IF ENGLAND expect to succeed in the World Cup it’s about time that the John Terry-Wayne Bridge saga was put to bed (excuse the pun).

The moralists have made a crisis out of a mundane situation that is threatening a country’s football ambitions. It’s time to decide whether we want a successful football team or tacky paparazzi because, the person who is suffering more than most is Fabio Capello.

He is on a hiding to nothing whatever decision he makes. He can well do without the pressure from the press as he was appointed as a football manager and not as the devil’s advocate.

What we want is less hype and more hope.

T Seale, Middlesbrough