Disasters? Seriously?
Capello had a 66.7% win record, Southgates was 59.8%
Also worth mentioning Capello had arguably the least talented squad compared to Southgate and Sven. Capellos squad for the 2010 world cup was
England's 30-man provisional squad
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart, David James, Robert Green.
Defenders: Leighton Baines, Jamie Carragher, Ashley Cole, Michael Dawson, Rio Ferdinand, Glen Johnson, Ledley King, John Terry, Matthew Upson, Stephen Warnock.
Midfielders: Gareth Barry, Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Steven Gerrard, Tom Huddlestone, Adam Johnson, Frank Lampard, Aaron Lennon, James Milner, Scott Parker, Theo Walcott, Shaun Wright-Phillips.
Forwards: Darren Bent, Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Emile Heskey, Wayne Rooney.
Sven had a win record of 59.7% which is 0.1% better than Southgate. I loved Sven, and he had arguably a better squad overall than Southgate, especially the back 5.
To say both were a disaster though is absolute bollocks.
Only reason Southgate is regarded so highly is because he made it to 2 finals, which fair play is a small achievement but he still won the same as Capello and Sven.
wtf is this implication that Capello wasn't a disaster?
Capello qualified with authority and gave us the 1-4 win over Croatia, great. He then failed to manage the squad at 2010 with such devastating inadequacy that it would be regarded as one of the worst-run tournament camps ever if not for France being somehow worse in the same tournament. He was undoubtedly an excellent tactician, his career shows that, but there can't be any sanitising of how badly he handled that World Cup. He is the example of how a genius tactician not only doesn't guarantee success, it doesn't even guarantee a 5/10 performance. Southgate may be an inferior tactician to someone like Capello but his handling of tournament camps was largely terrific (though I think Euro 2024 was a tournament too far).
England had some world-class players in 2010 and a fortunate draw - the kind of "easy draw" that people have used to caveat everything Southgate did. I don't care for people's opinions about the specifics of the squad, the players there should have beaten USA and Algeria, and they should have beaten what would have been Ghana in Round 2. Then Uruguay in the QFs, fine, maybe they'd lose that or to Netherlands in the Semis. What they shouldn't have done - what there is no excuse for - is draw with Algeria, draw with the USA, finish second in the group and play against Germany with such complete tactical naivety that they get thrashed - because, yes, by the end Capello was so done that even the defensive solidity you would expect was thrown away in favour of a suicidal defensive line that was exposed again and again.
I do wonder if he'd have handled the 2012 Euros better having learned from his mistakes, but he screwed up on TV and that was that.
(E.G.:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/16...ol-freak-capello-and-chaos-at-2010-world-cup/ )