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MrCoffee

(24,159 posts) Wed Feb 8, 2012, 03:41 PM Feb 2012

Don Fabio has resigned!

Breaking news on the Guardian website. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/feb/08/fabio-capello-resigns-manager-england

Does the FA even realize how utterly ridiculous and useless it is these days?

I can't wait for the Euros now. I must watch Tabloid Wayne's hair plugs explode out of his head as he takes one more step to becoming the fat groundskeeper in the Nike ad.

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Don Fabio has resigned! (Original Post) MrCoffee Feb 2012 OP

So it's going to be 'Arry then? Ron Obvious Feb 2012 #1

There's only one possible candidate who could clear the bar set by the FA in the past year MrCoffee Feb 2012 #2

I've got to erm, hand it to you... Ron Obvious Feb 2012 #3

"If we win the Euros, I will run naked around Trafalgar Square!" MrCoffee Feb 2012 #4

Just about everyone wants Harry Redknapp. T_i_B Feb 2012 #7

"Ello England" Rambis Feb 2012 #5

England normally waits until tournament play starts before sucking eggs... truebrit71 Feb 2012 #6

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

1. So it's going to be 'Arry then?

Reply to MrCoffee (Original post)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 04:31 PM

Feb 2012

Now that Harry Redknapp's just been cleared of tax evasion charges the road's clear, but the timing is rotten. Spurs are doing well, realistically challenging for the Champions League spot, possibly even the title, and he doesn't want to upset that, surely?

Then again, England going to the Euros with a caretaker manager isn't going to be on either, is it? Maybe if they can convince someone like Hiddink, but I think he rightly loathes the English tabloid press and WAG culture.

Just thinking out loud. Interesting stuff!

Any bets for the successor? Any takers for Jose Mourinho?

MrCoffee

(24,159 posts)

2. There's only one possible candidate who could clear the bar set by the FA in the past year

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 04:44 PM

Feb 2012

I'm bullish on Maradona. He's going places.

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

3. I've got to erm, hand it to you...

Reply to MrCoffee (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 04:54 PM

Feb 2012

That would make for a fascinating appointment!

MrCoffee

(24,159 posts)

4. "If we win the Euros, I will run naked around Trafalgar Square!"

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 05:05 PM

Feb 2012

The English would rally around Maradona in a heartbeat. Joey Barton would single-handedly burn Twitter to the ground.

Hell, they might even make him a knight.

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)

7. Just about everyone wants Harry Redknapp.

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 08:48 AM

Feb 2012

If he turns the job down I don't know who we would end up with.

Rambis

(7,774 posts)

5. "Ello England"

Reply to MrCoffee (Original post)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 06:25 PM

Feb 2012

The wheeler dealer

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)

6. England normally waits until tournament play starts before sucking eggs...

Reply to MrCoffee (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 11:39 AM

Feb 2012

...looks like the FA wanted to be REALLY prompt this year...

They stripped Terry (without benefit of a trail), they then told Fabio to go (I don't for a second think he 'tendered' his resignation - he was told to walk back his comments or get sacked) for backing up his captain because he stupidly believed in the concept of 'innocent until proven guilty'..and now find themselves in total disarray less than six months before the beginning of the second most important football tournament in the world...

I know that 'FA' stands or "Fuck All', but really, what good are they?

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