James Lawton: Capello must be Machiavellian enough to insist on survival of fittest for England

The advice to Fabio Capello could hardly have been more seductive. It said the smart move was to hand David Beckham his 100th international cap next week, not as the condoning of imposing some incorrigibly woolly sentiment on the proper criteria for picking an international football team but the conferring of a right of achievement. A no-brainer, no?

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