Why fabio capello left

If popular sentiment has any say in the matter, the job will be offered to a man who emerged on Wednesday from Southwark crown court having been found not guilty of tax evasion. Capello is 65, the age that Redknapp, currently the manager of Tottenham Hotspur, will reach next month. As men, that is virtually all they have in common. Whereas Capello never seemed to respect the essential qualities of English football, Redknapp — a former winger who played for West Ham United alongside Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters, the heroes of the World Cup, and whose son Jamie played for England — is steeped in them.

The Italian used a fortune amassed from a long and mostly distinguished career to compile an art collection reputedly containing several Kandinskys; the East End-born 'Arry, also a very wealthy man, still has something of the street market about him.

Players like him, and he makes them play better. Several members of his Tottenham side are in the England squad, including their captain, Scott Parker, a contender to replace Terry as skipper, and they are currently mounting a challenge for the English league title for the first time in half a century. The analogy isn't perfect, but I believe it makes many good points.

By making their decision, the FA compromised Capello's authority and essentially tried to do his job for him. Such action is unprecedented in world football, and inexcusable.

The first issue of "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't even need to be addressed. Capello is right, and Robertson admits this. He only argues on the issue of practicality, which is definitely an issue in the domain of Capello and not the FA. Unfortunately, too many Englishmen and women are swayed by their hate or dislike of John Terry in this scenario to see the error in the FA's ways. I don't like John Terry as much as the next guy, and in America he'd probably have been dropped from our national team by now see: John Harkes , but that's not the issue.

If Capello believes Terry is the man for the job, and wins games with him as England's captain, why does it matter? Robertson has already made it clear that Terry's removal from his position as England's captain was not about morals, so if Capello is able to win with Terry as captain, why should the FA interfere?

It just makes no sense. Polls like this one by The Sun indicate that more people than not believe Capello was wrong to support Jason Terry and resign in opposition to his removal as captain of the England national team. Thank you for signing up to Four Four Two. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem.

Please refresh the page and try again. Managers come and go and you have to be professional as a player.

However, before the FA made its decision, the vastly experienced Hodgson plumped for an ill-fated spell with Liverpool before moving on to the Hawthorns. Top Stories.