i shall be interesting how Roy doesn't in qualifying knowing if he doesn't he will be gone

Technically Hodgson is still unbeaten as England's manager. Capello may have qualified in style but his management of the WC finals was woeful.

It's simple - Hodgson can be a good England manager if he adapts and doesn't keep repeating the same old mistakes. But I fear that he is just as stubborn as the rest.

Sorry mate ukraine or poland in summer is not the same as england.
KopPrphet you clearly havent learned anything yourself if you thinkn hodgson deserves to take england to the world cup

I think Hodgson will win the world cup in 2014 for England and then return as Liverpool manager.

You heard it here first.

England "blew up" in s africa and got hammered by a german side (also not aqauainted with south african weather funnily enough), don' t think cappello was a good choice for england although i do think he's a great manager. The fa didn't learn from erikson that foreign managers doesnt work for the english national team. Even if Ferguson wanted the chalice, which he never would i wouldnt want him near the england job.

Typical european climate doesnt exist. It was probably hotter in ukraine than S.A anyway. Weathers no excuse for being beaten in south africa by germany we were rubbish and still are as a team

nothing new there liverpool fans like to re-appointting ex failed manager .

pair of old blue rinses!

Perhaps. England are supposedly in the top handful of footballing countries in the world, and they should be able to struggle past powerhouses like Montenegro and Luxembourg regardless of who is in charge. If England under Capello can reach the quarter finals of a World Cup, then England under anyone at the European championships (where strictly better sides like Uruguay, Brasil and Argentina cannot compete) to go out at the same stage can only be viewed as a failure.

And how about South Africa then? having a go at England !!

How dare you!

You never even qualified for the Euros how bad is that?

I dont buy this argument abou QF at world cup is better than QF at euros. Outside argentina uragauay and brazil there are no other teams that i can think of (outside of europe) who would 'expect' to beat england. So how much more difficult is the competition at the world cup than the euros?

Apart from that the risk of meeting one or more of these 3 south american eams is spread as more teams are entered into the world cup competition ( at the finals stage) Cappello failed at only getting to the QF of the world cup he had enough ttime if i remember rightly to plan for 2010 , hodgson didnt .