brillaint atricle in the sun today by steven howard detailing exactly how bad capello was. embarrasingly bad actually.
some of the descisions he made when written down on paper were truly shocking.
SO he's gone � and not before time.
After being paid �24million in four years, you might have thought Fabio Capello might have learned the language.
But he couldn't even do that.
Though he did have enough grasp of the swear words to sit yelling at his players from the bench in South Africa.
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The clearest sign that he had totally lost the plot.
He stared out at his players from behind his glasses not knowing what to do and looking to all the world like Mr Magoo.
This was some comedown for a man generally acknowledged as one of the finest club managers in history.
Yet he was never cut out to be an international manager.
Already past 60, he was set in his ways, prickly and a man neither to be crossed or disagreed with.
A sergeant major who turned the training camp in South Africa into a barracks.
Capello should have been sacked after the World Cup � surely the worst performance by England at a major tournament.
Yes, even more disastrous than the shambles under Kevin Keegan at Euro 2000.
We sat and we squirmed. I'm not sure we ever quite believed England could look as bad as they did in the 0-0 draw with Algeria that night in Cape Town.
It was so bad even the fans turned on the team.
Yet the FA couldn't see what needed to be done. Belatedly, in the wake of the second John Terry Affair, they started to lay down the law. Capello, true to form, couldn't or wouldn't take admonishment. Arrivederci.
And yet it all began so well.
England topped their qualifying group for South Africa with nine wins out of 10.
But it quickly went horribly wrong.
We had the nonsense of the Capello Index though, true to form, he couldn't see what the fuss was about.
But it was the naming of his final 23 that really started to raise eyebrows.
Theo Walcott didn't even make the squad, along with Adam Johnson and Scott Parker.
Instead of 24-goal Darren Bent, he opted for three-goal Emile Heskey. Then we had the selection of the walking wounded, a recipe for disaster.
Rio Ferdinand tore a cruciate in the first training session while Ledley King, always a liability with knee problems, got injured in the first game.
Gareth Barry, carrying a long-term injury, was out on his feet long before Germany got their fourth.
All this was compounded by his indecision over his goalkeepers. Twenty-four hours before the USA opener, none of the three knew who was going to play.
Then Capello picked the worst. And was rewarded when Rob Green threw the ball into the net for the US equaliser. Such was Capello's uncertainty about the fitness of his players, he picked the clearly-ill James Milner for the USA game � and had to take him off before half-time.
Incredibly, he then achieved the impossible � it got worse.
The Algeria game was as bad as anything we have ever seen before a scrambled 1-0 win over Slovenia sent us to Bloemfontein.
Yes, there was the misfortune of the disallowed Frank Lampard equaliser but in the end his team were well beaten by the Germans.
His subsequent selection for the Euro qualifiers of many of the players he had left out � Hart, Parker, Johnson and Walcott � was a fitting indictment of his blunders.
Diplomacy not being his greatest asset, he then stunned David Beckham and all England fans by announcing the former skipper's "retirement" from international football with a flip comment in a TV interview. What a way to treat a national icon. Then he made another awful blunder � convincing the FA that Terry should be reinstated as England skipper.
What made this such a poor call was that he had acted with rare decisiveness in axing Terry after the skipper's humiliation of former team-mate Wayne Bridge.
And if this wasn't enough, he then failed to tell Ferdinand he was being replaced.
As for things on the pitch, one of the easiest qualifying groups meant it would be harder NOT to qualify for Poland and Ukraine.
But no one was � or is � expecting any great shakes in the tournament itself.
And so to the final denouement and Capello's undermining of his FA bosses by telling Italian TV he didn't agree with the decision to replace Terry for a second time. Originally, it was felt he didn't quite appreciate the seriousness of the race charge hanging over Terry's head. Now, though, his blatant destabilising of the FA looks more like a deliberate ploy.
As if, acknowledging his international career could end in the humiliation of failing to qualify from the group stage at the Euros, he was angling for a return to Italy or, maybe, Russia and a last shot at club management.
People say his heart hasn't been in the job. I doubt if it ever was � �6m-a-year being the most powerful reason for coming here. He never really understood English football and the emotions it engendered. Despite his rantings on the touchline, he was a cold fish.