Sooner or later we are going to have to grow up and accept that Fabio Capello - winner in Italy of one Champions League title, four Serie A titles, two Supercoppas and one UEFA Super Cup, plus two La Liga titles in Spain, you know that Fabio Capello - knows a little bit about football.

Grudgingly, of course. This is England, after all, where the manager is always one rotten performance away from being turned into a rotten vegetable or the rear end of a pantomime horse or, in the case of Steve McClaren, receiving the generous offer of a pistol and the chance to end it like a man, albeit in cartoon form.

This season, Capello has already been a Jackass, a weirdo and one half of Laurel and Hardy and this for topping his European Championship qualifying group with three wins and a draw, rightly restoring John Terry as England captain and evolving his squad more successfully than anyone could have imagined after the disappointment of the World Cup.

Man with a plan: Capello offers his players some advice from the technical area

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