Since I watch the BBC in Wales we just saw England beat Switzerland 2-1 so you will have to be regaled about a Koumas hatrick elsewhere.
Some post match thoughts on England who overall were underwhelming yet professional. Cole and Rooney flickered with promise and delivery. David James erred towards (against a defensive Swiss side) the uncalamitous. Jenas contrived to look like a proper international. Bentley looks alright in David Beckham's boots. Stuart Pearce managed to remain seated throughout, but he looked like a bag of contorted nerves. Capello has a good tailor and would make a very good pro-poker player. Unreadable that man. Cross yet warm looking. Intelligent but barbarous.
This is the sort of performance we can look forward to more often with Capello. Nothing of fireworks. And an outfit who rely on technical superiority and organisation to win through, just, but consistently. Welcome to Italy. If England keep winning, even 1-0 or 2-1, against all comers, no-one will be complaining.
The important question however is will Fabio Capello have as positive effect on the sale of thick rimmed specs as Sven Goran Erikson did for rimless ones?
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Aside from the fact that thick rimmed glasses are generally cheaper than rimless ones (as I found out on a recent trip to Specsavers), I think you're right about Capello going for the 'cautious but solid' approach.
I can't say the performance filled me with renewed optimism, but I think the more games they get to play under his leadership, the more his footballing mentality will rub off on them, and the more professional they'll look.
Thick rimmed glasses are cheaper! TRaidtinally of course thick rimmed glasses in the UK were the NHS ones- that became innancely popular in the 1990s with the help of that bloke from Kingmaker and Chris Evans. Rimless glasses have a more northern continental feel- 'foursprung dirk technique'.
It would be good if Capello's knowledge was taken on board and lived on beyond his tenure, but sadly this probably won't happen due to the 'his own man' philosophy (?) that hangs over incumbents of the England job. Everybody starts from zero, unlike the countries who build long-term. Anyway, statistically, by 2100 every team will be made up of 11 naturalised Brazilians and all of this will be irrelevant.
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