Posts Tagged ‘Capello’

I just watched John Terry’s media interview with utter disbelief. Here’s England coming off two dismal performances and needing everyone to focus on an improved performance on Wednesday, come together as a squad and rally behind the manager and along comes JT, the self-proclaimed England saviour, whose says he’s going to confront Capello, tell him what’s what and have him change his tactics in order to put things right. What a prat.

His claim that he represented all the England players was ludicrous and it seems they were all shrinking with embarrassment as they watched JT telling the world that even though he was no longer captain, due to his rogering Wayne Bridge’s ex-girlfriend, he never stopped leading the team and that nothing ever changed as he was born to do this. Born to be a prat is what he meant to say.

Terry seems to have forgotten that it was Capello that guided England so flawlessly to the World Cup finals in the first place and so now after 2 games, where the England players themselves performed so horribly, he’s no longer the man to lead the team and that it’s down to our hero Terry to fix it. Brilliant thinking John boy.

And, after all the bravado, apparently Terry didn’t say a word to Capello as one of the assistant coaches advised him it wouldn’t go down too well. Maybe the best thing Terry could do to get England’s poor start to World Cup back on track is to pack his bags, stop causing unnecessary disruption in the England camp and go and have a few pints with his team-mate Anelka.

Thankfully the referee blew the final whistle on one of England’s worst performances since Steve MacClaren was the England boss. Completely lacking any imagination up front  and giving the ball away cheaply on a regular basis, England got exactly what they deserved, a round booing as they left the field.

Even though England have every chance of qualifying from the group, who would give them a prayer in the knock-out stages on the basis of their last two performances? It’s going to take some radical rethinking by Capello to get England’s World Cup ambitions back on track, but when was the last time any England manager did anything radical?

So here we go again. Boring England, under-performing and struggling to make an impression in a major international tournament.

The opportunity to be involved in a quarter-final penalty shoot-out seems like a distant dream.

It’s 0-0 in Capetown and England’s first half display against Algeria has been no less than pathetic. England look clueless with Algeria making the most of the early play. Not one of the England players have come close to a decent performance so there needs to be a dramatic turn around in the second if England are to go on and win this match and come close to looking like potential tournament winners.

Inspirational Gerrard scores England's 1st World Cup goal

Robert Green made a really, really, bad goalkeeping error. He knows it, Capello knows it, we all know it. But Green wasn’t the cause of England dropping valuable points in their opening game of the World Cup on Saturday. The fact is England just weren’t good enough to beat a mediocre US team. Beside the inspirational England captain Steven Gerrard, he just keeps delivering time and time again, players like Shawn Wright-Phillips and Lennon were poor and Rooney’s name was hardly mentioned throughout the game. Plus, it was Heskey who made the worst mistake of the match by not burying his golden opportunity with only the goalkeeper to beat. Now you see why Liverpool sold him. Gerrard’s 4th minute goal should have provided the platform for England to push on and win the match comprehensively. However, this wasn’t the case as England failed to deliver. (more…)