Believing just got a little harder…
Rio Ferdinand is the new Captain of the English National club that will duke it out at the World Cup this summer. Good for him. He found he was the new captain by seeing the news on TV. Bad for England.
If anyone wants to challenge my assertion that Fabio Capello is a poor manager that’s fine, but you’d be ignoring the facts.
What’s better is that Ferdinand says he hasn’t talked to Capello in the 3 weeks that he’s been the new Captain. Then he said, about this situation:
“I haven’t spoken to the manager yet. He does it a certain way.”
I’m sorry, but that sounds like code for:
“This man is an idiot!”
And did you notice that he called Capello “the manager”. This feels a little bit like Bill Parcells calling T.O. “the player”. That says everything I need to know.
I fully believe that Rio Ferdinand is happy to be the Captain for England, but he’s pissed off that it happened like this and that his manager is a fool.
I’d be upset too. If you were Ferdinand wouldn’t be be afraid that you’d find out you’d LOST your captaincy on the TV as well?
Fabio Capello, in attempting to deal with his team through the media, has already put-off his new Captain.
Oh, and then media reports came out that the English were putting aside all the crap and scandals. Yeah, so? What’s the difference now? You all already look silly. Notice that they are over the scandals, but they still won’t say that they’re behind John Terry and want to support him.
When Michael Vick got pinched for FEDERAL DOG FIGHTING CHARGES his former teammates said. “We support Mike. We don’t condone what he did, but we support him and wish him the best.”
Take a lesson in class from the NFL…please.
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When did any English national team player say that they aren’t behind Terry on the English national team? You must give REAL proof if such things were actually said and are in fact FACTUAL information. And what REAL proof do you have that Capello is obviously such a terrible manager? If taking part of a quote (and removing the positive part) and then dissecting the crap out of every word in the remaining quote is your only proof then I’m gonna just stick with their national team record this season as opposed to the last few years. Yes he called his manager the manager! Who cares. That is his job and why would he call him anything else? I don’t think you can compare Capello to T.O. yet simply because a player referred to him by his title and not his first name. If Ferdinand referred to him as Fabio fifteen times in a row then you would probably claim there is something wrong with how relaxed the team is too.
And did Rooney not just offer words of support a few days back regarding Terry? And Capello also recently warned English fans to cheer him on rather then boo him on the pitch too. It seems to me that the exact opposite thing has happened regarding Terry’s supposed lack of support from his club. And also Terry was personally told that he would not be captain in a private meeting with Capello, so do you really think he would have Ferdinand’s captaincy stripped without his knowledge or a forewarining when he just met with Terry in the least sneaky way possible a month before?
Oh yeah and the Falcons were super supportive of Vick. What a classy organization and a great example of how to do things. Didn’t there coach that year jump ship before the season ended without telling any one player on the team!? I guess Capello should take some notes on how to do things from Bobby Paterno. Oh and how many games did Vick play for the Falcons after he was arrested? You can look that up on ESPN too. But it won’t be the main article on the main soccer page.
Hey Patton, sorry about all the tirades lately. Having a long week (and short patience) and it’s making me a bit of a donkey. I just feel like you are just continuing to fan the flames instead of taking anything to heart. I get the feeling I could rail all day and night and it isn’t going to make a damn of a difference too. Anyways, I apologize for the nastiness and I am going to stop now. Good day to you.