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
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