for those that couldn't be bothered to find the response...

"I may have misread the mood here" - ie, in my attempt to pander to it.

Weak.

"Thanks to all of you for your comments on this posting - it's clearly generated some lively responses!
What surprised me - and I may have misread the mood here - is that there seems to considerable sympathy for Fabio Capello after what happened in South Africa.
The point I was trying to make in my blog was simply that after six weeks he might have been able to offer the public a bit more insight - if not into what went wrong at the World Cup then what he plans to do in the future.
It does seem that many of you share ibra's view that Mr Capello doesn't need to sit down with the media and provide "comprehensive details of his plans". That is a surprise to me as I would have thought there was a public appetite - especially after the World Cup - to know what's going on.
But my reading of his first press conference yesterday was that he had nothing of any real substance to say.
In response to andy_urwin in particular I would say that I didn't write that Capello should apologise (he did that himself without any prompting from the media ). But he is paid £5million a year to try and get the best out of the national team and the hope was he might have been able to offer a bit more of an explanation than the reasons he gave in the immediate aftermath of the World Cup.
However, I am listening to what you write and it is clear that many of you feel the media, myself and the BBC included, has an agenda against Mr Capello.
For my part this is certainly not the case.
I also understand that the manager can only do so much. He is limited by the players he can choose from and, as some of you point out, this is a rebuilding period.
ChuffingHeck certainly sums up that mood when he suggests it is the players who have let down a series of managers who were then deemed to be failures.
The one thing I would add, and I hope that most of you would agree with this, is that the problems for English football run much deeper than just Capello or this set of players.
It ultimately comes down to where the national team sits in the pecking order. Arsene Wenger's comments at the weekend were interesting. He said English football has to decide whether it wants to have the strongest League or to protect the national team. He is right, in my opinion. The game in England will struggle to do both well.
And to offer up a little more insight for you, Richard Scudamore posed me an interesting question after I interviewed him last week. He asked, how many games from the World Cup matched Arsenal against Barcelona in the quarter finals of the Champions League for excitement and the number of world class players on view. It's a fair point but the counter to that would be the number of ordinary Champions League, and for that matter, Premier League matches which take place throughout the season.
But what is really interesting is that clearly senior executives working in the club game now feel football has moved on and that playing international football at a World Cup may no longer be the pinnacle of the game in terms of quality and excitement.
Of course they would say that, wouldn't they?
Yet perhaps this is the heart of the matter - not the current crop of players, not English football's structural weaknesses (of which there are many) and not Capello.
I just think it would have been nice to know a bit more about what the England manager thinks about these issues."

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Aug 10, 12:42:00