days in a box without doing anything interesting whatsoever.

 

Then there’s the formation. Everyone in the country was pleading with Capello to put Gerrard up with Rooney in our 4-5-1 formation. But it seems Fabio is in need of a good hearing aid as well as better glasses, because he consistently played 4-4-2 with Gerrard on the left.

 

Let’s have Stuart Pearce as England manager, we can’t get any worse and at least he’ll give us a bit of passion. Bring on the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

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