Right back on topic... If someone with the experience and success of Capello can't make a go of it then I think something else needs fixing beyond selecting a new coach/manager. I suspect it's player attitude that's most to blame. Less cash into those players' wallets with more investment into grass roots English footy and investment into junior coaching wouldn't hurt either.
Stop playing the same old players time and time again who have "made it" big in the Premier league and go for some "young and hungry" players instead?
back off topic again. No idea where your P went ??? i was still talking to the Mods about the blatent theft from my post.
Most English players nowadays are in as good physical shape as their opponents, and the technical side of their game (ball control, accuracy of pass etc.) has improved a lot due to the demands of the Premier League. Most of them, though, simply don't seem to understand the game and can't adapt to changing circumstances on the pitch. A team can cope and be successful with one or two automatons as long as the rest are able to read what's happening and adapt in response to it. You also need two or three players capable of influencing those around them to do what's needed. If you haven't got any of that, then at least you need players with sufficient intelligence to understand and respond to the coach's instructions and the flexibility to adapt to what the coach demands at any given point in the game. IMO the current England side fails on virtually every count; it consists of ten automatons plus Rooney. A manager, whoever he is, can only do so much with such a team and they will always fall short in the final rounds of a major international championship. My sympathies are with Capello; and why anyone such as Wenger would be keen to take the job on is beyond me.
