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Fabio Capello's team in Switzerland owed more to the likes of Shrewsbury and Sheffield United than the Premier League's elite academiesTake out the minor detail of the world and European titles Spain have won in the last two years and Manchester City c...
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The England footballer has lost sight of his talent; the woman who brought him down has none of her ownMore palaver over Wayne Rooney and his private life, served up as entertaining scandal but actually enormously serious and sad. Rooney is portrayed ...
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From Jennifer Thompson to Belle de Jour, attitudes about breeding and education have polluted the prostitution debateSo what turns a middle-class public schoolgirl into a £1,200-a-night escort? That's what the Daily Mail wanted to know when Jennifer T...
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Club ask unconvinced supporters to get behind the former Liverpool manager as successor to Martin O'NeillThe search has lasted 30 days but Aston Villa have finally got their man. The Villa Park board should be feeling relief and satisfaction after iden...
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New faces in the squad have done well but the England manager must decide whether or not to stick with themKevin McCarraWhen a hardened manager hears calls for him to be given the sack he offers up someone else as a sacrifice. Fabio Capello's motives m...
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Adam Johnson, James Milner and Theo Walcott have helped lift England and their manager after the World Cup debacleAs England drop back into the familiar routine of dominating a qualifying group with a sequence of comfortable victories, it would be easy...
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Fabio Capello's first game in charge of England was a friendly against Switzerland, but much has changed since thenFabio Capello first opened the door on our manic cabaret 31 months ago with a friendly win against Switzerland, who have since beaten Spa...
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The striker's performance for England showed that, despite off-field distractions, he was fully focused against SwitzerlandHair cropped and stubble removed, Wayne Rooney took the field last night looking like he meant business. That personal grooming d...
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Wayne Rooney's focus is undiminished, Frank Lampard will struggle to get back in the side and Adam Johnson is a naturalWayne Rooney's focus remains intactFabio Capello had asked for evidence Rooney can separate private traumas from professional focus, ...
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Experimenting with England's outfit is nothing new, but in the end everyone returns to the classicsEngland have changed their kit so frequently in the recent past that it barely makes the news when the latest version is unveiled with a barrage of baffl...
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The England manager has more important things to dwell on than his adopted nation's obsession with scandalFabio Capello is not the type to dream of being an honorary Englishman. Any renewed sense of himself as an outsider may stem from the undisguised ...
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Football has dealt with racism on the terraces, but still ignores sexism among the playersThe News of the World devoted its first five pages today to yet another sleazy story about a footballer's private life (sordid allegations about Wayne Rooney thi...
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Latest revelations about the private life of an England player are neither the concern nor the responsibility of the managerWhere, you have to wonder, would the News of the World be without sport? Nine of the first 11 pages of yesterday's paper were ta...
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In the build-up to the England match on ITV, the host had all the relaxed charm of a hostage at gunpointWho, I should like to know, is spending £2.99 a week on the part work offering "three full episodes of the TV show Bonanza on DVD, and a companion ...
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Younger players, free from fear, have flooded Fabio Capello's England with a wave of much-needed optimismEngland could start against Switzerland on Tuesday night with one centre-half from Bolton Wanderers and another who clocks on for work at Everton, ...
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The Tottenham manager will be keen to prove his Dutch recruit is a wiser move than Manchester United's investment in BebéIn the light of Harry Redknapp's explosive response to a fairly mild bit of media stereotyping the other day, we all now have to c...
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The Arsenal winger answers critics of his footballing intelligence in an encouraging performance against BulgariaThis was a predictable result against anaemic opposition in an encouraging showing by England, especially in a much improved second half. N...
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So bad in South Africa, so good again at Wembley – Capello's talisman showed the appetite to help rebuild his side's reputationOver the dying summer months the thought must have floated through Wayne Rooney's head that England duty is just not worth ...
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Jermain Defoe's hat-trick is uplifting but Fabio Capello's stuttering side remain far from the finished productAn early goal, they say, settles a team down and loosens them up. In England's case, that rare and precious commodity can have the opposite e...
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A successful 4-4-2 formation, real width, a sparky front two and a dependable goalkeeper were positives for the managerThe formationDefinitely 4-4-2, whatever Fabio Capello says. When the match got under way England's lines were as straight as the crea...
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