Friday,
December 14, 2007
Fabio Capello,
New Manager of
The
ANNOTICO Report
It
seems that Capello's biggest problem with the English
Team is the WAGs. That's Wives and GirlFriends of the Players !!!
It
appears that the WAGs have been a GIANT Distraction
to all the players, which Capello will be calling on
his wife to assist him with.
Does Fabio Capello
Spell the End for WAGs?
Telegraph.co.uk -
Cristina
Odone
;
December 14, 2007
Prima donna
airs, OTT exhibitionism, and an addiction to the dolce vita rather than hard
work:
Armed with steely discipline, boundless imagination, and sterling values, I predict that Capello will transform his over-paid and underwhelming charges.
The rebirth of the
With the
He will perceive their non-stop shopping, partying, hedonistic lifestyles and love affairs with the paparazzi as detrimental to his players.
You can't breathe, eat and drink football if your girlfriend is constantly popping up - and popping out of her bustier.
Capello's style is understated and classic and the vulgar apparel favoured by WAGs will, in his view, damage the team's image. The builder's-bum trousers, five-inch heels and everything-up-front tops favoured by the WAGs are the very opposite of the bella figura which Capello, like all self-respecting Italians, admires.
Even now, as the signature dries on his contractive contract, is he trying to persuade Laura, his elegant wife of 40 years, to give the WAGs a crash course in true Italian fashion?
Under the watchful eye of Signora Capello, Alex Curran - Steven Gerrard's wife - and her companions would be stripped of their bling and chav gear and encouraged to purchase serious jewels and clothes from seductive, but not in-your-face, designers such as Armani.
Out goes the tat, in comes the tailored and the tasteful, with shopping trips to Rome's smart Via Condotti replacing visits to Cricket, the Liverpool "boutique" credited with pioneering the ultimate WAG look.
The new manager will need to adopt a WAG-free agenda from the outset, erecting a cordon sanitaire around his players before, during and after a match. The women will be banned from the dressing room, from training and from phoning their men.
If they're lucky, they may be able to join their partners to celebrate a particularly satisfying victory; but they will probably be kept at arm's length after a defeat, the better to concentrate the men's minds on their failure.
The only role the WAGs will be allowed to play is as deterrents to the tawdry sexual exploits that overshadow English football. Capello, a devout Catholic, will encourage clean living and family get-togethers. He fears the decadent excesses of post-match partying as the beginning of the end.
This is how the Roman Empire
whimpered to its inglorious fall - and how the
I believe that Capello's influence will reach well beyond the confines of
the pitch. He will restore the tattered national pride of us expat Italians. We are fed up with the ghastly exports and
the sleazy stereotypes that have become synonymous with "Made in
Surely we can do better than the Mafia banker and the oily waiter, better than trashy Nancy Dell'Olio and dumpy Antonio Carluccio?
When the Capellos take up residence in London, they will no doubt occupy a place at the head of the well-heeled Italian community in Knightsbridge and Chelsea, which includes Gianfranco Zola, the much?loved former Chelsea striker, and Carlo Colombotti, the well-connected lawyer and restaurateur.
For Italians, the white-fronted
houses in leafy and decorous garden squares are one of
Drop by for dinner and you will
hear Italian spoken - predominantly with a
Once Capello
takes up the reins,
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