Crapello: Learning English With Fabio Capello
FABIO Capello is now well on his way to becoming Fabio Crap-ello the man who brought down English football and scarred a nation - for ever!
And that could mean trouble for Michael McElinney, who is now Capello’s official look-alike.
Capello impersonators can earn up to £350 a time, says the Express in a piece entitled “Absolutely Fabio-lous”.
Says McElinney: “I don’t speak a world of Italian but if Mr Capello is going to learn English in a month who is to say I can’t learn it?”
Well, not we who have been boning up on our Itanglish or Englaly. Key phrase to look out for: “We cannot pasta the ball”, “Eye-Tai (should England play Thailand), “Eye-Tie” (a draw) capo” and “E IO Adio”…
December 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am
Support Capello in his quest to learn English
December 21st, 2007 at 9:40 am
What’s English for plug?
December 21st, 2007 at 11:04 am
sopra la luna
December 21st, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Mien Godt!
I can speak some German but not spell it very well.
I ought to be happy since my mothers family are of Italian extraction (Sicily).
Oh well, if he crashes and burns (I hope he doesn’t) I just wanted to mention that I would be available to take the job. I dont know anything about football management but I could use the money and it seems that the English manager gets to go to a lot of Premiership games for free.
After six months I could be sacked and paid off for half what Steve got, a bargain!
December 24th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Please note that my husband, the official Fabio Capello lookalike (much more handsome) spells his surname as follows:-
McELHINNEY and NOT MCELINNEY
Many thanks
Lisa McElhinney
February 19th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
How is he the OFFICIAL fabio capello double? Howard Brown looks much more like the england boss