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A resounding NO!

First thing I should say is that I love Fabio Capello. I fell in love with AC Milan a little before he took over and he maintained its success throughout the nineties earning a place in my heart forever, but he's not the right man for the job. Simply because there is no right man for the farce that has become the English national team.

The last right man they had was Alf Ramsey (who's probably spinning in his grave knowing what he left behind is in tatters). The English game suffers from three very clear and distinctive symptoms and they are (in no particular order). First they don't ever, ever, ever play the right eleven, they try to pigeonhole the BEST individual eleven onto a field and expect results. For months it's been proven that Gerrard and Lampard cannot coexist in midfield together as they cancel each other out but the court jester before Capello also known as Steve McClaren insisted on such a move to soothe the egos of the stars. The players have too much power and control over team matters which ties into the fact that the English FA can't seem to get it through their heads that just because you're a big club star, you're not guaranteed to be a national team star as well. Those positions belong to the legends such as Pele, Beckenbauer, Cryuff, Zidane who shone for both club and country on all stages.

Next, The English FA is a commercial juggernaut more concerned about TV rights, image rights and sponsorship/corporate deals more than the national team. The national football centre project that has stalled for years which would be the equivalent to the French Clairfontaine Training Center (hence France winning WC98 and Euro 2000)can't even get off the ground but yet Brian Barwick the CEO of the FA, can boast of billion dollar potential at Capello's inaugural press conference. As long as the money keeps coming in they'll sit on their mountain tops counting the dough as football's popularity grows bigger and bigger with each passing second.

And lastly, the English talent that their own media spews as world-class is a joke. They were more talented teams at the 66 World Cup(the one and only time England won) such as Portugal with Eusebio and Brazil with Garrincha and Pele. But what those English lads lacked for in skill they made up for it in heart with the likes of The Charlton Brothers, Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and others. The guys today just don't have the heart or the ability to find any toe to temple pride like their 66 compatriots, because after a crushing loss they get into their Mercedes or luxury SUVs and go home to their million dollar mansions with their expensive dates. Times have changed and that 66 generation not only from England but around the world saw life differently that we do now.
Capello would have to have a ten year contract to turn those muppets' around, but the contract is only for three and a half years (four and a half at the maximum). Don Fabio just doesn't have the time to change a national, collective mentality of the me and now' English team which is a microcosm of present day English society.

But you know what? Neither does anyone else!

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