Capello resigns as England manager
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Fabio Capello has resigned as England manager
Fabio Capello has resigned as England manager with immediate effect.
The Italian had courted controversy in recent days, after publicly disputing the Football Association's decision to strip John Terry of the England captaincy in light of an ongoing court case against the Chelsea defender.
Capello met with the FA board at Wembley on Wednesday to discuss the matter and, after a meeting that took over an hour, tendered his resignation.
The FA will hold a press conference on the matter on Thursday at noon.
"The Football Association can confirm that Fabio Capello has today resigned as England manager," an FA statement read. "This follows a meeting involving FA chairman David Bernstein, FA general secretary Alex Horne and Fabio Capello at Wembley Stadium.
"The discussions focused on the FA board's decision to remove the England team captaincy from John Terry, and Fabio Capello's response through an Italian broadcast interview.
"In a meeting for over an hour, Fabio's resignation was accepted and he will leave the post of England manager with immediate effect."
Capello was due to end his time as Three Lions boss at the conclusion of his contract following the European Championships in the summer, but the FA will now need to find a successor to lead the squad to Ukraine & Poland for the tournament.
"I would like to stress that during today's meeting and throughout his time as England manager, Fabio has conducted himself in an extremely professional manner," Bernstein said. "We have accepted Fabio's resignation, agreeing this is the right decision.
"We would like to thank Fabio for his work with the England team and wish him every success in the future."
Capello replaced Steve McClaren as England manager in December 2007, but only managed to lead his side to the second round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa - his only major tournament in charge. He presided over 42 England matches - overseeing 28 wins, eight draws and six defeats.
Prior to the announcement, ESPNsoccernet had been informed that the FA had already lined up Harry Redknapp as Capello's successor.
With Capello's contract having been due to expire at the end of Euro 2012, Tottenham boss Redknapp had long been tipped to take on the role, but his tax evasion case had raised doubts. The FA had been closely monitoring developments in the case but, following Wednesday's not guilty verdict, the path was made clear to offer the 64-year-old the job.
It remains to be seen whether Spurs would allow Redknapp to take on the role part-time until the end of the season, but former national team manager Sven-Goran Eriksson believes he is the perfect man for the job.
Eriksson told BBC Sport: "I think Redknapp will be a very, very good choice. He's English; he knows his football. He is doing a great job with Tottenham and has done a great job with every team he's had in the past, so I guess it will be him.
"You need to be an experienced manager used to dealing with the big names and some knowledge about international football would help. I think Harry has all these things."
However, it is England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce who is expected to manage the senior side for the forthcoming friendly against the Netherlands on February 29, before the search for a permanent successor gets underway.
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both incidents should have been sorted out on the day, if the players involved and the managers took some discipline to the offending player and fined whoever was at fault and compensate the receiver out of the players wages, say 4 weeks salary, .............. what happens at the match stays at the match.im sure managers could get to the bottom of these incidents
and that includes rooneys kick when he played for england and got a 3 match ban reduced to two
gabriel e
you seem to have all the answers to other peoples posts so here's one for you.
How do we know nothing would have happened if Ferdinand had called Terry a white so and so? The fact that 4 Somali girls beat up a white girl and got away with it, that's how we know! Or how about Diane Abbots racial outburst? Do you seriously think white people would have got away with those incidents? Current events suggest otherwise.
It doesn't need to actually happen for a black player to insult a white player for us to know that f**k all will happen. To suggest we don't know because it hasn't yet happened is just being pedantic, you know as well as everyone else that racism is a one way street in todays Britain.
So don't call other people clowns for stating the reality, it is you who's spouting nonsense
GABRIELL E.....You have that right, racism is for the benefit of black people only. talk about equality.......... it doesn't exist.period
Paul ward, if it had gone to court it would have been thrown out, it's only that suarez told it as it was , evira didnt come up with any truths, and suarez was never once accused of racism in the FA's own 115 page report, which can be read on the internet
I cant understand why the John Terry case goes to court and he can continue to play,
But Suarez gets banned by the F.A for 8 games (very serious penalty) but the police hasnt got involved even though he admitted saying racist things to Evra.
As for Capello - He's a total knob
The next England manager debate is doing head in now, no one has mentioned Neil Warnock I think he deserves a chance,
and why would Harry Rednapp want the hassle, hes got a job for life at Tottenham.
Footballers, football managers, bankers, newspaper editors, insurers, ftse 100 CEOs and chairmen, chartered accountants and lawyers all receive pay packets where they think they're hard done by if there's less than 6 noughts on the end of the number. Are they overpaid or are the rest of us underpaid?
What would you prefer? Footballer or nurse? Banker or life boatman? Politician or dentist?
We've got our values all upside down, and the fact that we are all treating this matter as if it's something important proves it. I know, let's get rid of the big earners and share their money amongst ourselves.
Once again we have a man being rewarded for failing, when will we stop doing this? When asked about Tim Henmans possibility of winning a grand slam John McEnroe replied, he never will, you guys love losers" Perhaps he is right, perhaps it's time we rewarded success and not failure.
I'd hate the thought of him pocketing a big "golden-handshake" payment for work not done.
