Recent Internationals Provide Hope for Capello and England

The last ten days have been encouraging for England there's certainly no lack of competition for places throughout the squad, even though the general feeling about Sr. Capello is that the sooner he's replaced the better. Richard Smith takes an overview of the recent games.

So, after the debacle of the captaincy change and England's latest two matches against Wales in the Euro 2012 qualifier last weekend and the friendly against Ghana at Wembley in midweek, how far exactly has England come in the past nine months in terms of putting away their world cup nightmare and moving on?

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