World 2010, England and Germany meet in the round of 16. To remember the eve of that game thinks Peter Crouch, who is still in shock at what he did … Capello.
For England, Germany is the great enemy in football. And never mind if the Germans don’t think so, considering Argentina or France as their historical opponent. For the Southgate team, playing against Flick’s is always a chance to take revenge against a national team that over the years has seen the English rejoice (in 1966) but also often cry bitter tears. Like at the 2010 World Cup, when England and Germany meet in the round of 16. A match marked by Lampard’s ghost goal and which ended with a very heavy defeat for the Three Lions. To remember on the columns of DailyMail the eve of that game Peter Crouch thinks about it, who is still in shock at what he has done … Capello.
DRINK AT DINNER – Don Fabio, British CT at the time, the evening before the Bloemfontein battle, makes an announcement that … shocks everyone. “Fabio Capello, a man who until then had not even allowed us to have butter or ketchup at the table, told us something that none of us could believe: ‘If you want to have a beer or a glass of wine at dinner, you can ‘. Where did that thing come from? Nobody wanted him to make that offer, nobody even thought about accepting it, but the mere fact that he did it shows how badly we were at the 2010 World Cup. I don’t know if Capello had run out of ideas, but that gesture seemed desperate, like when an exasperated parent does something for a spoiled child in the hope that something will change. But inside us, we all knew it wouldn’t work. “
REPUTATION – And in fact it doesn’t work, because Germany makes meatballs from that England. Crouch doesn’t even take the field, because Capello prefers Heskey to him, so he can only watch from the bench yet another great disappointed English hope. But if you ask him about that World Cup, the memory is only one … “What continues to remain in my head is Capello’s proposal on wine and beer. It almost seemed that he didn’t know what else to do to improve the situation, so he thought of giving us something he thought we wanted. For someone with a reputation as important as his, it was an experience that was out of tune “. So, Southgate is warned: no straining to the diet the night before the game!
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