Oh Cap!

Fabio Capello has resigned as England boss after the John Terry racism scandal

Capello, 65, resigned after criticising (on Italian television) the English FA's decision to strip John Terry of his captaincy.
Under Capello England have won 66.67% of their matches (28 wins-8 draws -7 losses)

The highs

* It all started on 6th February 2008 when England beat Switzerland 2-1 in a mediocre match

*28th May 2008 saw England beat the USA 2-0

*31st May 2008 saw David Beckham be captain for the first time after the 2006 World Cup; England beat Trinidad and Tobago 3-0

*England finally beat Croatia (the team that stopped them going to Euro 2008 in 2006/7 by winning 2-0 and 3-2 respectively) on the 10th September 2008 when they beat them for the first time at Zagreb 4-1 (Walcott scored a hat-trick)!

* With the other qualifiers in  2008, England beat Kazakhstan 5-1 (11 October) and 4-0 (6 June 2009), and 3-1 (15th October 2008) and 3-0 (14th October 2009) against Belarus

*2008 finished with England beating Germany 2-1 ; the first time Germany lost in Berlin for 35 years. This was revenge for England's first loss in new Wembley in August 2007 when they lost 2-1 to them

*On the 9th September 2009 England thrashed Croatia again-this time 5-1. Surprisingly both Lampard and Gerrard scored 2 goals each, showing they can play together (sometimes anyway)

*Before the World Cup England beat Mexico and Egypt 3-1 in 2010 friendlies

*England won a group match in the World Cup when they beat Slovenia 1-0. England actually showed potential that day

*After the World Cup, England's Euro 2012 Qualifying campaign started in September 2010 with a 4-0 win against Bulgaria and 3-1 against Switzerland.

*England were somewhat improved the last few months when they managed to beat European and World Champions Spain 1-0 in  Wembley on the 12th November 2011 (the first time in at least three matches) while also defeating Sweden 1-0 on the 15th. The latter was important as England has never beat Sweden since 1968.

The Lows

* On March 26th 2008 (the second match) England lost 1-0 to France via penalty (Nicolas Anelka was fouled in the penalty area and Frank Ribery scored the winner)

*A lacklustre England survived and drew 2-2 against the Czech Republic in Wembley on 18th August 2008

*England lost 2-0 to Spain on 12th February 2009 and, against Holland on the 12th August 2009, came from 2-0 down and drew 2-2

*England beat Ukraine 2-1 on the 1st April 2009 but on the 10th October they lost 1-0 and the 100% qualifying record was broken. Keeper Robert Green was also sent off after fouling Artem Milevskiy

*In Qatar on the 16th November 2009 England were beat 1-0 by Brazil

* Against Japan on the 31st May 2010 England beat Japan 2-1; only after trailing 1-0, Lampard missing a penalty and Japan scoring 2 own goals

*During the 2010 World Cup (surprisingly replacing Walcott for Heskey), England started the first game against USA all guns blazing and Gerrard scored after 4 minutes but a weak (and slow) shot by Dempsey that was stopped by Robert Green slid under him and caused the USA to equalise.The match ended 1-1 and caused England to be group runners-up after scoring less overall goals than USA

*The second match against Algeria was a 0-0 and dissapointment

*Germany and bad-refereeing sent England's ego crashing down in the second round of the World Cup. After going 2-0 down in the first half, England equalised just before the end AND a long range shot by Lampard went over the line after bouncing off the crossbar but was DISALLOWED as the assistant referee Mauricio Espinosa didn't see it and neither did the main one, Jorge Larrinoda. England went on to be thrashed 4-1 and humiliated

*England's first loss since the ridiculous World Cup campaign was a 2-1 friendly loss to France in November 2010

*England failed to beat Montenegro in October 2010's Euro 2012 qualifier, drawing 0-0. England couldn't crack Montenegro the following year and drew 2-2 but sealed qualification

The Future

Harry Redknapp is the favourite set to succeed Capello, especially since he was cleared of tax evasion charges on the 8th February 2012 after a 13-day trial. He may be English, passionate and successful with Tottenham and Portsmouth but it is worrying since he couldn't keep Southampton from relegation in 2005.

Other potential coaches include Sven-Göran Eriksson , Guus Hiddink, José Mourinho, and home-grown  Terry Venables and Alan Shearer.

For now England has Stuart Pearce to take charge