Fabio Capello reveals his debt to the Theatre of the Absurd
Discussion on the England coach Wayne Rooney’s red card was a farce of non sequiturs, and hidden meanings
I do not know if anyone has considered releasing Geoff Shreeve-Fabio Capello talks like a CD or other form of entertainment, but I’m sure those of us who remember the theater of the absurd, then in vogue in the 1960′s and 70′s, the like the intellectual challenge of the collection through them again to try to discover a deeper meaning.
Communication failure has been the central theme of comedy Absurdistan, which questioned the ultimate purpose of human existence – and who among us has not done that in the match England – so that the audience nodded wisely non sequitur, of save them for later analysis, is sitting cross-legged on the floor, a plate of spaghetti bolognese and a glass of red wine.
Montenegro, England, Sky, tireless Shreeves was cast as a wise, Nodder, and while Glenn Hoddle and Jamie Redknapp avoided the chance to sit cross-legged on the floor Studio – the idea for the future of football Sky show, which can be one for me – they are usually accused of giving a sense of poor post-match discussion.
In the theater of the absurd, always signs against the tide, and if you have never seen a play by NF Simpson and Samuel Beckett, you may be familiar with the unity of the work of the late Peter Cook, and some of the sketches of Monty Python. A particular piece came to mind during the execution of Fabio on Friday, one in which Cook played the head of Scotland Yard is asked about The Great Train Robbery. It is important to note that Cook told his inquisitor that the train itself was not stolen, there was no actual loss of the train, just the content, and in fact the police were very good keep track of trains not lost one since 1943.
Wayne Rooney will be sent to the shadow of England over the next eight months. Following the red card on the front in the 2-2 draw with Montenegro last week, Fabio Capello has decided to use it only as a substitute until he has served his suspension to the final Euro 2012 in June, UEFA will decide on Monday whether the attacker should not be used for a game or two.
“Without the sending off of Rooney, we would have won,” said the leader, as he described the consequences of firing the second player’s international career. “Sometimes it comes on half the time, but not from the beginning;. He will not start We have to prepare the first XI, which begins in euro. “. Sardonic humor lightened the mood a little when Capello added.” It will be cool ”
There was also a warning that Rooney should not assume that it will cease to be a simple substitute for the final. “I have lots of strikers at the moment, very good step forward,” said Capello. “In my life as a manager, I put on the bench for many players.”
The only consolation for Rooney came in the fact that the manager will take him to the Euro 2012, Capello was still sentenced to highlight the alternatives and distributed more compliments than usual. “Danny Welbeck [Manchester United] played 15 minutes [against Montenegro] and played really well and it gets interesting when we play against Spain [in a friendly at Wembley on Nov. 12] that these new players start.”
Rooney will not participate in this fixture at all. Another friendly against Portugal, has scheduled three days later, as these opponents are not in the Euro 2012 play-offs. Capello is keen to experiment with team selection and tactics. She wants to study the emerging talents of young strikers like Chelsea, Daniel Sturridge.
Its investigations will continue in the players with the power to serve a target. Andy Carroll and Bobby Zamora in this category. In addition, Jermain Defoe, a completely different type of center-forward at Tottenham Hotspur, has caught his eye again, although it was not a party in Montenegro.
“Defoe and Sturridge, these two,” said Capello when asked after the draw last week about the strikers in their thoughts. “For this game, I selected five players. I wanted to see Zamora, Andy Carroll [training]. It was the third or fourth time Andy with us. Zamora is an interesting player and we have to see him play against some big teams. We will.
“I saw the game against Arsenal Defoe played [in the 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur] and he really played well, ran much, much more depressed. Sturridge is the same. I have to find the solution to the first game or two games Rooney will not play. And if we find the solution has to work to return to the first XI. ”
In reality, of course, Capello can not be separated in his mind, the class Rooney player. Before the red card before she was involved in the formation of both England goals. Later, it was the dismissal and its aftermath, which has gotten the attention. If UEFA consistent, Rooney may remain in the first two group games of Euro 2012.
A vengeful misdemeanor Andrey Arshavin in a qualifying match with Andorra has led to the suspension of the Euro 2008. The Football Association still hopes Rooney will miss the first match in England.
Rooney has not been a substitute for his country since the 2006 World Cup, when an ankle injury limited his match against Trinidad and Tobago.
At the time, no pain This can be seen in his mind. Capello was infuriated by unnecessary red card against Montenegro, but Rooney has lost, because he had lost a ball.
The manager was sure that the player was imperturbable temperament despite the arrest of Father Rooney as part of a police investigation suspected of Paris, but the management of Montenegro said that he could have played a role in their subsequent expulsion.
Professional confidence in front of Capello was wrong, and speak in memory of the collapse of the Italian mind.
Cynics may think that the player has enough of a star for UEFA to be lenient. Capello intends to marginalize Rooney until June could be the greatest difficulty at all. It is almost possible that the front may by then have to worry about his place in the starting line-up.
Rooney has had an eventful career, but is curious about the area. Even if he does not need to justify themselves targets, would go a long in England, as if someone puts a key role in a more direct threat.
Tournaments cause problems in the life of Wayne Rooney. And vice versa. Broken metatarsal cards, red pepper spread apathy and their attempts to be known as a great footballer. This time, started early, drawing a suspension for the start of Euro 2012 with a low blow a champion of Montenegro in a game England were winning when he lost his self control.
Rooney dismissal lacked the ramifications of the expulsion in Gelsenkirchen in 2006. That day will be placed in the ineffable Ricardo Carvalho in the World Cup quarterfinals. Cristiano Ronaldo winking at the Portugal bench threatened to drive a wedge between the two colleagues from Manchester United and became a cause celebre in deflation, England, angry.
This time, the national team in their group ran an evening of entertainment for rich, wonderful contempt of Montenegro and the invasions of the fans are unhappy at home. For 18 minutes, held on without their best player. But one can not escape the futility of self-destructive Dzudovic Miodrag kick Rooney, a day after the England striker’s father was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the setting of an alleged scam where a system of Scotland.
Before Wolfgang Stark reached for his red card Rooney was brought up to hate. England lost 2-0 after their half hour from the most powerful individuals have grown increasingly difficult, hunching his shoulders and spasms in her arms the ball went off the road every time, bounced off the leg, and a promising position.
The catalyst for most of his tantrums, is the mediocrity of his teammates or neglect in their own room. However, the darkest cloud seemed to have erased from his mind, with peace returning to private life and the United States to find a new impetus to the house. The memory of him screaming obscenities from the mouth of a device for West Ham has decreased. The damage here was immediate and projected in the summer. Fabio Capello’s team for Euro 2012 the first aircraft will be a selection of engagement, while the star is sitting in his place.
Rooney has not lost his cunning and skill to produce a meaty challenge United. He is intelligent in its retaliation first. Mainly, however, has no risks wrath of Sir Alex Ferguson with a score of settling out of the ball. England games have become the stage where he surrendered to his demons. World Cup, I remember, was dull and boring, as harmless to the ground, because he had taken the field.
Coming changes is the most likely explanation is deprived of his behavior in South Africa. So people are forced to speculate today about the effect her father’s arrest in connection with an alleged crime that is too close to home: football, Rooney away from his land.
Rain and ridicule was the end of the English Football European final qualifying campaign matches. It meanders a small Balkan state, where the men escaped Wembley Capello neurosis a night of rain and relief. The price is a bad first chance to compete against Spain in a friendly match.
So the England players for Capello stuck with another tournament and the same Don Fabio a second chance and the last to lift the “sick man of Europe” label in the country will pay 6 million pounds a year on the grounds that is certainly capable of handling the internal management of the national team.
The biggest test was Phil Jones, 19 years on average from the center deployed at right-back and Darren Bent, chosen ahead of Danny Welbeck and Bobby Zamora. Jones has forgotten fullback, but broke through in the four again by force of talent, ahead of two specialist right-back, Micah Richards and Kyle Walker, who must be tired of cold shoulderings Capello.
Is it a new facet England? Not really. From burlesque of Bloemfontein, is Joe Hart is an automatic choice in goal and Matthew Upson has disappeared. But Glen Johnson, John Terry, Ashley Cole, James Milner, Gareth Barry, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Rooney and Jermain Defoe (all starters on the day) is always on stage.
Scott Parker, 30, is an old face again, Ashley Young broke into the image on the left, Jack Wilshere has brought a ray of Spanish sunshine and Jones will likely exceed Gary Cahill on the center-left, before the next summer, with Welbeck and Tom Cleverley perhaps also on the hunt for caps. Adam Johnson and Stewart Downing are the other candidates off: one of the most important areas of England after several years of famine.
But it is hardly a revolution – at least that Capello pushes change in the next eight months. The question now is whether the balance tips in favor of young and hungry and far from the demoralizing and fatalistic.
This is the last game before the Euro 2012 competition tougher and more stressful every stage of the game. Best teams to control games, not so good, but I hope to have done them. It helps when the player puts the top of the most talented team – and remains in the field.
UEFA has pledged to “pay attention” to the treatment of Marseille fans outside after accepting the complaints of the fans of Manchester United who were beaten by police and subjected to crush dangerous.
Marseille, Arsenal, who host October 19 changed access to the Stade Velodrome after UEFA started to investigate the events before and after the United match in France in the last 16 of Champions League in February.
A lot of supporters ‘groups, such as red Breakaway, have been working with the Football Supporters’ Federation to launch a full investigation of reports of fans after UEFA held the position, which is known as the Hall 7, before the game and hit The batons. After the game, there was only one door to go through the reports and injuries.
UEFA General of the match operations, Marl Vouillamoz, the federation wrote to say he has “no reason to doubt the veracity of the accounts of true events” and that there was “a negative attitude Police supporters in general. ”
Vouillamoz wrote that “UEFA should pay attention to the treatment of adherents away from this place during the next season,” although he noted the problems caused by “delay of many supporters of U.S. and the unusual behavior of a small minority.”
UEFA studied a safety report from Marseille last month home game against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League to see if the incident was a U.S. compensation or a part of something more serious.
“We will speak of Marseilles,” writes Vouillamoz. “It is, however, the interest that the report highlights a plan to improve access for supporters and improve facilities in Hall 7. These changes include queuing systems and better control … and support to smaller groups on previous occasions. ”
The Guardian was told by senior figures in the Greater Manchester Police, were deeply dissatisfied with the actions of their French counterparts, believing that they were “Baton-happy ‘and ignoring advice from the police, who regularly travel to the United supporters, and had been warned by many fans would be too late.