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• Rooney is one of the three best players in the world, Italian says
• I would not swap my job with Marcello Lippi, he adds

Fabio Capello has set the bold target of steering England to the semi-finals of the World Cup at the very least, thereby emulating the national team’s best performance at the tournament since the trophy was won in 1966.

The Italian has had to contend over the past month with injuries to key personnel and serious allegations over his players’ personal lives – one of them cost John Terry the captaincy – together with confirmation that the England team hotel had been bugged before last week’s friendly against Egypt. Yet those distractions have not doused his enthusiasm for a role he accepted a little over two years ago, with his basic target now to take the team beyond the quarter-finals, where Sven-Goran Eriksson twice came unstuck, in South Africa this summer.

“My job when I was manager of Milan, Juventus, Roma or Madrid was always to try and win and, for me, it’s the same now as England manager,” said Capello. “I am focused to find the best way and we are one of the best teams in the World Cup. We hope to arrive at the semi-finals, minimum, and then, after a lot of years, win the World Cup.

“We have a good team, good players and, at this moment, we think we can beat all of the teams because we can play at the same level of the best teams in the world. It is a surprise to see the attention on things off the pitch because, usually, my job has been to decide things on the pitch, so that is new. But being England manager is always a challenge. But the challenge for me is always important because, at my age, without a challenge, I’d just stay at home. I could go on holiday. I like the challenge. This will be one of the most important of my life.

“To manage England was one of my dreams and I’m really happy to have taken on the job. I would not swap my position with [the Italy coach] Marcello Lippi. I prefer to be England manager. I hope to play against Italy in the final but my shirt at that moment will be an England shirt.”

England have reached the semi-finals only once, in 1990, in the past 44 years, and Capello’s ambition is a concession that the Football Association and the supporters will be seeking evidence of real progress under a manager who signed a four-year contract worth around £26m.

A place in the last four at the summer’s finals would satisfy that with Capello admitting that Wayne Rooney – arguably the side’s one world-class player on present form – is key to achieving that much.

“Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney are the three best players in the world at the moment,” said Capello, speaking at the Laureus Sports Awards in Abu Dhabi. “Their styles are completely different. One is fast, one has lots of imagination. Rooney is more strong. He runs a lot and helps everyone, and this year he has scored many goals. I think he is one of the best, but those three are really young and they are the best players for the future. I hope he will be in the same form during the World Cup and that he will be fit and not injured because he is one of the most important players.

“Of those who are injured at the moment, I am happy because they are injured now rather than when the World Cup starts. Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole are out but the players who played against Egypt played very well and we have no big problem with defenders.”

Ferdinand has returned to the Manchester United line-up since the win against Egypt, and Brown is expected to be absent for up to six weeks with a metatarsal injury. Cole continues to make good progress in rehabilitation in the south of France after breaking an ankle during Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at Everton, with the club confident he will return to action before the end of the campaign.

That will grant the first-choice left-back time to prove his fitness ahead of the naming of Capello’s 30-man provisional squad for the finals, on 16 May.

England have two fixtures, against Mexico at Wembley and Japan in Graz, Austria, later that month before flying to South Africa on 2 June.

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• Capello conversations secretly recorded before Egypt game
• Football Association warns media not to make them public

The Football Association has moved to stop the contents of bugged conversations between players and coaching staff becoming public after a recording was offered to media outlets.

Conversations between the England coach, Fabio Capello, and the squad are understood to have been secretly recorded ahead of last week’s friendly against Egypt. The FA has launched an investigation into how they were made and warned newspapers and broadcasters not to make them public.

The incident is the latest blow to hit Capello’s World Cup build up, in the wake of the media frenzy that surrounded John Terry’s alleged affair with the ex-girlfriend of his international team-mate Wayne Bridge.

The recording, believed to be several hours long, is alleged to contain conversations between coaching staff and players at the Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire ahead of the 3-1 victory over Egypt at Wembley last Wednesday.

Although they have not officially commented, the FA’s lawyers have contacted media organisations warning that publication of the contents of the recording would be illegal and a breach of the Data Protection Act and Press Complaints Commission rules.

Section 10 of the PCC code states: “The press must not seek to obtain or publish material acquired by using hidden cameras or clandestine listening devices; or by intercepting private or mobile telephone calls, messages or emails; or by the unauthorised removal of documents or photographs; or by accessing digitally held private information without consent.”

It is understood that the FA’s lawyers have also been in touch with the Daily Star, which hinted at the content of the conversations but did not reproduce them, in order to try to ascertain who was offering the recordings for sale and how they were made.

It has been suggested that the content of the tapes could give away Capello’s tactical secrets but it is likely that whoever is responsible was hoping for more blockbuster revelations about the England players’ private lives or evidence of the effect of the Terry story on the mood within the camp.

It is understood that the recordings were offered to several Sunday newspapers, which turned them down. Capello is believed to be concerned about the breach but the FA is confident that tight security around the England team at their remote Rustenburg training camp at this summer’s World Cup will prevent a repeat.

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• Defender suffered suspected metatarsal fracture at Wolves
• Injury adds to Sir Alex Ferguson’s selection problems

Wes Brown is expected to be available for England’s World Cup campaign this summer despite increasing Fabio Capello’s defensive problems with a suspected metatarsal fracture sustained against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Manchester United are due to confirm the scan results on Brown’s injury today, although it is believed the 30-year-old, who left Molineux wearing a protective boot on his foot following a challenge with Matt Jarvis on Saturday, will be sidelined for six weeks with the problem. Brown’s absence is another setback for Sir Alex Ferguson, who has lost Michael Owen, Anderson, Ryan Giggs and John O’Shea to long-term injuries in recent weeks, but the timeframe would at least allow the defender to return to action before Capello finalises his World Cup squad.

Brown started at right-back for England against Egypt last week in the absence of Liverpool’s Glen Johnson, who has only just recovered from the knee ligament injury he suffered at Aston Villa on 29 December. With his left-back options thrown into turmoil by Ashley Cole’s broken ankle plus Wayne Bridge’s retirement from international football, and Rio Ferdinand restricted by injury this term, Capello can ill-afford further disruption to England’s defence before South Africa. Should Brown recover in six weeks, for the Manchester derby at Eastlands on 17 April, he would have just four league games to prove his fitness before the World Cup.

United’s selection problems for the Champions League return with Milan tomorrow also include Wayne Rooney, who missed the 1-0 win at Wolves with a knee problem aggravated against Egypt at Wembley. The leading scorer is still rated as doubtful for the Italians’ visit to Old Trafford.

The Football Association chairman, Lord Triesman, meanwhile, believes the Red Knights’ proposed takeover of United reflects a growing concern among supporters at how their clubs are run and believes a fan-run body could succeed in England. “There are some good fan-run clubs and there have been in England, too – there have been some clubs in difficulties where the fans have been the decisive factor such as York City and Bournemouth,” said Triesman.

The FA chairman refused to condemn the Glazers’ controversial ownership of United but admits supporters are right to respond to concerns over mounting debt. “Being a fan is a mixture of all sorts of things. It’s not a customer going into a shop. You want success on the pitch, there are deep cultural things involved, and most of the time you support the club your dad supported,” said Triesman. “There’s inevitably a sense of community, even if a club is a great international brand as well. It’s a huge mixture of things that fuel the emotion of football. My expectation always is that fans will be interested in the lot.”

He added: “I am really not saying Manchester United cannot deal with its overall financial arrangements but of course fans do take a view about whether their club is all right. If they have been very successful they want them to continue to be very successful so they are interested in where the funds are. As it happens I think United are a huge business capable of generating very, very big resources. It would be disappointing in any club if fans were not interested in the whole thing.”

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• John Terry: ‘I am pleased with my form this year’
• Chelsea captain maintains scandals have not affected him

John Terry has defended his performances in the wake of the scandal that has engulfed him over the past month.

Many have been critical of the form of the Chelsea captain, who was stripped of the England captaincy following tabloid revelations surrounding him and the former partner of Wayne Bridge.

The pressure on Terry increased after Chelsea lost 2-1 to Everton, but Terry insists that, aside from that game, his form is holding up. He told The People: “There are not many players who come out publicly and hold their hands up like I did after the Everton game.

“I also had an air-kick at Wolves but, apart from that, I am pleased with my form this year.

“In the first half of the season I was in really good form but after a couple of bad results, and what has gone on in recent weeks, the spotlight has been on me. But I feel as though I am playing well.”

Terry was content with his performance in England’s 3-1 win against Egypt in the friendly at Wembley last Wednesday, his first performance for the national team since losing the England captaincy, and felt he continued to play a leadership role.

“I played well against Egypt,” he said. “It was important for me to come through that with a good performance. I think I did carry on as a leader against Egypt. I think anyone who was watching the game could see that.”

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• Pitch under fire after Carling Cup final and international
• FA says regular replacement was expected

The Football Association will relay the pitch at Wembley for the 10th time in less than three years at a cost of £90,000 after criticism of its condition during Sunday’s Carling Cup final involving Manchester United and Aston Villa and Wednesday’s international between England and Egypt.

An FA spokesman told the Times: “The groundstaff did very well to stage the Carling Cup, despite around 80mm of rain in the week with a further 40mm the night before the match, and they used a canopy to shield the pitch from the rain on Saturday night and on Sunday. They worked round the clock and could not have done more.

“Conditions were better ahead of the England match but the pitch was still not good enough for our liking. Ultimately it has not fared well through what has been an extremely harsh winter and it needs to be replaced. The stadium caters for football and non-football events, so replacing the pitch more than once a year is the reality of a multipurpose venue.”

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• Ferguson expected Rooney to withdraw from England friendly
• Striker doubtful for Wolves game due to swollen knee

Manchester United’s increased reliance on Wayne Rooney after Michael Owen was ruled out for the season has led to Sir Alex Ferguson clashing with the Premier League’s leading scorer. Ferguson, reeling from the news that Owen needs an operation, was incensed that Rooney defied him by not pulling out of England’s midweek defeat of Egypt and has made his feelings plain to the player, accusing him of being irresponsible and jeopardising United’s chances of silverware.

Ferguson had been led to believe Rooney would withdraw because of a knee injury that has troubled him for several weeks. Instead, the forward played 86 minutes of the 3-1 win, whereas Chelsea’s Frank Lampard was replaced at half-time. Rooney’s knee has swollen, making him doubtful for United’s game at Wolverhampton Wanderers tomorrow, and it is a measure of Ferguson’s irritation that he abandoned his usual policy of never criticising players in public.

“I was disappointed with Wayne,” Ferguson said. “He didn’t come off, I couldn’t believe it, and now he’s a doubt. We’re going to have to assess him because he played virtually the full game for England, which I am disappointed about. Playing at Wembley on that kind of pitch for almost an hour [in the Carling Cup final] on Sunday, and then almost the full 90 minutes on Wednesday, it’s far too much. Wayne is exhausted.”

A long-term critic of international friendlies, Ferguson went on to describe the pitch as “a ploughed field” and blamed the surface for Owen suffering the injury that has brought his season to a juddering halt. When Rooney reported back for training Ferguson reminded him that United should be his top priority and demanded to know why the player had not signalled to the England manager, Fabio Capello, that he wanted to be substituted.

“There were changes made and I thought Rooney would be one of them,” Ferguson said. “It’s disappointing. I don’t blame Fabio at all, but don’t forget he [Rooney] was not supposed to be playing at all. That’s what Wayne told us on Sunday because he was feeling his knee. Then all of a sudden you press get hold of him, and people put an arm round his shoulder with England, and he wants to play. He went into the game with an injury and I don’t think he should have played but his own enthusiasm has caused it. He can’t say no, that’s his problem.”

With 28 goals already, it is obvious why Ferguson is desperate to protect Rooney, particularly as Owen’s absence limits the club’s attacking options, with Federico Macheda having regressed since last season and Daniel Welbeck on loan at Preston North End. Dimitar Berbatov’s form has been erratic and Ferguson confirmed the Bulgarian may need an operation at the end of the season due to a knee problem. Mame Biram Diouf is new to English football after signing from Molde in January.

Owen damaged his hamstring in the Carling Cup final and what was thought to be a slight pull is actually a full tear, meaning the 30-year-old will undergo surgery on Monday. Ferguson described it as a “terrible blow”, one that ends any hope the former England player had of being recalled by Capello for the World Cup.

“Unfortunately the specialist says I will miss the end of the season,” Owen said. “I have loved every minute of my first campaign with Manchester United and have already enjoyed some memorable moments. I am determined to come back at the start of next season in peak condition.”

Owen’s misfortune increases the scrutiny on the Wembley pitch and Ferguson was unsparing in his criticisms. “I thought a horse show had been on it. Do you remember when Arsenal played Swindon back in the 1960s in the League Cup final? It wasn’t as bad as that [on Sunday] but it reminded me of a ploughed field. I couldn’t believe that the players had come through it. It was end to end and it does take it out of you.”

That last line was delivered, more forcibly, when he spoke to Rooney. “It’s hard to quell people with his kind of enthusiasm because it’s a restless energy,” Ferguson continued. “That’s his problem. He can’t sit down, he can’t sit still, he’s always on the move. Even in hotels I watch him and he’s moving from one table to another.When we’re away in Europe, he’s walking about, he’s always on the go all the time. He’s got a restless energy which you don’t want to take away from him, but age does some good things for you. Eventually you say to yourself, ‘I can’t be bothered with all this running about all the time’, and you take a rest.”

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The England manager is not the worrying kind when it comes to tough decisions of his final World Cup selection

Fabio Capello has never been the type to agonise. Suffering is delegated to his rivals. The 3-1 victory over Egypt showed that the manager has made nearly all his decisions. He even went to extremes by concluding, for instance, that Joe Hart should not even come on to gain a little more experience. Robert Green was in goal throughout and the England manager feels it is essential for him to appear as often as possible in internationals.

Last year the manager announced that he knew who his goalkeeper would be and was obviously referring to David James. On Wednesday he was asked if there had been a change of heart. “Maybe,” he said with a smile. His general disdain for unnecessary experimentation was underlined by a refusal to make full use of his allocation of six substitutions. He confined himself to five changes. It looks as if only routine maintenance of the squad is envisaged between now and the World Cup finals. This probably underlines his practicality. There are no searing newcomers to whom he could be drawn irresistibly.

Capello was wilfully content after beating Egypt. There was a determination to believe that John Terry had done well, if only to imply that the defender has got over the loss of the captaincy. This was an extension of the previous obstinacy when he had purported to see nothing amiss when Chelsea lost 4-2 to Manchester City. No such chastening lapses occurred at Wembley, but it would be an exaggeration to state that Terry had been his old self.

He always has been a little slow and it is a tribute to his understanding of the centre-half role that he seldom allows opponents a clear run. Egypt, however, did get chances to sprint at him. A comic incident also suggested that his concentration is still in convalescence. The first involvement by Terry was a misplaced pass to Wes Brown that went for a throw-in.

Whatever Capello really made of the Chelsea player’s showing, he has evidently come to the conclusion that everything will fall into place. The Italian is seldom tormented by doubt. There will be 30 players in an initial party that will be trimmed to 23 for the World Cup. He had two dozen on hand at Wembley and six clear candidates were absent.

Phil Jagielka, following knee surgery, has now had a couple of appearances from the bench for Everton. Capello should also be able to consider the injured Ashley Cole, Glen Johnson, Rio Ferdinand and Aaron Lennon for the finals. Aston Villa’s Gabriel Agbonlahor has the challenge of the England manager’s interest.

Once Capello does see value in a player he can be tenacious in his support. Theo Walcott has had a thin time, but the value of his speed is not overlooked, particularly when Lennon’s pelvic injury is proving slow to clear. The England manager pardoned Walcott’s mistakes. “When you don’t play a lot of games and then have the chance to start,” said Capello, “you want to do impossible things. But he is important because he is one of the fastest players on the right wing. I remember the performance of Theo before he was injured. He has time to recover [his form].”

Capello was benign towards even the malfunctioning Jermain Defoe, who squandered his first England start in 16 months. “I know they can play together,” the manager said of the striker’s pairing with Wayne Rooney, “but some things did not go the way I wanted. With Peter Crouch, we played differently and the movement of the players was more harmonic.” Capello has benefited in the past from the combination of Wayne Rooney and Emile Heskey and he is under no pressure to break up the pairing. Crouch’s impact, in which two goals took his international tally to 20, came as a substitute against Egypt.

Without naming Portsmouth, the Italian emphasised the progress that followed the transfer to Tottenham last summer. “Crouch has improved a lot,” said Capello. “English teams like Spurs do not always play long balls. A long time ago, when we started, it was always long balls for the head of Crouch. Now he always tries to play the ball. It was a maximum of one or two touches [against Egypt]. It is not easy to win the ball back from Crouch.”

The attacker took the equaliser against Egypt slickly, even if he was offside at the other goal. Between those strikes Shaun Wright-Phillips scored with an effort that ought to have been saved. England, in short, were spasmodic and the subdued contributions from Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard were unsettling. Capello badly needs to see the revitalisation of those midfielders, although it is not obvious how that is to be achieved.

The manager demanded a higher tempo for the second half, but that very British approach from the Italian may not succeed at the World Cup. There is much still to trouble Capello. Everton’s Leighton Baines was allowed the full 90 minutes and, on his debut, thereby became the default left-back. Nonetheless, England will be severely diminished if some sort of setback keeps Cole from the World Cup. In general, there is a fragility and patchiness to the resources that not even Capello can cure.

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• Team spirit not been damaged, says deposed captain
• ‘Let’s concentrate on England and the World Cup’

John Terry said England’s dressing room has not been split by the allegations over his private life that prompted Fabio Capello to strip him of the national team’s captaincy.

The Chelsea centre-half, whose reported affair with Wayne Bridge’s former partner compelled the Manchester City full-back to retire prematurely from international football, was heckled by some sections of the Wembley crowd early in the 3-1 win over Egypt on Wednesday. Yet the barracking subsided as his performance grew more assured and, while the England squad included three City players, he said the exposés about his private life over the past month had not proved divisive within the set-up. “We’ve shown that our team spirit has not been damaged,” said Terry. “We’ve shown that the players, the fans and the country are united all behind the team. The lads have said it publicly but I’ve had a lot of support from them privately as well, which has been really nice.

“We showed in our second-half performance that we’ve still got that fight and drive for each other which will never go away. The spirit amongst the lads is fantastic and we showed that by coming from a goal down against a really good side. I hope that draws a line under everything.

“I’m thankful to the crowd and showed my appreciation after the game. It means a lot the way they responded. But it’s not just about me and we need to forget about all that now. Let’s concentrate on England and the World Cup.

“We’ve seen from the Egypt game that we’ve got a really good chance. If we can keep playing like that and keep progressing then we’ve got a good chance: 18 months ago we said we needed to keep going and keep improving and we’ve done that.”

That progress had been threatened in recent weeks by the allegations that cost Terry the armband, as well as injuries to key personnel, though the squad members said attention has not been critically deflected. “We put that negativity behind us,” said Frank Lampard.

“We showed a good togetherness and spirit on the pitch. It’s only been two or three days and people are concentrating on their football. We’ve tried to block out any negative feeling.

“The fans were supportive. The players understand the booing, whatever their thoughts on different issues. But whether it’s off the pitch or on the pitch issues, it doesn’t help. We’re in the zone now where we have to concentrate on getting behind the team. We have to try to take out the negativity because that can affect people. John didn’t make a comment [about the booing] but I thought he played very well. Every player should act like they have the armband. John does that and he will continue to do that more often than not.”

The centre-half’s display was all the more impressive given recent high-profile mistakes endured in Chelsea games – at Everton, Internazionale and at home to Manchester City most notably – which had suggested his off-field concerns were undermining his form on the pitch. “Chelsea have had a couple of bad results, which sometimes means a couple of bad performances from me surprisingly, but I was pleased with my performance against Egypt,” he added. “It was important I came out and played the way I did.”

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England might be the best of Europe’s former World Cup winners, but Spain and Brazil look in a league of their own

Jeers for Germany in defeat at home to Argentina, derision aimed by the Parisian crowd at France in losing to Spain, a desultory goalless draw for Italy with Cameroon in Monaco – at least only one England player was booed at Wembley on Wednesday night, and even that piece of personalised dissent had subsided by the time Fabio Capello’s side took the lead against Egypt with a quarter of an hour to go.

A mixed night, then, for Europe’s reigning and former World Cup winners, with nine titles between them. Vicente del Bosque’s Spain, never better than semi-finalists, now look even more like the continent’s most promising contenders – perhaps followed by Holland, twice finalists but never winners, who beat the United States in Amsterdam.

Capello’s England remain a puzzle, with many questions, some of them fundamental, unanswered only three months ahead of their opening group match. As the Italian watched Brazil dispose of the Republic of Ireland with a confident second-half performance at the Emirates Stadium on Tusday night, he must have envied the relative calmness and logic with which Dunga has been able to marshal and prepare his forces.

Not that the Brazilian coach is without his noisy critics. There were placards around the Emirates demanding to know why he refuses to select Ronaldinho and Pato, but afterwards he was firm in his implied dismissal of the two Milan forwards. “Most players in Brazil are talented,” he said. “But we don’t live on talent. We live on results.” He left no doubt that he had made his dispositions, and that only an act of God would force him to reconsider his judgement.

Dunga and Capello have a lot in common. Both were pragmatic midfield players to whom aesthetics mattered not at all. The Brazilian has a simple philosophy, which he summarised this week. “First victory,” he said, “then a good way of playing.” You can imagine Capello thinking the same thing, although he would probably be a bit subtler in the way he expressed it. Dunga’s intransigence is necessary to keep at bay the hordes of highly opinionated compatriots who voice an opinion on his every move – “the 150 million selectors back home”, as his predecessor Carlos Alberto Parreira put it a few weeks before taking Brazil to USA ‘94 and their fourth championship.

That team was captained by Dunga, and he was saying the same sort of thing then as Brazil made their way to the final through a series of distinctly unbeguiling performances. Even the presence of Romário and Bebeto could not make the 1994 side into a thing of beauty, with Parreira relegating Rai, the svelte playmaker, to the substitutes’ bench after the group matches and resisting a national outcry against his decision to leave the 17-year-old Ronaldo on the sidelines throughout the tournament. Dunga has seen at first hand the benefit of draining the sentiment and romance out of such dilemmas.

In that tournament Parreira pioneered the use of two defensive midfielders, a move that provoked unrest among the 150 million back home. Dunga was paired with Mauro Silva ahead of a conventional back four, just as the superbly alert Felipe Melo and the terrific old warhorse Gilberto Silva locked the doors in front of a magnificently athletic defensive quartet against the Irish in north London. And when Kaká and Robinho are deployed in the advanced midfield positions, as Parreira had Zinho and Mazinho, there is always going to be something worth watching. Stung by a couple of impolite Irish tackles, Kaka was sensational in Wednesday’s second half, forgetting his indifferent form in Madrid and gradually taking over the game.

Once Grafite had replaced the ponderous Adriano in the lone striker’s role, Brazil’s combinations started to come off and culminated in the flickering rapid-fire move, involving three men, five exchanges and two backheels, from which Robinho – who seemed to have been informed during the interval that this was a home game – doubled their lead.

Although pre-tournament friendlies are perennially unreliable as indicators of eventual form in the real thing, you would certainly rather be in Dunga’s shoes than Capello’s. But then Capello would rather be in his own shoes than in those of Raymond Domenech, whose continuing presence as France’s head coach remains an utter mystery. At least Capello has some decent qualifying performances to look back on, along with the players’ respect and the goodwill of the public. How Domenech must be wishing that he could reach into the past and coax the irreplaceable Zinedine Zidane back into action once again.

The poor form of Joachim Löw’s Germany’s can be virtually discounted, since they are always capable of rising to the demands of a World Cup’s final stages. But Argentina’s win, with a goal from Gonzalo Higuaín, suggests that Diego Maradona’s chaotic regime may spring a surprise, even with Juan Román Riquelme languishing at home, the 35-year-old Juan Sebastián Verón pulling the strings, and Carlos Tevez and Sergio Agüero left on the bench.

Like his compatriot Marcello Lippi, who tried out a back three for the first time against Cameroon, Capello is still experimenting with formations and combinations, hoping to get lucky. It must be comforting to be a Brazilian fan and to know that Dunga makes his decisions with such clarity of vision (and, of course, abundance of resources), while Maradona’s appeal to his players’ emotions may turn out to be Argentina’s most unanswerable weapon. But sometimes, as we know, the most effective teams discover their shape and character during the tournament itself. And the World Cup is seldom won by the most gifted team, which England patently are not.

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Peter Crouch gave England manager Fabio Capello a World Cup dilemma when he came off the bench to score two goals in England’s 3-1 victory against Egypt at Wembley

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