Roy did too, albeit to a lesser extent than Fabio who I'm not entirely convinced wasn't kidnapped in May 2010 and replaced by an imposter set out to sabotage us. Totally changed the style going into both 2014 and 2016 and went gung ho with far too many attacking players on the pitch and no balance or coherent system.
Yeah I don't understand that with Roy. Although both times we had fairly easy qualifying groups we seemed to build up a decent enough system and had balance, which as you say he completely abandoned. Capello though:
- Stripped Terry of captaincy, having called him to a meeting at Wembley that lasted about 10 minutes.
- Panicked when Barry got injured
- Completely changed formation that had been successful for the team because of this (4231, Gerrard wide), reverting back to 442 with Gerrard and Lampard in midfield.
- Seemed to forget that Michael Carrick bloke who had been the lynchpin of a very successful Man United side. Genuinely one of the best holding midfield players in europe at that point. Plays 0 minutes in the tournament.
- Picks Barry for squad, he's embarrassingly out of shape. gets out run by Özil (!) in last 16 game against Germany
- Launches 'Cappello index' for the World Cup which rates players (including his own)
- Drops Walcott
- Picks Wright-Phillips
- brings Joe Cole back into the fold having not picked him for ages
- Gambles on fitness of Ledley King when Ferdinand had been ruled out of tournament (injured in tackle by Heskey)
- Calls up Carragher (who had retired from international football)
- Tries to convince Scholes to come out of retirement
- Considered calling up Hargreaves (played 1 minute that season)
- Doesn't make clear who his first choice keeper (despite it being Green for most of qualifying - sent off against Ukraine)
- Green makes
that mistake in first game, gets slaughtered. Capello plays 39 year old David James, who is unsurprisingly just as shit even though he has Joe Hart in squad who has had the best season out of the three of them and clearly the option going forwards anyway
Anything else to add? :icon_lol:
