Fabio Capello insists he will forget all about Robert Green's woeful World Cup blunder when he selects his goalkeeper for tonight's showdown with Algeria.
Once again Capello does not intend to tell his players which of them have been selected until a couple of hours before kick-off. That means Green will not find out whether he is going to keep his place despite the calamitous error that cost England victory against the United States, or lose it to David James.
But Capello insists he will not make the call on the basis of a single incident. "I have to choose the value of different players, not just think about their mistakes."
Years | Winners | Runner-up | Third place |
2006 | Italy | France | Germany |
2002 | Brazil | Germany | Turkey |
1998 | France | Brazil | Croatia |
1994 | Brazil | Italy | Sweden |
1990 | Germany | Argentina | Italy |
1986 | Argentina | Germany | France |
1982 | Italy | Germany | Poland |
1978 | Argentina | Holland | Brazil |
1974 | Germany | Holland | Poland |
1970 | Brazil | Italy | Germany |
1966 | England | Germany | Portugal |
1962 | Brazil | Czech | Chile |
1958 | Brazil | Sweden | France |
1954 | Germany | Hungary | Austria |
1950 | Uruguay | Brazil | Sweden |
1938 | Italy | Hungary | Brazil |
1934 | Italy | Czech | Germany |
1930 | Uruguay | Argentina | America |