National broadcaster confuses unhappy pensioner with rowdy protest Following the announcement that Fabio Capello would be taking the reins at England HQ, I went and checked out the ‘fierce protests’ at Soho Square. When I arrived, the rowdy anti-Capello xenophobic yobs I had been promised turned out to be just one man. A retired policeman called Ray, whose main complaint was the price of his train fare.

His picture has crept up again today on the BBC website, in an article in which ancient Swiss bureaucrat Sepp Blatter voices concern for a foreign England manager. The caption ‘An England supporter protests against Capello’s appointment’ implies the public feeling against the Italian was strong, and hundreds had turned out at FA HQ to voice their narrow-minded frustration. But that wasn’t the case. The entire protest was a single seventy-year-old man. To whom nobody was listening. Well done BBC, for finding discontent in such microscopic quantities.