You can figure England will feel betrayed by Capello Index

When England's players slunk out of Bloemfontein after a humiliating hammering by Germany it was difficult to see how things could get worse.

After all, the 4-1 defeat was the heaviest in their World Cup history. They were on the floor.

But Fabio Capello has managed to take them yet lower.

Just three weeks after the St George flags were packed away and the nation began to come to terms with its footballing depression the manager who was supposed to be the steady hand, the brilliant tactician and the strict disciplinarian has become its biggest blunderer.

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Forget Robert Green's fumble which allowed Clint Dempsey's tame shot to squirm underneath his body for the United States goal which led to many of England's problems, the publishing of the Capello Index, rating every player at the World Cup, could have even more far-reaching consequences.

It hardly matters that Capello did not authorise the publishing of the index online.

What does matter is that every England player now knows what Capello, via his computer-generated marking system, really thinks of him.

Poor old Green, hardly surprisingly, gets the lowest average mark of 51.67. Joe Cole, not a favourite of Capello's, comes in at 55.45. Wayne Rooney 58.87, Frank Lampard 58.58, while Gareth Barry and Ledley King score 57.50.

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Jermain Defoe tops the England list on 62.47 and John Terry is second on 60.48, the latter somewhat curious considering Terry went AWOL against Germany when faced with strikers who could seriously test a defence.

To put the marks in some perspective Uruguay's Diego Forlan, who was voted the player of the tournament, scores an average 65.77 by comparison.

It is hardly surprising that England do not have one player in the top 45. After all, they were arguably the most disappointing team at the tournament and that includes France and Italy who made even earlier exits.

What matters is that when the players meet up with Capello before the friendly against Hungary next month each will have his score fixed firmly in his mind along with, one assumes, a sense of betrayal.

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Players' Union chief Gordon Taylor is reported to have described the rankings as "a total breach of trust between a manager and his players".

How could the ill-fated index be viewed in any other way? How can Green or Cole, or any of the other low scorers, now believe they have a future with Capello? How can Capello restore confidence and unity in a squad embarrassed by deep-rooted problems in South Africa when a project with which he is associated has humiliated them further?

If the FA were hoping for a clean line in the sand as England go into their European qualifying matches starting in September then they should think again.

Footballers bear grudges, which is why there was so much resentment towards former manager Glenn Hoddle when he published a World Cup diary following the 1998 tournament revealing dressing room secrets.

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There was, of course, one figure missing from the Capello index. A score for the coaches. On the basis that Spain's Vicente del Bosque might have received 70 for winning the World Cup, Joachim Low 68 for turning the youngest German side for 76 years into semi-finalists and Milovan Rajevac 66 for getting Ghana to the quarter finals where would that leave Capello?

I'm guessing about 51, a shade less than Robert Green.

England Under-19s got their European Championship campaign off to a winning start, with West Ham's Frank Nouble on target twice as Austria Under-19s were beaten 3-2 in Flers.

Nouble put Noel Blake's side in front and doubled his tally just before the half-hour mark,

David Alaba brought the Austrians back into it seven minutes into the second half but Arsenal's Thomas Cruise added a third goal for England moments later. Gernot Trauner made it 3-2 with a 73rd-minute finish but there was to be no equaliser.

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