Roger Alton Roger Alton

Spectator Sport | 17 October 2009

Africa’s time has come

issue 17 October 2009

Africa’s time has come

You couldn’t ask for a more devoted fan of Fabio Capello than me, but thank the Lord for that over-excitable defeat in the Ukraine last weekend. While the brow-furrowed Italian has turned an underachieving bunch of good players into a remarkably high-performance Roller of an outfit, something of a Lehman-style bubble had started to grow around England.

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