Adios Fabio*
* I'm aware this is not Italian, but plenty of England fans won't know the difference anyway. Managing England is the ultimate thankless task. Fabio Capello is a highly intelligent man and would have had a good idea of what he was letting himself in for when he accepted the role, but even then he must have been shocked by just how much poison has been overflowing from this particular chalice. For certain sections of the press and a great many England fans, the very notion of a foreign type taking control of the national team induces frenzied mouth-frothing, so Capello was always onto a loser with them. Amongst the more intelligent England followers though, his reign quickly became very pleasing after a jittery start. The team qualified for the World Cup in dominant fashion and they were also making baby steps towards the sort of possession football which we'd been told time and time again was the key to doing well in tournament finals. There are any number of reason...