Players meeting with Capello tonight
By Carly Goodwill
June 20 2010
England's players are set to hold a no holds barred meeting with Fabio Capello to tell him what needs to change to rescue their World Cup campaign.
John Terry has told that the squad will meet with Capello on Sunday evening and discuss possible switches in tactics and personnel for Wednesday's game against Slovenia, which if they lose, will see them leave the World Cup.
During an interview Terry said:
"We have gone to Fabio Capello and discussed possible tactical changes in the past and we will do again if we feel it needs to be done. We've got a meeting tonight, probably to watch the Algeria game to see where we went wrong, which is probably the whole 90 minutes. As a group of players, we owe it to ourselves and to everyone back home, if we feel there is a problem, to say so. There is no point in keeping it in. Whether we have an argument with the manager or it upsets him, us expressing our opinions, everyone needs to get off their chests exactly how they feel. As a group of experienced players, we owe to ourselves, our country and the manager to be honest. If we feel in that meeting tonight things need to change, everyone needs to voice their opinion. If it upsets him or any other player, so what?"
Terry went on to say "Responsibility falls on me, Stevie, Lamps, all the experienced players in the side, to get things going again and that is what we are trying to do. I am not too sure whether he will change personnel, his ways, whatever. But, whatever he does, myself and everyone is behind him.
I'm not going to sit here and question the manager. I'm here on behalf of the team and the players and we are all fully behind the manager.The players were disappointed with the way they performed. I was quite happy with the way we played against USA and we were unfortunate not to win the game. The thing that is keeping me going is this last game, that we can go into this game four days later and prove people wrong."
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