Come anticipate Fabio Capello's two years as England manager with me

I saw less than 5 minutes of the game and during that period I saw whoever was England right back hoof it half the length of the pitch.

In the last half-hour
Denmark 1-2 England RTE 21:23
Young Seals Win For Lively England Sporting Life 21:19
Young upstages Wilshere as England beat Denmark ESPN.co.uk 21:15

In the last hour
Something Arsenal fans didn't think they see this season? AshburtonGrove.co.uk (Weblog) 20:47
Jack Wilshere: Destined For Failure Bleacher Report 20:43

4 articles to have turned up so far, 2 of which diss a guy who i thought was decent. Jesus, what the fuck is wrong with the press? Destined for failure from his first start?

Wilshere was fine/good. England looked a bit ropey defensively first half, but then again that was against Denmark's First Team. Basically the England subs were of the same quality as English starting eleven whereas Denmark's subs were poorer than their starting eleven, hence England looked better second half. An over simplification probably, but roughly how I saw it. That destined for failure piece must be a joke right?

That was p much England's first team though? I mean I know Wilshere is new and Dawson was there and there is no absolute replacement for Heskey but the rest is the locked XI.

Also dunno, refused to click it.

It's a piece lamenting the Wilshere hype just now because he's inevitably going to be knocked down when the media get bored of him. I might try and write a 'he's shit' one myself now.

I meant that I don't think there is that much of a drop off between certain England first teamers and their back ups. At least not as big a drop off as there is for Denmark. So England's first team is slightly better then Denmark's, but England's squad as a whole is a lot better than Denmark's. At least on the basis of this one game.

But yeah Wilshere is almost certainly the real deal and fools be trippin'.

In other International news Gourcuff looked good tonight from the 50 or so mins I saw tonight. One exquisite through ball to Benzema (which he pulled wide). Brazil dude sent off for a De Jong on Alonso-esque high kick on aforementioned Benzema, so I couldn't be bothered to watch the rest of the game.

i dunno, just looked like the usual england cowardly messiah complex again. against france they stick andy carroll up by himself and expect... uhhh... something... but never support him in numbers. against denmark the defenders pass it to wilshere, who looks up and sees everyone standing around miles away like pillocks as the nation waits with baited breath. he has little option but to pass to a fullback, who if they're called glen johnson falls over and loses it. wash, rinse, repeat.

Hey Glen Johnson had an assist.......along with squandering possession a couple of dozen times admittedly, but look an assist!

The "destined for failure" report is actually a comment on how the media hype surrounding his first cap will have scribes sharpening their pens for him should he fail to become the Best Thing Ever at some unspecified point.

Young Seals Win For Lively England Sporting Life 21:19

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I actually thought the 1st half was pretty good.

this captaincy thing....like is capello on the sauce or something? what kind of moron causes such a shitstorm and man manages the whole thing so badly?

I think at this point he's just trolling.

total non-story mountain out of molehill as usual imo

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- There WAS a rogue one in there

Capello reacts

honestly yesterday this was a dece EPL team beating a dece Championship team right? don't really get these "second coming" vibes

This match is great, feels like the World Cup

I think Leighton Baines should probably have just got a straight red?

This match is great, feels like the World Cup

except for England like having some shots on target and possession and stuff

Cap out?

https://twitter.com/#!/search/capello

Looks like a baseless load of old internet shite. As you were.

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love Super Roberto

gone

Breaking on SSN that he's just quit...

xpost as deems can search faster than me

bye bye

ffs

on the fa site: http://www.thefa.com/England/News/2012/080212.aspx

tbf ailsa i'm on the phone :)

Me too :)

Arry in then?

stuart pearce!

Ciao, Fabio!

arry part-time or straight swap

im sure most english people would prefer 'arry than capello in charge at the euros.

barry fry, ladies and gentlemen

haw dogfucker redknapp has all the luck

he'll take them over for the summer pretending his arm has been twisted or patriotic duty etc etc

then if hes not a total failure he gets a huge contract for the world cup else he just goes back to tottenham and it gets seen as a temporary episode a la ferguson in 86

john terry saves england by getting 'arry in as manager

can't see England or Spurs being too pleased with him playing two roles for the next three months tho

he will take over as soon as season has ended like nakh says

Get Terry in as player-manager

I'm amazed.

International manager is a part time job tbh and Arry has shown over the past few weeks he can do the Spurs job part time too.

Wouldn't surprise me if most english fans will be happier having an english manager at the euros.

England doesn't actually need doing, most of the time. 'Arry in, for a bit, in May is the right call.

get Walter Winterbottom back in iyam

Pardew for England

terry causes spurs to be overhauled by chelsea in league due to 'arry getting england job

Wouldn't surprise me if most english fans will be happier having an english manager at the euros.

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, February 8, 2012 7:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

daresay this hypothesis will be proved right both in tabloid phone polls and on-the-spot Sky Sports interviews with the public

john terry must really have it in for darraghmac