Hi,

Some of you know that I'm making a football magazine in uni and each month I have a blog section where people can share their opinions. Some people have very kindly helped me last month, and this month I want lots of views on Capello as a manager. Was he right to leave Beckham out of the squad? Do you agree with his no nonsense management style? How do you think the team will do under his? Etc?

The mag is only seen by myself and lecturer and the more views you'v got the better.

Please feel free to PM me if you want.

Cheers
Holly

I believe the English nation don't deserve a manger of his calibre.

That's interesting, how come? I think they need someone like him who will be tough but I don't know a whole lot about him as a manager.

he's the manager and he has the right to do everything his way.. so why don't people just try to live with it?.. if he manages to make english a real good team.. people will soon get over the becks issue..

the friendly match against switzerland's still his first touch.. so we can't really condemn him for having a slight winning by two goals to one.. although it'd be nice for him to do some changing in the team..

it's yet easy to predict whether we'll be improving under his management.. but english people do put a lot of hopes.. and also pressure.. on his team to win something.. the same typical thing anyway..

Well, England fans hardly treat their managers with much respect. Nor their team. This is epitomised in the support offered at matches; unnecessary booing and such. Not to mention jeering other nations’ anthems... makes you sick to be English really. Or to be a part of modern England anyway.

Also, we've neglected our managerial department to the point of no repair, and we should have to reap the bleak rewards of this. Managers such as Harry Redknapp, Kevin Keegan, Alan Curbishley and Big Sam Allardyce are the best managers we have, and i feel it a bit unfair that after seeing this area deprived to such a state as the aforementioned managers convey, we can than swan off and bring in one of the greatest club managers on earth.

My thoughts on our national coach being English are well precedented on this forum too. The manager is an integral cog in the machine, and without him you will not succeed - how then we can claim to have a national set-up that includes a horde of Italian's, i'll never know. It's not England, it's England + Italy, and is a grave shame, but reflective of the state that our game has slumped to. To look to the African Cup of Nations and the minnow countries there hosting foreign European managers makes you realise how lowly we have slumped. Regardless, principally, it's wrong. A national team with foreign personnel totally goes against the grain of what the scene is supposed to be about. Finding the greatest footballing nation on the planet, and that includes 'keepers, defenders, midfielders, attackers, managers and coaches.

In spite of the fact that i think it is wrong for Capello to be in charge, he's an excellent coach and will bring needed discipline to our side that has been lacking for years. I will be cheering him and the guys on; i just won't claim we're the best team in the World (or Europe) should we triumph in one of the major tournaments.

Being from Wales, and admittedly this is only my second full season watching football so i haven't really followed the England team but i can definately see that your points make sense. It is sad that fans heckle other teams and does ruin the atmosphere, esp with a national side, show a little respect isnt it!?

Thanks for your views though

Capello has been a very successful club manager in Spain and Italy .

I like the way he has set up his club sides , strong defence , good work ethic , team plays as a unit etc .

As for his man management style ; well you always need a balance . Be a hardman all the time and eventually the players will rebel or else tune you out . Be a nice man all the time and eventually the players will take liberties . His success at club level suggests either his no.2 is the player's friend to Capello's dictator ; or else he can swap roles himself depending on circumstances .

As for his rules ; I think they sound great :

1) eat together - team bonding
2) wear a suit - look good , feel good , and dress as if you're going to do some work .
3) late naming of the team - everyone says involved and learns the drills .

You should see Steely's comments on sky news. There's a video of it in the last page of his thread in the announcements section.

Either the last page or the penultimate page.

In all honesty I think a national teams manager should be from that nation in the same way that the players are and am highly dissapointed that the english team is not being managed by an englishman. However since that is the root we seem to be going down in order to find success Fabio will do for me.

I was at the switzerland game and thought that we played quite well all things considered (although id had a couple beforehand ) I hope that he perseveres with the formation as lets be honest our rigid "4-4-2 becuase were england and we cant play any other way" has hardly won us too much of late has it. Yes we played one up front against mediocre opposition at home but if that is to be our system of the future rather that than throw them straight into it in a competative match or in paris.

I am hopeful that mr Capello will not become a puppet of the media and not pick players on reputation alone as previous managers have done. And after travelling more often than not to watch england play i am hopefull that instead of a group of players thrown into a 4-4-2 (which most of them dont play for their clubs now anyway by the way) we can tactically match the best teams in the world and then just hope the players can reproduce their club form.







i feel iv said all this before though........

I don't see what the fuss about Capello not being from England is about. Alot of people have been hoping Almunia gets a passport so he can play. Pot, kettle?

Who wanted Almunia to get a passport? I thought the reception to that was quite cold from what i could recall. But that would be wrong on every level if he was; yet only as much as having Capello as manager is.

What you could say was "pot calling kettle black" would be the English fans backing a foreign manager but opposing a foreign player.

Thank you again for your comments! they're all veyr interesting and useful

I do like the fact that he's tough but thats prob because im quite bossy myself hehe!

Already a topic about this but anyway.. hes the best choice they could have made. His Success level is astonishing and its what england need. A Manager who is not playing sides based on club performance, but a player playing at international standard week in week out.

It's the same both ways. Backing a foreign player and opposing foreign manager. I have read some people saying they would love Almunia to get called up. Probably Arsenal fans but still English

ben.. they don't oppose a foreign player.. they just want to limit the number of foreign players..

cfcbhoy.. they don't need almunia as long as they still have carson and plenty of other english ones..

I mean oppose foreign players for the national team Flipper.

no they haven't.

almunia is the only person who has entertained the idea

I've read Arsenal fans on here say it