{"id":2868,"date":"2010-06-28T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2010-06-28T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:57:17","slug":"world-cup-2010-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2010: England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t said anything about England in the World Cup for the simple reason that I was certain they wouldn&#8217;t get anywhere. To be honest, I&#8217;m surprised they even got through the qualifying stages after the showing in their first two matches.<\/p>\n<p>You have to face facts: if you play like England did in the first two &#8211; and very important &#8211; matches, then add a <em>marginally<\/em> better third, you have effectively demonstrated your ability<em> in toto<\/em>. But now the recriminations have started.<\/p>\n<p>England was let down by the players, and only the players. Not the manager, who is one of the best in the world. We have a dilemma, though.<\/p>\n<p>The press has decided that Fabio is to blame (largely because he is a foreigner &#8211; they disliked him from the start for that reason, made worse by the fact that he couldn&#8217;t speak English). This means that the public will, on the whole, agree (the public is too stupid to have a mind of its own, and has to have one implanted by the media). So on that count, Fabio Capello\u00a0is history.<\/p>\n<p>Fabio is a hardliner. He stopped the orange hags &#8211; sorry, WAGs &#8211; going out to steal the limelight. Originally seen as a good decision, it is being questioned now as a bad one (after the Algeria match, pundits on BBC radio were arguing that the WAGs would\u00a0have taken the focus &#8211; and pressure &#8211; off the players).<\/p>\n<p>Fabio still cannot speak English fluently, and still has an interpreter handy. The press has repeatedly picked up on that &#8211; mainly because <em>they<\/em> can&#8217;t speak English fluently either &#8211; for entirelydifferent reasons, though\u00a0&#8211; and so find it hard to understand what he is saying. This was especially evident in the post match interview yesterday, where they were asking him if he would resign.<\/p>\n<p>Britain is inherently racist in spite of being multicultural. The media pundits have been demanding a Harry Redknapp or other good ol&#8217; Brit to take the helm. The press and media forced Sven out &#8211; and he was easily the best England manager of all time. Now they&#8217;re trying it with Fabio.<\/p>\n<p>If Fabio resigns, he will be getting himself out of a sorry non-football mess that he will probably never be able to resolve, and which will give him ulcers! But in all honesty, the England football team needs him. He <em>is<\/em> the best &#8211; the players just aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t said anything about England in the World Cup for the simple reason that I was certain they wouldn&#8217;t get anywhere. To be honest, I&#8217;m surprised they even got through the qualifying stages after the showing in their first two matches. You have to face facts: if you play like England did in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}