Capello set to survive as FA look long-term

FABIO CAPELLO looks set to survive as England coach despite the team’s World Cup failure with FA chiefs instead being urged to invest in a long-term plan for success.

Dave Richards, the Premier League chairman who also heads the new ‘Club England’, will spend the next couple of weeks taking stock of the situation before making a recommendation to the FA board.

The chances of Capello being sacked look to be receding by the day however. It is understood that Trevor Brooking, the FA’s director of football development and a key figure in the process, will recommend that Capello is kept on for the rest of his contract until 2012. Brooking’s view is that replacing him with another manager will not solve the underlying problem with English football, and a number of FA board and international committee members are also of the same opinion.