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Lions suffer a roasting

AFP, London
Lions suffer a roasting
AFP, London
England's footballers and manager Fabio Capello received a media savaging on Wednesday after they stumbled to a disappointing goalless draw with tiny Montenegro.
After being booed off the
pitch at Wembley following Tuesday night's 0-0 stalemate, England's players awoke to stinging headlines about a result which has left the
team's Euro 2012 qualifying campaign finely balanced. The Sun lambasted the performance as a new low following England's dismal World Cup campaign in South Africa.
"Devoid of ideas and inspiration, England were back to the clueless ramshackle outfit which brought tears of anger and frustration to the thousands who had followed them to the World Cup," columnist Steven Howard lamented.
The Daily Mirror accused England of "stinking out" Wembley with a "boring, listless" performance.
"Depressing, miserable and a throwback to all those desperate days and nights in South Africa," the paper commented.
"The jeers of the England supporters told their own story and nothing Capello says will mask the inadequacies of this performance. ”
The Daily Mail branded the performance a
"dark day for Capello", saying the team had served up "one of those lifeless displays that England have produced too often in recent years".
"There was a chorus of boos at the sound of the final whistle and understandably so,” the paper noted.
The Guardian meanwhile described the performance as a "woeful return to the dark ages", and questioned whether Capello's 6-million-pound a year regime had brought about any meaningful improvement in England's national team.
"After two and a half years of exposure to the Italian's tactical theories are England more shrewd, flexible and incisive in the patterns with which they attempt to dismantle their opponents?" the paper asked.
"Brought in to impose discipline, Capello has now supervised too many displays of slackness as dispiriting as any experienced under even his most hapless predecessors," it added.
Many commentators expressed concern over the performance of Wayne Rooney, still struggling to rediscover his best form as he returns from injury and newspaper revelations about his private life.
"Rooney is not right," The Times commented. "To say so is not to kick a man when he is down but simply to state the obvious."
According to The Daily Mail, Rooney "was still suffering from the same malaise that has seen his form take a significant dip since those front page revelations about his private life".