Capello to meet FA over Terry captaincy

Fabio Capello will meet FA chairman David Bernstein later this week for talks over the decision to strip John Terry of the England captaincy.

Capello himself was criticised by one of his predecessors for going public with a blast at Bernstein’s decision to go over his head and take away the captaincy from Terry.

Capello, whose contract expires after Euro 2012, will meet Bernstein later this week, for the first time since the FA announced on Friday their decision to remove the armband from Terry until the outcome of his court case in July where he denies a charge of racially abusing QPR’s Anton Ferdinand.

Capello told Italian TV he “absolutely” disagreed with the action but Graham Taylor, England manager from 1990-93, said he should have kept his feelings behind closed doors.

Meanwhile, former FA executive director David Davies suggested the Italian may have been in breach of his contract to speak out in such a way.

Taylor told BBC Radio 5: “It doesn’t help the situation at all, as England go into the European Championships. I can’t see what Capello’s agenda is. All it does is disturb everything even more.

“To come out in this public fashion actually, in one respect, gives England an even bigger problem for the selection and harmony of the squad for the European Championships.”