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‘Fabio Capello stopped us from going swimming with sharks. I was fuming!’ Joe Cole on the England squad’s boredom at the 2010 World Cup

Fabio Capello.

By the 2010 World Cup, England had made failing to meet expectations something of an art form.

With the Golden Generation unable to make it past the last-eight of a major international tournament, Fabio Capello was the man in the dugout for the Three Lions’ tilt in South Africa that summer.

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