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Date : September 9, 2009
Time : 18:00 until 20:00 (GMT)
September 9, 2009 - 2:00pm (US/Eastern)
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The schools are back today, so let's start with a maths question. If it costs £24million to buy a centre-half, how much more would you have to pay for one who could track a runner and mark at the near post?
It must be what Manchester City's owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan is asking himself - or more pertinently asking his manager Mark Hughes - this morning after Joleon Lescott's hapless 26 minute cameo against Slovenia. Poor Lescott was booed on to the field by England's fans when he replaced Matthew Upson, and he was probably booed off by Fabio Capello at the end of the game too.
Brought up in the ultra defensive world of Italian football, Capello must despair of his efforts to sort out the rearguard in his current venture. Slovenia's late score at Wembley now means that in 17 games since he took charge with a 2-1 win over Switzerland, his team have kept a clean sheet only six times. The list of those who failed to beat our defence contains such giants of world football as Andorra (twice), Kazakhstan, Slovakia, the USA, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The instant reaction is to assume that Bilic pines for Steve McClaren, the manager whose team came from 2-0 down to equalise but still lost to Croatia at Wembley in 2007. That was a mess all right, creative or otherwise. Frank Lampard, who has known Bilic since their days in the West Ham squad, interprets these observations as an effort to distract England.
"He's very intelligent, almost in the way Mourinho was at Chelsea," said Lampard. "He's always thinking of any little edge he can get on the other team." Bilic is mistaken if he truly believes that Capello has been trying to impose a wholly alien style on England. The Italian has never really been an ideologue, no matter how dictatorial his body language might be.
Capello has won La Liga twice with Real Madrid. In 1997 he did so with a side that scored a creditable 85 goals. Ten years later, he landed the title again for Real, but with 19 goals fewer, and was sacked for the insufferable monotony of the football. The difference lay in the respective squads, which were largely assembled by the sporting director.
Pragmatists are not necessarily dull. Capello will do whatever makes sense and that could encompass the incandescent football of Milan when they overwhelmed Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 European Cup final. With England, he has restored order, but he has also tried to accommodate the forthright traits of the game in this country.
The total of 26 goals to date in the qualifiers is far greater than any other side in Europe. That statistic may not tell us anything much about what the future holds in matches of a different calibre at the World Cup finals, but it shows Capello going with the tumultuous flow of English football. His clean sheets in the World Cup have been restricted to games with Andorra and Kazakhstan. He does get exasperated by the lapses and his impact has been at its weakest in the defence. Micah Richards was immediately axed when Capello took over as proof that there was no room for callow right-backs in his regime.
The 21-year-old ought not to despair, particularly if he is galvanised by the rise of Manchester City. Glen Johnson is currently the England right-back, but the post must be under review. Like any international manager, Capello can count himself a prisoner of circumstance. He is confined to players with the correct birthplace or bloodline and, ultimately, his achievements may be restricted by them.
Rather than being the imperious character of legend, he continues to scramble for answers. The goalkeeper Robert Green, for instance, was not especially reassuring against Slovenia and the challenger Ben Foster could yet wind up back on the bench at Old Trafford if Edwin van der Sar's know-how should seem beguiling to Manchester United when he is fit again. No wonder Capello keeps David James in mind. That Bilic remark about the loss of spontaneity, the "creative mess" of yore, is exactly wrong. There is improvisation and it is the pragmatic aspect of England's game that has to be pondered. Lampard, for instance, is ready to sit deep beside Gareth Barry, but no one yet speaks of them as a real partnership.
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