The ketchup conversation is blatantly having a dig at Ben Foster lol. Yes ketchup isn't that big of a deal but how he handled Foster's wife going into labour tells you all you need to know about him.

If ketchup was on the table England would of defo won the world cup

That awkward moment when the camera panned to the wrong Jamie.

Carragher is such a fresh breath of air to football punditry. He speaks frankly and has a great way of getting the story from players

The most unbiased interview I’ve ever seen .. proper footballing man ..

As a Juventus fan who remembers the Capello era very well and has also followed England closely for 16 years, I think I'm in a good position to judge what went wrong: Whilst I completely agree, pretty much every player at that World Cup was absolute garbage (with the arguable exception of Gerrard), Fabio wasn't blameless. Yes, he's mostly played 4-4-2, but that doesn't mean he can't adapt slightly to his players (Ancelotti did for example, when he worked with Zidane). When Capello was at Juve, the 4-4-2 worked fine against Milan (I'm using them as an example because they fielded a midfield diamond, with an unbelievable CAM, the thing England struggled with the most against Germany), because the two CM's were proper holding midfielders, four of his back five were world-class and even the wingers were workhorses. 1. England had one holding midfielder and Barry actually spent the 09/10 season playing in a 4-4-2, but next to de Jong, ie he was more attacking. As for Lampard, I think everyone knows that he's never prospered in that position, neither going forward, nor defensively. Besides look at Germany's next game (4-0 against Argentina). Argentina had Mascherano as a DM, but due to Maradona's laughable midfield structure, even he couldn't cope with the German onslaught. What's also worth noting here is that, unlike England, Argentina had a CAM (Messi btw) which meant that Schweinsteiger and Khedira played more catiously. 2. Their best player was playing on the left. When he's played there for Liverpool, the two in the middle were Alonso and Mascherano, players who "sit" a lot more and crucially are far more comfortable in those roles than Lampard ever was and clearly better players than Barry. Obviously, it's easy being smart in hindsight and he can't be blamed for his team (pretty much everyone, but in particular the 5 world-class players) underperforming and he was also unlucky with Rio's injury and that Rooney, who'd had the season of his life until March, wasn't fit either. But he didn't help himself with the lineups (particularly against Germany, but it's not like England were any better in the previous games), nor by leaving Walcott out of the squad for Lennon/SWP... Respect if you actually read through this, sorry for the amount of text😂

Credit to Carragher giving Capello some credit

I respect Cara for saying this. Not the first time either. Too many times players use the manager as a shield for their own shortcomings on the pitch. It's unacceptable

Carragher is so spot on.. Erickson and Capello didn’t suit England but have good success at club football playing 4-4-2 it’s the FAs fault for picking a manager that plays 4-4-2 with Scholes Lampard Gerrard in your squad unless he switches to a diamond

Well said Carra👍telling the truth how the players didn’t perform instead of blaming a true one of the greatest managers in Don Fabio Capello. Let’s be honest the players weren’t good enough + they performed below their abilities on top of that. Simple

Carragher giving Capello the credit he deserves. He’s widely respected amongst knowledgeable football fans. Only sour faced ingurland fans blame him.

2010 world cup in 2020 - the great british press fs

I remember that game. At the time it was difficult to take. Looking back, Germany dominated that tournament and fully deserved to beat us.

Fair play to Carragher, not going along with that bullshit

People always asking what might have been about that ghost goal. We were getting destroyed before it and we got destroyed after it. Lucky to be 2 1 down at the time

"He didn't let us out to see the tourist attractions". You're going there to try and win a world cup, not a holiday.

[Won one match and scored a total of 3 goals in 4 matches] England fans: *WE WOULD HAVE WON THE WORLD CUP IF LAMPARD'S GOAL COUNTED!!!!*

Zidane played on the "left" for years at Juve and France, worked out fine. Ever consider that other nations had better players? Who cares about the Lamps goal, Germany were so much better anyway and rightly progressed.

Always remember having same conversations with friend about that squad needing to play 352 to get get best out of it yet FA kept going for 442 managers - was obvious and frustrating watching from pub

Hope the daily mail runs an article about the Roy hodson era especially in 2014 World Cup and 2016 European Championships. Let’s see whose fault it is.

English players need to adapt a must win mentality too long they have been spoilt carragher is right

What that team needed was Jay Bothroyd

the reality is the likes of rooney and lampard never showed up at this world cup or the one before. gerrard wasnt great but he never let anyone down, for example he scored more world cup goals than rooney lampard and scholes put together

2010 was just a string of disasters. Amazing form going into South Africa we had one of the best squads also with experience and a good mix of young and old players. We had an amazing draw as well The US, Slovenia and Algeria going on to play what looked like Serbia pre tournament for a place in the Quarters. We just never looked comfortable, The US game was alright, not great but the Rob Green howler just caused us to slip from there going into the rest of the tournament.

Good on Carragher to take accountability 💯💯

Reasons for failures. 1) One vital player always being unfit going into the tournament; 2) Regardless of Carragher's comments, we were overrun in central midfield because we played 4-4-2 and international football is all about possession, esp given the heat; 3) The players were tired and far below the level they showed during normal the season; 4) Big players not stepping up the way they did week after week for their clubs. Re Capello, given the millions he was paid every year, I think it says a lot that he never bothered to improve his English an iota in all the time he was in charge.

Wasn't Fabio Capello simply showing the similar mentality to Jürgen Klopp, who was trying to say to the team to swallow the bad luck and have belief that they could score three goals in 10 minutes if they wanted too. English media however, prefers to find easy scapegoat.

Mark Hughes goal/no goal against Leeds. That was crazy! Up there with Darren Bent and the beach ball goal against Liverpool.

Euro 2004 was the one tournament I thought had Wayne Rooney not broke his foot in the quarter finals then we win that tournament. James, Cole, Campbell, Terry, Neville, Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham, Rooney, Owen. Bar the goalkeeper everyone of that side has been world class at some point during their career. We were battering Portugal til Rooney went off.

Being England manager ruined the careers of Eriksson and Capello.

John Terry mentioned it the other day when talking with Jamie about there being to long between when the season ends and a major summer tournament started the FA should of started the season later so they would have went straight into a tournament full steam ahead I was always amazed that generation never went further in tournaments considering the player's available

The problem was that the Press picks the team...England had left side options but the press would have hammered them if they did not include both lampard and gerrard in the team

Aaah the visions are back 😅

I think Capello probably was past his sell-by date by the time he was managing England given how fast football evolved tactically from his hay day to the 2010 World Cup. Yes he should've adapted quicker but that's been a failing of so many great managers - some would say Mourinho and Ancelotti are finding the same thing now. But that doesn't change the fact Capello was a vastly experienced manager at the highest level and capable of pulling something off. Especially at an international tournament where managers are generally older anyway and the tactical level is nowhere near club football where they get more time to work with players. E.g. Deschamps won the World Cup. Capello's English was poor which obviously doesn't help at all, but the England National Team had far bigger structural, cultural and tactical issues than Capello and his quirks. Winning a tournament during that era was a huge ask. The argument about him being too stern for the players is just totally irrelevant - it's up to players who consider themselves professionals to adapt to the management style of their coaches and get on with it. Would've liked to see Capello manage England at Euro 2012 but we'll never know now.

Has to be on of the strangest goals along with the ghost ball Sunderland vs Liverpool

Sounding more like Roy keane here but true all the same

Didn’t help that we had Matthew Upson playing in defence and Garth Barry who I remember only came back from a long injury to play in that World Cup 2010..

“2 part investigation by rob draper”. Hahahahahahaha.

4:10 what about Joe Cole?

Carra, legend, on and off the pitch. Love you brother.

exactly carra... about time someone said it

Neuer was smart for threw the ball half court so the game played on

Germany would have still wiped the floor with them even if Lamp's goal had been given.

I really like carraghers insight here he is spot on - For me Germany were faster, fitter and worked much harder than we did.... Capello is a great manager and needed to bring discipline to England... Personally I think our “golden Generation” is much overhyped ... David James was the England number 1 and was far from a world class Goalkeeper which is why he considered using green as the first choice ... Wes brown and Glen Johnson were our right back options and neither were world class... Hargreaves, Barry and Carrick were always injured and we didn’t have a strike partnership up front... The FA interfered with selection which is ultimately why he left the job... I’m pretty much certain that Capellos first choice 11 would have been as follows 4-2-3-1 Green Johnson Terry (C) Ferdinand Cole Carrick Barry Gerrard (RF) Rooney (10) Heskey (LF) Crouch (CF) This to me fits his style of play for both Milan and Roma... he always had two 6s to allow the fullbacks to drive forward so the wide attackers could invert into the box... and for me we did have the players to suit that system ...

All got bastard AirPods in 😂

Carra turning into Roy Keane

Massive respect to Carragher here. Making no excuses and telling it exactly as it it is (was at the time). If you bring Capello in because of his amazing CV you can’t bitch and moan because he doesn’t change his system. Totally agree with all the other stuff too. You go to a WC to try and win it not to have free time and eat ketchup.

"He didn't have a proper left winger". Correction: he didn't PICK a proper left winger. He picked the team based on NAMES, and so, like Brazil, they had a ton of similar players who didn't complement each other.

capellos first international job was the england one.. not all top club managers do well at international level as seen with capello

Rooney was the worst one for trying to blame Capello, trying to cover up for another tournament where he was garbage for England, blaming Capello for being to strict etc. Yet ITV had Fabio Canavarro and Patrick Viera (2 world cup winners who had played for him) as pundits at that world cup, and they both said that Capello was a brilliant manager, and what are the England players complaining about, it's only a month, and they are meant to be there to try and win the world cup!

No ketchup and butter. 😂 Oh no.

So England didn't win the 2010 world cup because they had no ketchup and butter and a ghost goal! Yeah, of course! Nothing to do with how pathetic those average players were

We would have lost anyway. They were the far better team.

I dont see why there was an investigation they were beat by the better team. That germany team dismantled Argentina the round after and narrowly lost to a phenomenal Spain side

I still don't understand to this day why Carra didn't start instead of Upson.

Play Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard in the centre, Ashley cole left mid with upson behind him, or Ashley Cole left back with Downing in front of him, actually downing and upson are rank ha

Carragher speaks incredibly well here, although he refers to the national team he was part of, as 'England' rather than 'we' - says a lot about a player who has previously said he didn't care about England aywhere near as much as Liverpool and that the people of Liverpool don't consieder themselves English.

Back in my day the players had ketchup for breakfast dinner and tea. Now it’s all bread with olives and cappuccino. What’s the world coming too

Well done Carragher! I'm going to go a step further! The England players were not good enough! One of Gerrads best seasons under Hullier was on the right of midfield! Ultimately, the likes of Brazil, Germany, Italy and France had better all round players that were adaptable and knew how to manage games! They were technically better on a skill level which has been a massive handicap with the past English/British players! When you look at the Golden generation, the so called prem greatest midfielders were nearly all the same! If you breakdown Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard, Paul Ince, Carrick etc they all are near enough the same. One might be stronger or quicker, taller etc but they all are very similar in what they could do with the ball. Problem is none of them were comfortable in tight situations and the other top national teams knew it. England would try to play a unrealistic paced football for 90 minutes and if that failed to effect the opponent most times it was game over! Teams like Brazil, Italy and France could control the tempo and dictate England to their benefit. England had the likes of Joe Cole, Matt Litissier, etc that never really got a look in. These players that could handle pressure in tight pockets! Only Gascoigne got the chance and he literally carried all the nations expectations! So why people think that England should of won a trophy I don't know! Greece won like how Leicester done because they probably had no egos and stuck to the game plan. Also, they had no expectations! England expect so much from their players, but fail to realise that in most of the premier league teams it's the Foreign players that are the best! They actually elevate the British/ English players and more to our detriment make the players look better than what they are. Hence when it's time to put on the national shirt, their deficiencies come to light! Hopefully with the likes of Sancho who has that ability to handle the ball in tight pockets with skill may give us a better chance! We need most the team to be like this to stand a chance! I remember watching Liverpool against Real Madrid in the CL final and watching Marcelo do things on the ball that some British/England players in the prem can't do! He is a Left-back/ wing-back.

2010 we were a shambles in that world Cup. Drew with USA and Algeria scrapped past Slovenia and then got a hiding by Germany. Nothing to do with Capello our players didnt turn up

Can’t argue to much with Carra here. Oh, if only Giggs was English, eh:)

Exactly the mentality u needed not this losers mentality' oh now we were robbed oh victim attitude.' NO u need a winner's attitude no wonder we won less. If that goal not being given really did affect the players in the second half then no wonder we lost we were soft and no wonder capello flopped and got sacked.

Following the first question I was waiting for Carra throwing Fabio under the bus but it didn't happen P.s. fortunately it didn't happen coz slam others at their backs is such a ridiculous attitude 😑

I do still think 442 never helped us. We only started doing well in tournaments when Southgate started playing 3-5-2 or 4-3-3.

Had there been VAR in the 2010 WC then England would have lost 4-2 instead of 4-1

Carragher is being kind to Capello. He was a bad mismatch with the England job.

Well said Jamie cutting through the bullshit good honest interview

At the end of the day capello played a terrible system for the players we had. Should of played 352. We were blessed in the centre back department and the centre midfield department, so why not play with 3 centre backs and 3 central midfielders.

i get england underachieved but its quite annoying the flack that 2006 team got. i mean we didn't even make world cups during the 70s haha

Carragher was the consummate professional which is the reason why he got where he did despite not having the best technical ability compared to the likes of Redknap.

I think this is the issue with British press, or maybe even British culture in general, being too negative on it's own people and players... I remember that game. Germany's first goal could've easily been disallowed for a foul, then they scored another one very quickly, and England fought back hard and showed a lot of heart, certainly if half time ended with 2-2 with England having the momentum things could have been much different. I'm not sure why this fact was hardly ever brought up and people just criticize Capello and that England team for their failures

Dead smart our Carra. Too smart to get into management, but he’d have been great.

Attacking players from other countries can play on the left or right and it's no problem but if someone like Gerrard or Scholes does it for England it's a big drama.

I’m gonna get Capello for this

Either you found a way to play Lampard and Gerrard to play in the same team or you only played one of them in a match. Italy found a way in 2006 to play Totti and Pirlo in a world cup and won it.

Why on earth did Carra get allowed back on Sky Sports?!

Fact is though we were all over them when Lampard scored & it wasn’t given. We would have won that game had it been given I’m sure of it.

The media ruined that world cup for England by forcing Capello to sack Terry as captain over the Bridge affair

People always look at the result and blame that generation of English players for not winning any trophies, but I always had some sympathy for them, they were quite unlucky... 1998 game against Argentina (Campbell goal ruled out, Becks got sent off, lost only on pens), 2000 lost to a last min pen, 2002 lost to Brazil in quarters after going 1-0 up (no shame on this really), 2004 lost to Portugal on pen (Campbell again had a goal ruled out), 2006 lost again to Portugal on pen (played most of the game with 10 men after Rooney's sent off), 2010 got absolutely robbed when Lampard's goal was wrongly ruled out, at the time it would have been 2-2 with the momentum going towards England... After this it was clear that the players had lost control of their emotions and ended up losing 0-4

They blame Capello, Sven and Mclaren. The common denominator across all the tournaments were the players. End of.

I’ll never forget how bad terry was against Germany jeezy creezy...he couldn’t deal with a ball bouncing in front of him lol I’m people say that gen had such good players and defenders...anyway England can’t play in the heat they’ll never win against big teams in the summer in hot countries and weather

Love carra

never forget

I never understood why the ghost goal got so much attention. England got absolutely outplayed.

So if they had ketchup and butter they would have won the world cup

Wrong Jamie 😂😂

Why is there an investigation????

Butter and Ketchup are the problems for England team

More players need to go on loan or abroad to get game time and to play in different systems/environments. ⬇

4:57 racking up a line?

Capello qualified for tournaments, McClaren did not.

Scholes weren’t all that tbh. If he was he would’ve been first guy on sheet over lamps and Gerrard

Typical media Sven wasn’t strict enough. Fabio was too strict.

Capello didn’t speak a word of English and we thought he would win us a World Cup lol the golden generation got absolutely wasted by the FA

that was the same english team that couldn't make it to the euros two years prior. getting out of their group was more than they deserved.

Top lad Carra...

Cause its management

had the game gone to 2-2. Germany destroyed England that day and it wouldn't have mattered if England had gone 3-0 up, the Germans were far superior to them and fully deserved to knoc them out. Absolutely laughable some people

It's all about the ketchup, what more can I say

Carraghe would been good in capelo club team in his prime