[Shaun]

Apparently. Just came up in red on the BBC News website that the FA have confirmed it.

[King Gizzard]

Spurs fans ****ting themselves everywhere

[Locke.]

Yeah just broke on SSN then.

Looking like a good day for Harry Redknapp

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Spurs fans ****ting themselves everywhere

[Samuel.]

'Arry to England, Rafa to Spurs.

[Harry!]

Great from a poxy non Englishman to a foul poxy Portsmouth trator. Next please!

[Locke.]

Originally Posted by Samuel.

'Arry to England, Rafa to Spurs.

Hodgson to Spurs

[Shaun]

Fabio Capello has resigned as England manager, the Football Association has confirmed.

Capello resigned after a meeting with FA chairman David Bernstein and general secretary Alex Horne at Wembley.

An FA statement read: "The Football Association can confirm that Fabio Capello has today resigned as England manager."

On Monday, the Italian publicly challenged the FA's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy.

The FA's statement continued: "The discussions focused on the FA Board's decision to remove the England team captaincy from John Terry, and Fabio Capello's response through an Italian broadcast interview.

"In a meeting for over an hour, Fabio's resignation was accepted and he will leave the post of England manager with immediate effect."

Bernstein said: "I would like to stress that during [the] meeting and throughout his time as England manager, Fabio has conducted himself in an extremely professional manner.

"We have accepted Fabio's resignation, agreeing this is the right decision. We would like to thank Fabio for his work with the England team and wish him every success in the future."

A media conference with Bernstein and the Club England management team will take place at Wembley Stadium on Thursday at 1200 GMT.

The FA will not be making any further comment until the media conference.

More to follow.

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[Mystic Mock]

Harry Redknapp would be a good England Manager,I just hope Spurs get a good replacement in if he leaves.

[Marc]

don't do it Harry

[Incensed]

Only man for the job for me is Martin O'Neil, but it ain't gonna happen!

I expect Stuart Pearce will be caretaker Manager until the summer then Redknapp will take over.

[joeysteele]

No loss at all is Fabio going as far as I am concerned, he has really done nothing for his massive wages overall.

I do think Redknapp would be a good England Manager although I am not that keen on him and dislike totally his atrocious treatment of Roman Pavlyuchenko while at Tottenham.
Having said that,if someone is going to have a fair chance of bringing more recognised success for England then Redknapp is a man likely to do so I would say.

[MTVN]

Apparently Capello said Terry shouldn't have the captaincy removed before the court had reached a verdict, which I agree with really. I think it's a shame, he had the best win record of any English manager, although he wasn't in charge that long I suppose

[MTVN]

Surely only one man for the job as well

[Shaun]

it's a shame. yet another victim of the absurdities of the FA.

[King Gizzard]

He had a phenominal record apart from the tournament, I don't get the massive hate for his reign, he just was naive at the world cup

Stuart Pearce has been put in charge as a caretaker. AWFUL MANAGER

[bbfan1991]

Not surprised considering recent events and his wages were a joke too.

Too much pressure with that job and England are always overrated, who would want to manage them knobs of players? Redknapp might change his mind about wanting to do it now he was found innocent yesterday at his trial but Guus Hiddink is interested.

Stuart Pearce in temporary charge now...

[King Gizzard]

Warnock would be amazing

[bbfan1991]

Sven come back

[joeysteele]

His record is dire, he may have won some good matches but we got to the quarter finals of the World cup in 2002 and 2006, in 2010 under him we only got to the second round.
I doubt under him that Euro 2012 would have brought success for England either,how could you have Terry as Captain in a side with all that is hanging over him and also the possiblity of Rio Ferdinand playing.

Yes, innocent until proven guilty is the right way, but John Terry appears to be a loose cannon,the Wayne Bridge issue and now his current problem.
In my view the court case on this matter should have been dealt with before Euro 2012,not deferred until after it,however having said that Terry seems to be a player who cannot control himself and that's not a good recommendation for being England Captain.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

His record is dire, he may have won some good matches but we got to the quarter finals of the World cup in 2002 and 2006, in 2010 under him we only got to the second round.
I doubt under him that Euro 2012 would have brought success for England either,how could you have Terry as Captain in a side with all that is hanging over him and also the possiblity of Rio Ferdinand playing.

Yes, innocent until proven guilty is the right way, but John Terry appears to be a loose cannon,the Wayne Bridge issue and now his current problem.
In my view the court case on this matter should have been dealt with before Euro 2012,not deferred until after it,however having said that Terry seems to be a player who cannot control himself and that's not a good recommendation for being England Captain.

Win percentage of 66.7%, the best of any England manager, second is Alf Ramsey with 61.1. He messed up a bit at the World Cup but at least he managed to get us there, and to this summers Euros, with ease, coming off the back of failing to qualify for Euro 08. There's still a lot of problems with England as well but I think he would have done a lot better if he'd stayed on for Euro 2012, and given the chance to correct his mistakes.

[King Gizzard]

I was confident under him for the euro's, he has already rectified his WC mistakes in some matches,

but now we're ****ed with Pearce then Harry coming just in time for the Euro's with no training with the team under his belt

[Novo]

would rather go into a Major tournament with little hope i think in 2006 and 2010 there was to much pressure on the team to perform, everyone had high hopes for us maybe this time around though with all that's being going on the pressure might be of a little and we can actually enjoy playing football rather then Panic in every area of the field

[Ramsay]

fml

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Win percentage of 66.7%, the best of any England manager, second is Alf Ramsey with 61.1. He messed up a bit at the World Cup but at least he managed to get us there, and to this summers Euros, with ease, coming off the back of failing to qualify for Euro 08. There's still a lot of problems with England as well but I think he would have done a lot better if he'd stayed on for Euro 2012, and given the chance to correct his mistakes.

Surely though, the whole point of being England manager is to win the really 'big' games, there is no point in winning all the build up games in any international tournaments,thereby seemingly having a successful format, to go on to then fail miserably in the really big tests. He had years of preparation for the 2010 World cup and it turned out to be a really dire show overall for England and as I said, in 2002 and 2006 with less successful managers in the build up games then, England made the quarter finals both times, under Capello they only got to the 2nd round.
That's doing worse, not doing better in a massive International tournament.

If you do really great work as to the presentation and buld up games but then fail to have anything to show at the end of it then that constitutes failure and in life there are no prizes for failure in sport.
He would have likely kept John Terry close and likely even played him in Euro 2012,the players knowing that as far as Capello was concerned,Terry was his preferred Captain, that could have had further problems within the team so I doubt England would have done any better than in the World cup and not come out on top.

John Terry has been charged with racial abuse,yes, he is innocent until proven guilty of course but there are other players in the England team who need to be protected too just in case he is not innocent of the charge.
Someone ordinary in most work, charged with any criminal offence, whether innocent or not, would at the very least be suspended from their work until the case was heard,maybe even dismissed altogether if it was 'their' work related matter.
Capello's support for Terry, shows he is a loyal man to those he likes but in the big picture, he was putting one man above the whole team,thereby that is bad management,extremely misguided and likely detrimental to team morale.

I do see where you are coming from and 66% of wins under him does seem impressive, sadly most of the other 34% negative results are in actual tournaments of major competitions.
As anywhere it's the really big matches/finals and their results which determine success or not.