 | Fabio Capello owes his position as the world's best paid coach to Croatia, but England's Italian manager would be unwise to anticipate any further favours from Slaven Bilic and his squad here on Wednesday. Having masterminded home and away victories over England in the qualifying campaign for Euro 2008, Bilic played a central role in ensuring Wayne Rooney and co. were missing from the finals, thus creating the vacancy that Capello filled at the start of this year. |
The reputation of his predecessor, Steve McClaren, never recovered from the 2-0 defeat England suffered here two years ago. That match will always be associated with the comical 'air kick' by goalkeeper Paul Robinson which ensured that Gary Neville's passback trundled into the net to gift Croatia their opening goal.
Lee McCulloch announced that he will retire from international football on Monday.
Fletcher said that the the squad are behind Burley , he called the players to express their feelings ahead of Wednesday's clash in Iceland.
"I'm disheartened by stories about players not wanting to work for the manager." As Fletcher said to Daily Record.
"If somebody's got a problem they should be up front about it and not hide behind anybody's back".
"These stories have come from somewhere but they don't represent my view".
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