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Thursday, February 09, 2012

Football : Fabio Capello resigns as England manager

The English Football Association has confirmed that Fabio Capello has resigned as England manager after a meeting with FA chairman David Bernstein and general secretary Alex Horne at Wembley.

An FA statement read: "The Football Association can confirm that Fabio Capello has today resigned as England manager."

The FA's statement continued: "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."

The general feeling "on the street" and in the forums seems to be one of "good riddance to Capello" as the Italian born manager has been dropping in popularity after four years in charge - but those fans might be surprised to leanr that Capello actually has the highest win% of England team managers who have taken charge for 25 games or more..


TOP SIX ENGLAND MANAGER RECORDS

PLWonDrawLostW%
Fabio Capello
42
28
8
6
66.7
Sir Alf Ramsey
113
69
27
17
61.1
Glenn Hoddle
28
17
6
5
60.7
Ron Greenwood
55
33
12
10
60
Sven-Goran Eriksson
67
40
17
10
59.7
Sir Walter Winterbottom
139
78
33
28
56.1

Capello is a proven manager, but even his abilities were not able to live up to the expectations of English football fans regarding the performance of the English side.

There seems now to be a ground swell of opinion that England will look to appoint an English born manager as a replacement with Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp the strong favourite to get the nod.

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