ENGLAND Under Capello

ENGLAND Under Capello

This is my first blog on this site and you are going to get accustomed to it anyway so let say it right out I am a huge Arsenal Fan. Being a Gooner means that we have hardly any Englishmen in our starting XI. However, having said this I am a through and through england fan.

Ever since Eriksson got the boot, amid all the 'we need an English manager' from the press and fans, I was adamant that no English manager was up to the standard quite yet and consequently Mclaren proved this.
So after a summer of watching Spain win Europe's elite international trophy I am ready to cheer England on in the World cup qualifiers and hopefully (with a little luck) World cup finals under the new England manager Fabio Capello.


Well, since his arrival in December 2007, Capello has not had any great challenges with England as a manger. The friendlies they've played have all been dire with team never performing up to expectations. The Andorra match last week followed in the same suit, we won but only just, to a team ranked 135 places below us in the FIFA world rankings.
However having said this Capello is proven to win by nay means necessary, this means he will win us games even if we don't play the best football in the world. This also ties in with another great factor that Capello has- the ability to Discipline his team. News paper headlines have lead us to believe that he has a strict training regime and the match against Andorra proved that he is not afraid to yell at his players (Joe Cole and Rooney can vouch for this).

Coming into the role, Capello had an illustrious managerial CV, winning nine league titles and European cup with some of Europe's biggest clubs. So he was well qualified for the job, but does he have that extra something that it will take to shape up our squad of individual superstars into an effective successful team?The simple answer in my opinion is yes. However whether we want to see our team winning ugly or playing great free flowing football is a different matter all together.