The dust is just beginning to settle on a week that could forever change the footballing world. The decisions to send the 2018 and 2022 World Cup’s to Russia and Qatar has left a sour taste amongst all the unsuccessful bidders. But was FIFA’s snubbing of bids from England and the USA all part of a contingency conspiracy theory?

Speculation is starting to mount that FIFA declined proposals from England and the USA, in a bid to ensure the two countries with the most impressive footballing infrastructure could be free to host a tournament if one of the upcoming hosts fails to live up to the promises in their bid.

Premier League chairman Richard Scudamore has added further fuel to the rumours. Speaking after learning the true extent of England’s failure in the bidding process, Scudamore said: “What’s gone against us is not having to build 20 new stadia. It almost feels as if we are on standby for when somebody can’t host it. “

While both Russia and Qatar come with obvious risks, it is said to be the 2014 World Cup in Brazil causing FIFA the most concern. The South American nation were awarded the tournament in 2007 but since then progress on the building work of the 12 stadiums has been slow.

But it is the countries infrastructure which is creating real problems. The vast land of Brazil means that air-travel is the only feasible way for visitors to travel between the host cities, but there have been massive delays in the improvement of Brazil’s air travel.

Speaking last week. International Air Transport Association chairman Giovanni Bisignani warned that if Brazil didn’t begin plans to improve its airports then tournament could be a “national embarrassment.”

Bisignani said: “I don’t see much progress and the clock is ticking. We must get all the stakeholders to the table and finalize a plan.” The views were echoed by Brazilian World Cup winning captain Carlos Alberto who was far from happy after waiting seven hours for a flight from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro.

Alberto said: “That can’t happen at the World Cup. It is really shameful what is happening with the airports, our expectations are great. We need to deliver the best World Cup but we have to speed up with the preparations because we are a little slow.”

If FIFA was to pull the plug on Brazil 2014, it would certainly open a door to either England or the USA, who are the only countries that could host a tournament at short notice. It must be said that this is highly unlikely, but the last week has shown just how laughable FIFA is as an organisation and you certainly wouldn’t rule out another conspiracy theory.

After a hectic start to the Premier League season attentions now turn to England who face two crucial games in five days that will set a trend for Fabio Capello’s next two years in charge of England.

Before the World Cup Fabio Capello could do no wrong. He was seen as the saviour of English football for turning around our fortunes after the disaster that was Steve McClaren’s tenure.  Capello guided England to a near faultless qualification for South Africa that included a stunning 4-1 victory in Zagreb.

All was set for England to mount a challenge for the biggest prize in football. But since the turn of the year things have slowly started to go wrong for England. First there was the John Terry saga; there were then injuries to the likes of David Beckham and Rio Ferdinand before a woefully disappointing World Cup in South Africa.

The pressure was mounting on Capello and only a Steven Gerrard brace rescued the Three Lions from an embarrassing defeat against Hungary. But still England fans are unsure whether Capello is the man to take the side forward.

This makes the games against Bulgaria and Switzerland absolutely vital to Capello. Football fans are fickle and two positive results may just be the catalyst for the positive feeling to return amongst England fans. But anything less than six points and all confidence will be lost in Capello.

But if England fans are demanding six points Capello has got two very tricky games in which to deliver them. Bulgaria will be like most teams that come to Wembley and up their game accordingly, so England shouldn’t take this game lightly. Switzerland on the other hand will pose a very stern test for Capello’s side and their win over Spain at the World Cup shows just how dangerous they can be.

With England missing the likes of Terry and Frank Lampard, and Wayne Rooney desperately short of form the task of six points becomes a whole lot harder. However Capello has managed to pick England up once before and if he could do it again this week it may just be the end of a rocky few months.

With a few weeks perspective after another predictable and disappointing quad-annual collapse by the latest version of England’s best-team-in-a-generation, the FA is starting to weigh in.  In article published yesterday in the Mirror, the FA revealed its new strategy – groom an English coach to take over for Fabio Capello in two years, bring a few more youngsters into the team and look at the way the Spanish national team trains.

Sorry, but that just won’t do the trick.  The sad truth is that England is a long way from producing a team that approaches its fans’ overinflated expectations.  Without a radically different approach, the FA is dooming the Three Lions to a permanent position as one of the middling European squads – closer to Denmark or Switzerland than to Spain or Germany.

So, where to start?  First, let’s dispense with the easy quick fixes that will have no real impact.  Whether Fabio Capello, Steve McClaren or the reincarnated ghost of Brian Clough, the name of the current coach has a modest impact on the result.  National team coaches are not like club team coaches whose job is to spot, develop and nurture talent.  Great club coaches excel at making their meal from scratch.  National team coaches must reheat a dinner that has already been prepared by others.

Similarly, other insta-cures will also mean little.  Winter breaks, different formations, and more/less access to the WAGs during the tournament may make for good copy but do not really change the results.  None of these actions will lead to a significant improvement for the Euro 2012 or World Cup 2014.  Instead, what is needed is a complete revolution in English soccer training from the youth on up that can yield a better result in 8-10 years.

First and foremost, increasing the number of skilled, trained coaches in England is vital.  These numbers have been bandied about over the past few weeks, but they need repeating:

Number of coaches by country possessing UEFA’s top coaching qualification:

Germany – 34,970

Italy – 29,420

Spain – 23,995

England – 2,769

Of those smattering of top-qualified English coaches, the majority work with senior players meaning that only a small handful are even available to work with England’s next generation.  With their major rivals having 10 times or more the amount of top coaches, that means that ten times the young players from those nation can receive quality training and develop and hone critical ball skills.  If the FA has any role to play, this would seem to be the most obvious and critical – to commit to increasing the quantity of qualified coaches.

Once those coaches are in place, what should they teach?  Ball control, interior passing and possession retention.  Watching Spain, Holland and Germany move the ball down the pitch like they are PlayStation athletes should be a revelation to every English fan that wants their team to do better.  Who is England’s best dribbler and passer?  Damned if I know.  I do know that watching the English team move the ball around as if it was filled with mashed potatoes rather than air is simply painful.

In a recent interview with The Times, Real Madrid’s Xabi Alonso had a fascinating observation.  He said that when he played for Liverpool, he would occasionally go to their youth academy for meetings with their future players.  He would ask the young midfielders what their greatest skill is, and more often then not, they would be most proud of their ability to tackle.

Alonso believed that tackling is a useful skill, but it is the skill you employ to make up for a failure of position or possession.  If a midfielder is positioned well and dribbles and possesses to affect, they never need to leave their feet.  These new, better-skilled coaches need to train the upcoming generation on smaller, tighter fields where hoofing it forward will have no benefit and where maneuvering the ball is the only path to success.

This entire enterprise will require the most precious commodity that exists in soccer and one that is in short supply in England – patience.  If England had all the good coaches it needed today, the benefit would not be felt for years.  I strongly doubt that the FA has the stomach for such an effort and seems more comfortable devoting resources on white elephants like a national training center and inflated salaries for celebrity managers.

What will it take for the FA to seriously plan for the future?

It may take another Euro/World Cup of despair before the FA really gets serious.  The current generation of Terry, Lampard, Gerrard and Cole are considering retirement rather than going through another cycle of scorn playing against teams they fully realize are their superiors.  The next generation, with the odd exception of Jack Wilshire or James Milner, hardly look like the equals of the current one.

I fear that the English fans will have to demand this change after an even  greater humiliation than South Africa 2010.  At some point, England is in danger of losing its top seed for tournament draws and may miss out qualifying for a significant tournament.  Perhaps at that point, the FA will be willing to concede that the problem with their house will not be solved with a new coat of paint – nothing less than a restructuring of the foundation will suffice.

World Cup 2010 South Africa has now been and gone, a feast of football for a month in the rainbow nation. Here are a few memories of the good and bad for the first World Cup of the decade.

The Good

Paul the Octopus – the world stood still in amazement and in humour, (in particular Germany) held its breath on which mussel would Paul take, that ultimately decided the fate of the nation. Paul’s fame quickly grew as the alleged English born two year old Cephalopod gained a 100% throughout the tournament after fierce competition from Mani the physic Parakeet who predicted a Dutch win in the final. After their semi-final defeat to Spain, German fans called for him to end up on a dinner plate.  He is now arguably the no. 2 fan in Spain behind Andres Ineista.

Ghana – In Africa’s first World Cup expectations were high for the African nations if not to win the World Cup then to put on a display to make the continent feel proud. By the arrival of the knock-out stages Ghana were the only African nation left, after squeezing through a tricky group with Germany. The unity that spread throughout Africa was unimaginable and propelled the Ghanaians’ to the last eight after a deserved victory over the US and were a handball (and a miss penalty) from the semis.

Germany – Vorsprung Durch Technik: The new generation proved to be a big surprise at the World Cup especially in the manner they took Australia, England and Argentina to the sword.  German teams in the past have always been identifiable to how they build their cars: strong, powerful engines, reliable with the occasional touch of class and elegance.  This young team are quick, skilful, strong and direct and have been the best counter attacking team of the World Cup with the likes of Ozil and Mueller.  Watch out for them in 2012 European Championships, they will only get better between now and then.

Spain’s tiki-taka football: Now you could argue that Spain weren’t always at their best in this tournament and only scored more than one goal in a game against Honduras.  But the style, patience and self belief they posses to constantly play the tiki-taka style of football has to be commended. Even when games were very tight entering the last 15 minutes against Portugal, Paraguay and in particular Germany they preserved and persisted with the same formula that has served them exceptionally well in the past.

South Africa ‘dancing out’ against Mexico on the opening day – They have become the first host nation in World Cup history not to qualify to the knockout stages, but their entrance to their opening match against Mexico was simple, breath taking and unique and symbolised the spirit and the coming together of a nation through football.

The Bad

Vuvuzelas – the less said on these ‘swarm of bees’ instrument the better, they were quite simply annoying and have been banned from the Rugby Tri Nations and World Cup in New Zealand next year – such is the impact they have had over the tournament.

Suarez and the Hand of God II – With the quarter final level at 2-2 between Ghana and Uruguay and heading towards penalties, Ghana striker Dominic Adiyah’s goal bound header was handled on the line by Uruguayan centre forward Luis Suarez.  He was subsequently sent off, but with Ghana missing the penalty and then being beaten in the shoot-out 4-2 uproar was felt around the football world. With the Ghanaian Sports Minister Akua Sena Dansua requesting for a rule change for the basketball equivalent of ‘goal-tending’.  What made matters worse was the level of joy and celebration from Suarez after the shootout and his claim to be the new ‘Hand of God’

England, France and Italy choking – three of Europe’s more established nations showed how tactically inept they are with over the hill, out-of-position players and ultra egos to cause player-coach bust-ups.

England: a team who were over-hyped carrying a number of injured players (Ferdinand, Barry, Lennon and Rooney to name a few). Key players playing out of position (Gerrard) and dictator of a manager who was unwilling to change the formation or system to balance the team. Recipe equals winning one of your four games, drawing against Algeria and then getting a football lesson from the young and skilful Germans. And to cap it off Rooney mouthing off to England fans when being booed off the pitch.

Italy: The World Cup winners of 2006 looked a shadow of their former selves, and the problems were all too apparent to see. In previous World Cups I fondly remember the likes of Baggio, Del Piero and Totti all being the central point of an Italian team, giving them the spark, the moment of imagination to unlock a defence. This World Cup they lacked a ‘playmaker’ and that water-tight defence that prided itself on being tighter than the Hoover Dam started to looked wary and show that no anti-ageing cream can avoid their ageing: in-deficiencies particularly from set pieces and quick footed players such as Robert Vittek.

France – C”est sacre bleu, Irish men, women and children alike would have been enjoying this one after the deep injustice that was served to them during last year’s playoff defeat. France are a team glittered with huge stars and egos to match, underperforming and splitting their dummies out when they don’t get what they want.  Domenech decisions need to be looked at closer under a microscope. Why pick Henry? And play Ribery in the ‘hole’ out of position that is not suited to him? But these issues are chicken feed to the deeper problems in the team: first Nicolas Anelka being sent home for verbally abusing Domenech, then Patrice Evra and the fitness coach Robert Duverne having a ‘set-to’, players refusing to train, FFF Managing Director Louis Valentin resigning and finishing bottom of group A.

Goal-line technology – This is very simple, Mr Blatter. Please introduce it ASAP, this was a major embarrassment for FIFA and football when Frank Lampard’s goal that was wasn’t given – fait accompli.

Jubalani – Why is it in every major championship does the issue of the ball arise? Adidas claim it is lighter and faster than ever, with more serve and power.  Quite simple it reminds me of the ones I use to use when I was 10 years old paying £1 from your local shop keeper.  It has more bounce than a beach ball, and made a complete embarrassment of some of the world’s best players (excluding Forlan). For future tournaments Herr Adidas why no just create a simple football with 32 panels and leave it to the skill of the footballer.

Mark Van Bommel (closely followed by the large majority of his team mates) – A player who in this World Cup has been more interested in taking players out with poor tackling rather than using experience and craft to out-perform the opponent.  How on earth he went nearly the whole 90 minutes against Uruguay before getting booked, and was lucky to not be sent off for a horrific tackle on Iniesta’s standing leg in the final.  As for the Dutch tactics on that ill-fated night at Soccer City, it’s all well and good to want to get stuck into your opponents and not give them too much respect and pass you around the park like a game of ‘piggy in-the-middle’ but to truly expect a game-plan to hack and saw your way to winning a World Cup is only going to end in tears once you become restricted to 10-men (or fewer as the case should have been).

Kader Keita – Many people remember Rivaldo’s antics from 2002 against Turkey. This was on an equal par – Keita was elbowed (very slightly) in the chest from Kaka and went down holding his face as if Manny Pacquiao had knocked him out in a title fight. What did FIFA do about it? Nothing!!

It’s a bizarre story. First, in May, before the World Cup kicked off, Fabio Capello along with a man named Chicco Merighi launched the Capello Index, an objective system that measures and evaluates the performances of players. But after the news broke of the ratings system, many people thought it would be in poor taste to have the rankings system running during the World Cup. That included the Football Association (FA) who prevented Capello from running the index during the tournament.

But now that the tournament is over, the people behind the Capello Index launched the site this morning which reveals how poor the England footballers were rated.

However, “A spokesman from the FA said that the index ratings had not been seen or approved by Mr Capello, were published without his knowledge and that his representatives have taken immediate steps to have the material taken down.”

It’s a bit ridiculous, really. Why can’t Capello have an opinion about how the players in the 2010 World Cup were rated even if it includes his England team? Isn’t relatively objective data what it is, a reflection on how a player performed at the top level? Does it look bad that Capello is associated with the index? Perhaps it seems unbefitting of an England manager, perhaps.

Now supposedly Capello is trying to get the index removed from the Internet for fear of embarrassment (too late). So in case it gets wiped away, here’s more information about how the index works and how the England players were rated during the 2010 World Cup:

According to the Capello Index website, the Capello Index uses “a scoring system which takes account of every key event that occurs during the course of a match. The Capello Index has a unique formula that measures a player’s contribution from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. The score a player’s action generates is weighted depending on a number of factors, such as the area of the pitch in which they are completed, their impact on the match and the importance of game.”

The England players were rated as follows (out of a score of 100):

Robert Green 51.67
David James 59.28
Glen Johnson 57.18
John Terry 60.48
Ledley King 57.50
Jamie Carragher 59.04
Matthew Upson 60.21
Ashley Cole 59.58
Aaron Lennon 57.64
Frank Lampard 58.58
Steven Gerrard 60.98
James Milner 59.40
Gareth Barry 57.50
Shaun Wright-Phillips 61.09
Joe Cole 55.45
Wayne Rooney 58.87
Emile Heskey 60.15
Jermain Defoe 62.47
Peter Crouch did not play enough minutes to generate a mark.

In comparison, Diego Forlan achieved the highest score in the 2010 World Cup with a rating of 65.77.

Jermain Defoe scored the highest rating of the tournament for England with a 62.47. Not surprisingly, Robert Green scored a 51.67 after playing just one game and making a fatal mistake although, in fairness, he did earn back some credibility when he saved Jozy Altidore’s shot in the same game against the United States.

In the meantime, you may want to surf the Capello Index website as much as possible this weekend before it’s removed. It’s a bit of a fuss about nothing, in my opinion. What do you think?

English footballer Emile Heskey did the noble thing this week by announcing his retirement from international football. Despite lots of criticism, Heskey was a stalwart for England, making 62 appearances for his country between 1999 and 2010 and contributing a large number of assists and seven goals. He’ll be remembered as a man who always gave his most for his country and has nothing to be ashamed of.

For England to turn a new leaf and begin building a squad that will mark a new generation of English international footballers, it’s imperative – in my opinion – for some of the current England team to also retire. This will then allow new players to come up through the ranks and gain necessary playing time at the highest level.

I’ve often said that the England u-21 side has, for a long time, played much better than the full international squad. The u-21 team has shown much more pace, better technical ability and, most importantly of all, play better as a team than the group of individuals that the England national team play like.

So to give players a chance to compete at the national level, footballers such as Jack Rodwell, Lee Cattermole, Jack Wilshere, Chris Smalling, Andy Carroll, Daniel Sturridge and others, here are my recommendations of which current England national team players should consider retirement:

None of the above players should be ashamed if they retired from international football at this stage in their career. Each has performed well for his country, but it’s time for them to move on. It’s time for a new breed of England national team players to come through the system. It’s time for a transitional period in the England national team structure. It’s time for new blood.

Do you agree or disagree with the above choices? Are there other current England national team players not listed above that you feel should retire? Click the comments link below and share your opinion.

How do I love thee, World Cup 2010? Let me count the ways (in no particular order):

1. Overhearing strangers in public talking about the World Cup,
2. Collecting World Cup Panini stickers,
3. Listening to the national anthems of the 32 countries in the World Cup,
4. Striking up conversations with complete strangers who were soccer fans and, as a result, making new friends,
5. Watching World Cup games in public at local sports bars,
6. Switching on ESPN at any time of the day and seeing World Cup news or games on television,
7. ESPN pundit (and former Swansea City manager) Roberto Martinez,
8. Watching World Cup games on-the-go with my FLO TV Personal Television,
9. Puma’s incredible World Cup TV commercial that I never saw on TV but only could watch online,
10. Ian “Cult Hero” Darke commentating, perhaps, his best tournament ever,
11. Being stunned by the eyepopping TV ratings numbers for World Cup coverage on ABC, ESPN and Univision,
12. Listening to the World Cup Buzz Podcast during my daily commute each morning,
13. Watching World Cup games on ESPN3.com and using the montage feature to watch two games at once,
14. Unlocking World Cup badges on Foursquare, Gowalla and Miso,
15. Watching Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s goal for Netherlands against Uruguay over and over again,
16. Chuckling at Special 1 TV’s episodes from BBC 3,
17. Playing EA’s FIFA World Cup video game with my 6-year-old daughter and seeing her fall in love with the World Cup,
18. The tears of joy that rolled down my cheeks after Landon Donovan scored that goal against Algeria,
19. Seeing the headlines on the front pages of U.S. newspapers nationwide talking about soccer,
20. Hearing the “BP Sucks” chants from US fans aimed at England supporters at Wowies,
21. Meeting EPLNFL and Johnathan Starling for an EPL Talk Chat reunion during the England against USA game,
22. Seeing how Twitter and Facebook were the perfect mediums for soccer fans,
23. Watching an Argentina team (and their supporters) who were so proud of their country and how they played with such passion,
24. Wearing a soccer jersey for practically every day of the World Cup tournament,
25. Explaining to soccer newbies – who seemed genuinely interested – about how the sport works,
26. Seeing a team such as Spain who thoroughly deserved to win the trophy despite their low-scoring,
27. Being pleasantly stunned by the artistry of Uruguay and how I fell in love with them the more they played,
28. Asamoah Gyan,
29. The Ghana players running around the pitch with their nation’s flag in their hands,
30. Seeing Nike’s World Cup ‘Write The Future’ TV commercial which never got old no matter how many times I watched it.

What about you? What things did you love about the 2010 World Cup that you’d like to share with the readers? Please post them in the comments section below.

During the 2010 World Cup, EPL Talk registered its best month ever in terms of web traffic. On behalf of EPL Talk, I’d like to thank you, the readers, for your continued patronage, as well as the continued excellence shown by all of the EPL Talk bloggers (and podcasters) who have worked diligently to produce thought-provoking articles.

To recognize the considerable achievements, EPL Talk distributed a press release to the media this morning. Here it is in its entirety:

EPLTalk.com Reports Record World Cup™ Web Traffic

LAKE WORTH, FL — JULY 14, 2010 — EPLTalk.com, a leading English Premier League blog based in the United States, registered more than 1 million page views during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ between June 11 and July 11.

During the 31-day tournament, EPLTalk.com generated 500,205 unique visitors—the highest number in the site’s history. When combined with traffic from EPL Talk sister sites WorldCupBuzz.com and MajorLeagueSoccerTalk.com, web traffic between June 11-July 11 recorded 1.65 million page views and 966,318 unique visitors.

In addition to the record breaking web traffic, the daily World Cup Buzz podcast — featuring soccer experts Richard Farley, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna — generated more than 258,000 downloads during the 2010 World Cup.

“These results show that informed soccer fans respond to EPL Talk’s quality content and breaking news stories that they’re unable to find anywhere else,” said Christopher Harris, Founder and Publisher of EPL Talk. “Our team of bloggers cover the aspects of ‘the beautiful game’ that matter most to soccer supporters, whether it’s the exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in soccer, or the critically-acclaimed analysis.”

EPLTalk.com, which is one of nine soccer websites in the EPL Talk Network, features daily news and analysis of the English Premier League as well as a focus on world soccer. Founded in 2005, the website features exclusive audio and video interviews, an archive of more than 5,000 articles, free soccer eBooks, and US TV schedules for soccer.

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The 2010 World Cup will be remembered for some terrible open goal misses (Nigeria’s Yakubu as the most blatant example) as well as some horrific goalkeeper mishaps especially during the group stage of the tournament (Robert Green, cough cough). But it will also be remembered for some glorious goals and stupendous saves.

Thankfully, we have two videos which feature the top 10 goals and the top 10 saves of World Cup 2010.

Enjoy the videos.

This may well be the first time that you hear Bobby Goldsboro talked about in the football column and it will almost certainly the last. Bobby, you may or may not recall is a singer who had a few hits in the 60s and 70s, one of which, “Summer (The First Time),” is a song which told the story of how a seventeen year-old boy is seduced by an older woman – a mere 32, mind – on a hot summer afternoon.

For a while because one of the lines says, ‘I looked in her eye and I swore it was winking’ I thought she was actually partially sighted. Here was lad getting it on with a one-eyed temptress. It all sounded good to me.

This song obsessed me as a pubescent 13 year old because it hinted at the unspoken mysteries of the adult world, of the sexual power of women and the power of the summer too; the heat being symbolic of other more groin-based passions. I imagined this was the birthright of every horny teenager; to be made into a man by a sweaty lass with a penchant for young meat.

‘Sweat trickled down, the front of her gown, and I thought it would melt her.’

Quite why she was wearing a ‘gown’ on a 110 degree day isn’t explained. No wonder she was sweating though, eh.

So it is that after every World Cup ends, I recall “Summer (The First Time)” because to me, every World Cup is like that summer love affair; a holiday romance. It starts out with so much passion and ends all too soon.

The post-World Cup feeling is a strange one. It is so all-consuming for four weeks and then as suddenly as it arrived it is gone, consigned to the history books. Those early days in the second week of June now seem an eon away. Days when there was still hope for England seem like distant, tragic delusions.

It is the intense, unique nature of the World Cup that gives it its power. If it happened more frequently, as has been proposed in the past, its exotic pulling power would be diminished.

She is an irresistible mistress who, over the space of four short weeks uses us up and wears us out. There’s a real feeling of being drained after the tournament has ended. We wander around our apartments and houses feeling something important has left us. We seek new routines and habits to replace those that had built up around the football.

And ahead lies a few short weeks of largely football-less living. We shall try and pretend those pre-season tournaments are really, really important and we shall follow the Intertoto Cup but it won’t be a substitute for the rich gravy of the World Cup. Even the Under 19s tournament which begins later this week won’t hit that sweet, sweet spot.

This was my 13th World Cup, the first being in 1966 and each one is like “Summer (The First Time)” and each time, in advance of the competition I forget at just how deeply I fall in love with her. In four years time, I dare say she’ll make a man of him all over again.