cappeloWhat does Fabio Capello have in common with the managers of Brazil, Argentina, France, Chile, Ivory Coast, South Korea, Denmark, Ghana, Serbia, USA, Slovenia, Paraguay, Algeria, Honduras, Slovakia, Uruguay, North Korea and Nigeria?
Capello earns the same amount as all the others. Put together.
Yes, according to Spanish paper Marca, for the same price as the England manager you could afford a brains trust of the bosses from 18 of our World Cup rivals.
The £6.1 million Capello gets paid every year is more than three times the amount earned by the next best-rewarded boss – his countryman, World Cup-winning Italy coach Marcello Lippi.
On the face of things, it looks like a shocking waste of money and another example of outrageous largesse from the suits at Wembley. But then you look at the managers of the major teams named in the above list.
There’s Raymond Domenech and Diego Maradona, two of world football’s bigger laughing stocks, and two men who have ensured their countries have significantly less chance of winning the tournament than they ought to. And there’s Dunga, who appears to have done a good job with Brazil so far but is as yet unproven at squeaky-bum time.

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