Fabio Capello has resigned in the run up to a major international football, leaving behind his £6 million per year pay packet, although with a little financial sweetener by all accounts. He's resigned over the FA stripping John Terry of the captaincy due to the England defender's pending trial for the alleged racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand.
Most of the papers and many fans are saying that Fabio didn't have a leg to stand on but I have some sympathy for the Italian. Terry hasn't been found guilty yet, and those newspapers who whinge about Capello are the same papers that will resolutely defend the right of someone to be considered innocent until proven guilty, assuming that it will sell papers - stuff the individual if it doesn't. If found guilty then Terry should probably never play for England again and certainly not captain the side.
Brighton manager Gus Poyet, who has a recent record of only opening his mouth to change feet (remember Suarez's incident with Evra?), made a valid point in that the FA have pleased no-one with this decision. Either you do nothing or you ban him totally from representing his country. What the FA have actually done is go halfway, which is utterly (and predictably) spineless, although it has saved them a packet in Capello's wages.
John Terry will still be in the squad for the Euros, whether you think he is guilty or not, so this symbolic "stripping of the captaincy" is totally pointless. Unless of course, the point was to provoke Capello into resigning. We will almost certainly never know.
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