Funny how Capello is taking the flak, but nobody mentioned the possible influence of

the established captain Terry f**king up the harmony and forcing a change of captain, who in turn got injured forcing another change.

Yes those #2 and #3 captains are probably respected in themselves but changes in authority and style really take a while to get used to.

I mean, the criticism most often levelled (other than the tactical one while those tactics made us look great for 18 months before) is that of lack of spirit. Surely that's the kind of thing the captain has, or should have, influence on ?

And THAT is then tough to change when you have it forced upon you as your #1 and #2 captains cannot be made captain again. If you want to change captain, you have to go to #4 and risk the likelihood of all the same transition problems again, perhaps destroying the confidence of #3, and that's not a risk you want to run in the middle of the World Cup.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on June 19th 2010 at 20:33:48

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interesting take on why it's all going tits up in the England camp (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 19, 19:01:48
- Funny how Capello is taking the flak, but nobody mentioned the possible influence of (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 19, 20:33:48
- Interesting; but speculative and not overly compelling (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 19, 19:22:02
  - James was informed by the interviewer that Capello had said the players were still under t (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 19, 19:30:03
    - I couldn't work out how to interpret that, whether he meant it on a personal level (Other Football) - pants, Jun 19, 19:34:53
      - it is all a bit odd, and yeah i think people are going to read what they want into it (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Jun 19, 19:42:34
      - James has always been a massive cunt (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 19, 19:39:32
        
        Yup, was going to say exactly the same thing (Other Football) - 1morepost4jame_sward, Jun 19, 19:43:12
        
        lol (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Jun 19, 19:46:02
        
        :) (n/m) (Other Football) - 1morepost4jame_sward, Jun 19, 20:55:22
  - got bored about half way through, tried to suggest (Other Football) - pants, Jun 19, 19:28:10
- Very interesting. (Other Football) - ncfcmatt, Jun 19, 19:09:49

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