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Fabio Capello CV
- Italian, born 1946.
- A former midfield player for Roma, Juventus, AC Milan and Italy.
- Has managed Milan, Real Madrid, Roma and Juventus, winning the domestic league title with each of them.
- Now England manager, Capello has announced that it will be his last management role. His annual salary will be £6 million.
By all accounts, a good resume. But tell me, what does an England manager actually do again? Put up with the press. Get free tickets to a game once in a while. Collect a pay cheque for over 16 thousand pounds every day, and put a team sheet together now and then. There aren't the day-to-day worries of a domestic league team and you don't need to worry about the player fitness/wages because the club managers are looking after them. And there's absolutely no incentive to leave any sort of lasting legacy, like restructure English football from the lower leagues on up. Surely it's really just a two day a week job?
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Thrilla in Antigua
England lost another game in the Cricket World Cup yesterday but at least they did it in style. I was following the match on the Duckworth Lewis calculator and we were cruising till the three quick wickets went down... then I must admit they really pulled it out of the bag to come so close to winning! Come on England.
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Peccadillos on pedalos
It's been an eventful World Cup so far with lots of highs like the six sixes in an over by Hershel Gibbs. There have been lows too, such as Bob Woolmer's passing. Pakistan and Scotland are already out, and Andrew Flintoff (so the newspapers say) "got into difficulties" after falling off a pedalo. More than a mere peccadillo really. What's he playing at? England fans have had enough. We don't deserve to win this tournament - teams that display some fight do, like Bermuda, who have players like Dwayne Leverock (pictured) fast becoming legends. He took a truly excellent diving catch yesterday. And Ireland who beat Pakistan deserve high praise - high praise indeed... but not England.
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England Thrash Australia
And when I say thrash, I mean a comprehensive victory. We beat Australia by 92 runs in Sydney!
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The Dell'Olio code
England's record against Sweden is pretty awful, is this due to some global conspiracy? Will Sven go all out against his home country? Will we be playing Germany in the next round? Well, like against Paraguay, I've done another simulation on Pro Evolution Soccer 5. The result? England 1, Sweden 0. Clearly that's what's destined to happen. Oh, and Owen scores.
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This is what to do, Sven
Seeing Poland lose to Germany in the last minute was, well, a swift nut kick for the Poles and despite not having the heat and absence of Rooney to blame, Sven Goran Eriksson almost dished one out himself on England last thursday. At the risk of sounding like Mark Lawrenson, here's what you want to do, Sven.
Drop Crouch - The most embarrassing moment for all England fans during this World Cup must've been when Peter Crouch (at 6ft 7in) tried to do an overhead kick in the Trinidad and Tobago penalty area. It still makes me laugh now. So he's scored five goals in four games, so what? With respect, any premiership forward can score a hat-trick against Jamaica (without missing a penalty) and the most recent goal should've been disallowed as he clearly fouled his marker Sancho by pulling his dreadlocks! The style of play has now become, hit a long ball and try to hit Peter on the head into the goal. It doesn't work.
Light a fire under Beckham - Now I don't think David should be dropped but for all the overhit corners, crosses and free kicks that hit the wall half way up (he hasn't scored from a free kick for over 3 years), there's a case for it...
Light a fire under Lampard - Frank! How many chances do you need? Three apparently are not enough, one of which provided by Owen. Had that been converted perhaps some of the heat from the press might've been taken off him...
Give Walcott a half - Let's see what he can do! This game versus Sweden is a chance to experiment. We don't need to win the game. Indeed, you don't have to win seven games to win the World Cup, (in fact, you can theoretically even lose one and draw two during the group stages). If he doesn't play in this game I can't see him playing in any.
Don't risk the yellow carded players - Again, no need! Here's the formation to try, with Carrick and Rooney the subs to come on for Hargreaves and Walcott.
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Thought it might be interesting to simulate the upcoming England vs Paraguay game on Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (yeah, soccer = football to you and me) and see what the result would be. Well, good news, it ended England 3 Paraguay 1. No surprise really. We're well above them in the FIFA World rankings... In fact we're the most highly ranked in the group.
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Delhi Belly
Third and final test for the England cricket team in Pakistan tomorrow. Worried. Even if we win we only draw the series, and from some of the photos I've seen the guys seem to be hinting that the curries aren't really agreeing with them...
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My nerves are still shot to pieces after watching the second closest test match result in history - an England victory by 2 runs!
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How to watch cricket
Watching the test match on the big screen in Regent's Park last Sat was brilliant... until England lost the plot...
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Now here's a man with fewer marbles than advertised - manager of Brazil?! In your dreams, Sven. Let's win some England games first...
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Who supports Spurs?
It's a well known fact that some of the worst footballers in the world play for Tottenham Hotspur. What's less well known is that if you can't get in to play there, you still might have a shot at the Swiss national side. So, come on England, I'm predicting 5-0 tomorrow, especially as I hear the English fans have been roughing up the opposition a bit off the field. Have you noticed? Almost every Swiss supporter has a great big white bandage on them!
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"Any Australians please make your way to the front!" These were the words I saw mouthed by a policeman at the England Rugby team's victory procession through London today. Let's hope the light blues get the same result at Twickenham tomorrow!
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Brian Johnston's "Legover" commentary
Ah, it brings joy to my heart when England win a test match... I found this today - it's a little clip that has also brought joy to many people's hearts (even though it's about an English batsman getting out...). Yes, it's Brian Johnston's famous "leg over" clip.
***Calculate Duckworth Lewis***
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A bit worried by this decision to make Michael Vaughan England's one-day cricket captain... Granted, he's the world's best batsman, but my Dad's a better fielder than him! Are his tactics in the field going to be any good? Doubtful, very doubtful... I'd vote for Phil Tufnell... actually no I wouldn't, not for captain, but for "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" I would! I haven't witnessed any of the farcical nonsense but the Daily Mail's article on it was highly amusing, particularly the bit on them needing "medical and psychological evaluation." Go Tuffers!
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England 53 - 3 South Africa
All I can say is that we deserved it; those South Africans were just too ill-disciplined. That tackle on Jonny Wilkinson was about a month late. Oi, Springboks! Who's yer daddy!?
Bring on the World Cup! Right now you could cut me and I'd bleed rugby...
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Come on England, come on Nasser. You can do it. You can get a big total and win a test match. Otherwise, like many houses across the UK this coming week, we're all going to be completely gutted...
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England 32 - 31 Australia
Man, that was a good match. I was fraternising with the enemy again like last weekend, shouting at them their team... I couldn't help it, they were so weak! Tell me, was there or was there not an Aussie on the ground injured almost every single time there was a break in play? I mean come on. This isn't schoolboy rugby. But what I love most about the whole thing is the way Wilkinson nowadays just kicks the opposition into submission. Always, straight through the middle between the uprights. Simple. Effective. Yeah baby!
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Really looking forward to the Rugby match versus the All Blacks on Saturday. We're going to deck them. Just to educate myself I found out what the Haka actually means in English today. Now that I know it's a load of nonsense it's hard to take it seriously! But apparently there is a proper explanation and history to it.
I'm going to watch the match with a bunch of Kiwis which will make victory oh so sweet. It's the Alpha weekend away down in Eastbourne and three of the people in the group come from New Zealand. In fact there are loads of them in church. Anyway, we're going to do Eastbourne and check out all the old people. I've been warned that because most people down there are over 75 they whack the heating in the hotel on full blast! Had better start packing a few t-shirts...
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Am watching the test match... how depressing. I'm doing far better than England on this little online cricket game and competition.
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Down and Out
Have been too disappointed with England being out of the World Cup to write much. Plus I'm actually quite ill... I should be better soon though.
I'm moving down to London on Tues so this website will disappear for a couple of weeks, then hopefully will reappear at www.nimisis.com once a phoneline and ADSL is up and running in my new place (and I've sorted out a webserver). See you then.
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It was great to watch Denmark play like they had a plane to catch. Got quite abusive during the match... I called them citizens of a stub of a country, full of Vikings and only worthy of acid rain... Sorry, very embarassed and ashamed now. World Cup fever is taking over!
Bring on Brazil or Belgium.
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Don't Cry For Me Batistuta
Not the best England performance I've ever seen but still, we're through, and the icing on the cake is the fact that both France and now Argentina are out. Woo hoo! Coming second in the group may not be all that bad. At least the next match against Denmark won't be in the sweltering heat of the afternoon (as it will be for Sweden against Senegal) but the more comfortable cool of the evening.
Check our statistical chances of winning according to 'Gari' (Glover Automated Results Indicator).
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First ever entry...
Wow, the pressure is overwhelming... then again maybe not. I know that I'm getting absolutely no visitors to this site at the moment! Maybe if millions of people do start to visit in later years they'll come back to see what the first ever entry was. Sorry to disappoint you.
Well, I'd better go. That's enough excitement for one day, plus I need to go to bed early in order to get up for the England vs Nigeria match tomorrow!
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