Madness: Joey Barton (right) took to Twitter after Capello resigned

QPR midfielder Joey Barton was typically forthright in his assessment of where the developments, which followed John Terry being stripped of the captaincy, left the England team.

'Well, well, well, this debacle claims yet another victim. Where does this stop. £madness,' he said on Twitter.

'No captain and no manager. 4 months from a major championship. What's going on.......'

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand, who earlier revealed he was not interested in taking over the captaincy from Terry, tweeted: "So Capello resigns....what now...."

Former England striker Alan Smith, now a pundit with Sky Sports, said:

'We knew he wasn't happy with the John Terry situation and made his reasons perfectly clear, but I didn't expect him to resign.

'I don't know if the FA have forced his hand and said "we can't go on this way, we can't see any future in it", but given he's put in a lot of work to get us qualified and there's a big championship coming up which England have a chance of doing well in, I am surprised.'

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