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Waiting in vain for Don Fabio
And people tell me writing about Italian soccer is glamorous… Last night I spent five hours at Milan’s Linate airport hoping for a chance to ask Fabio Capello whether he had held talks with the FA about the England job. I had been tipped off that Capello was flying in from Madrid and was landing at 1800 so my photographer and I raced off in the hope of securing a scoop. Only ...
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