Comments on: Beckham is wrong – Capello is as much to blame as the players http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2010/07/beckham-is-wrong-capello-is-as-much-to-blame-as-the-players/ The UK's Number One Football Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:44:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Toby http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2010/07/beckham-is-wrong-capello-is-as-much-to-blame-as-the-players/comment-page-1/#comment-43736 Toby Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:19:24 +0000 http://www.dexysden.com/?p=5209#comment-43736 Capello made a series of terrible decisions up to and during the World Cup. When he took the job he claimed he would pick players based on form and wouldn't choose injured players, why then did he phone Jamie Carragher, woefully out of form all season, and beg him to return to the international fold, why did he take a cripple on the plane (King) and why was another player whose club form had been awful all season made the captain. Theo Walcott should have definately been there, just ask a certain Lionel Messi. Indeed at half time v Germany Gerrard off, Walcott on could have been a perfect substitution and may have got England back in the game. It seems that being in the England job turns even the most qualified and intelligent people into total idiots. I think we should have an X factor style Manager contest. Ferguson, Wenger, Beckham and Simon Cowell would make up the panel. Several rounds would see the usual lunatics whittled out with computer simulations and some kind of World Cup for the chosen few. As a twist at the end current Premiership managers who fancied a pop would be allowed to enter some kind of final challenge. The panel would then choose one potential manager each and the public would vote for their favourite. We might end up with Harry Redknapp or we might end up with Barry from Nuneaton either way they probably wouldn't do any worse than Don Fabio. Capello made a series of terrible decisions up to and during the World Cup. When he took the job he claimed he would pick players based on form and wouldn’t choose injured players, why then did he phone Jamie Carragher, woefully out of form all season, and beg him to return to the international fold, why did he take a cripple on the plane (King) and why was another player whose club form had been awful all season made the captain.
Theo Walcott should have definately been there, just ask a certain Lionel Messi. Indeed at half time v Germany Gerrard off, Walcott on could have been a perfect substitution and may have got England back in the game.
It seems that being in the England job turns even the most qualified and intelligent people into total idiots. I think we should have an X factor style Manager contest. Ferguson, Wenger, Beckham and Simon Cowell would make up the panel. Several rounds would see the usual lunatics whittled out with computer simulations and some kind of World Cup for the chosen few. As a twist at the end current Premiership managers who fancied a pop would be allowed to enter some kind of final challenge. The panel would then choose one potential manager each and the public would vote for their favourite.
We might end up with Harry Redknapp or we might end up with Barry from Nuneaton either way they probably wouldn’t do any worse than Don Fabio.

]]> By: Robin http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2010/07/beckham-is-wrong-capello-is-as-much-to-blame-as-the-players/comment-page-1/#comment-43694 Robin Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:27:18 +0000 http://www.dexysden.com/?p=5209#comment-43694 Personally I would have picked the English Tottenham players who were playing fantastic at the end of the season and built a team around them. Dawson, Huddlestone, Defoe, Crouch & Lennon for a start (I am a Sunderland supporter so I would have taken Bent). I guess King would have been in my starting 11 as well. But. who cares now. England were really poor and Germany shone (by far the most entertaining side). Personally I would have picked the English Tottenham players who were playing fantastic at the end of the season and built a team around them. Dawson, Huddlestone, Defoe, Crouch & Lennon for a start (I am a Sunderland supporter so I would have taken Bent).

I guess King would have been in my starting 11 as well. But. who cares now. England were really poor and Germany shone (by far the most entertaining side).

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