Fabio snaps at snappers

June 9th, 2010 | by: Rob |

capello snaps Fabio Capello showed the first signs he might be feeling a bit of pressure this morning, as he lost his temper with photographers at the England training camp. Apparently he was upset that the photographers had gotten inside the building and taken photos of the medical facilities and so on.

Brilliantly, after shouting them down, he stood and stared them all out for a bit, before his players joined him on the pitch for a routine training session (everyone is currently okay – Milner and King did some Gym work, while the rest of the squad trained as usual).

Its hardly the first time an England manager has lost it with the press. Directly before the 1990 World Cup, Bobby Robson lost his temper with journo’s who had claimed he had walked out on England (he actually just wasn’t having his contract renewed after the World Cup).

We eventually did pretty well in that World Cup, reaching the Semi-Finals. So probably, this is nothing to worry about. Capello has always had that fire in him, and if he can use it to create the right atmosphere in the England camp, it certainly could be useful.

Hopefully it doesn’t mean he’s snapping under the pressure. I don’t think in this case it is that though, Fabio just isn’t that sort of character, and he’s certainly faced high pressure situations before.

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Randy Salmon

So, whilst I gather that your point is that the degree of a Manager’s anger towards journalists is directly proportionate to the success of the team – I am still struggling with why SWP or Joe Hart don’t relinquish their numbers (either 17 and 23) in order that JT can take one of those and enable Gerrard to wear the preferred 6.
vN

Huh, because, Randy, SWP being given the number 17 is clearly a reference to the October Revolution of 1917 (considering the delphic reference to the Socialist Workers Party), and Capello is obviously telling us that SWP was selected to epitomize the spirit of the Bolshevik team ethic; so he obviously has to have that number. And as for Joe Hart, well, 23 being the date of the last of the group games against Slovenia is without doubt a clear reference to the heart that every player will have to put in his performances if we are to get a favourable draw for the round of 16 match. Do you have a better explanation than this!?

And, Far Cry Toff, AARON Lennon is clearly a biblical reference. Probably to the Septuagint. If anything, I agree with Capello’s implication, here, that experience and old-age are exactly what we need in this world cup. You think otherwise, do you?

No, that much is clear to me already. What I can’t figure out is how Crouch being given the number nine plays into the hypothesis of Dantean salvation (him clearly not being any Beatrice-type figure). O for a Rosetta stone of shirt numbers…!!

– vN a.k.a HornyGazelle a.k.a ThreeQuarksForAMusterMark a.k.a HolyIntercourse
Phillip Phillipson

Peter Crouch is wearing 9 because he is gay. Allegedly.
vN

Phil: Really? Well, this throws my whole hypothesis out the window. What reference do you cite for this, because Petrarch mentions nothing of the sort…

– vN a.k.a HarryHomunculus a.k.a ThierrySinisterCheiro
vN

I don’t know, but if it’s gonna happen, I’d bet it’d be in the back-alleys of Johannesburg. Man, I bet that the countries that didn’t qualify for the World Cup feel like they dodged a bullet with that one…
Will

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