LONDON — After Sven Lite, England now has the real thing. Steve McClaren, the assistant and successor to Sven-Goran Eriksson, always looked out of his depth as England's head coach. But there can be no such accusations leveled at Fabio Capello.

Christopher Davies

While the Italian has no experience of international management, his CV is impeccable. He has the distinction of winning the domestic title with every team he has managed — AC Milan, Real Madrid, AS Roma and Juventus, even though the latter was stripped of its Serie A crown in the wake of the match-fixing scandal last year.