If the Football Association was a military command then they would surely have described Fabio Capello's interview with the Italian broadcaster RAI yesterday as a case of one of their lead agents going rogue.

We all know Harry Redknapp has to be the next England manager but where are the other candidates? The answer is there aren't any, and that worries me. I'm talking Englishmen here. I don't want someone from overseas, or the rest of Great Britain – we can't play a Scot up front so I don't want anyone other than an English person leading our country.

Post-match interviews change as the season wears on. Early on, players tend to grab at any shred of optimism, promising to "bounce back" or "get the three points next week". By February, the season is starting to run out and the responses become harder and honest.

No Roman spring, this, on a day when Italy deserted the sunny climes of the Stadio Flaminio, a kilometre or two up the road, for the wintry Stadio Olimpico. No change of fortune either, as the chance to defeat England for the first time slipped away in a snowstorm.

There have now been 184 meetings between the two most successful clubs in English football history and it is difficult to believe that any other has been surrounded by quite the acrimony of yesterday's. In the Sixties and Seventies the players would kick or fight each other and supporters would do likewise, but here the backdrop was unique.

Just like Dirty Den or Nick Cotton walking back into the Queen Vic, every good villain needs a comeback and tomorrow Carlos Tevez is expected to return to Manchester.

The Six Nations' Championship is a wonderful tournament, steeped in wintry historyand replete with decades of friendly but resolutely patriotic imagery. Like Terry Wogan or a steaming cup of tea, it has become an institution that offers a warming sense of reassurance at what is traditionally a gloomy time of year.

Pain or glory; the FA Cup provided both yesterday for one man. Barry Robson did not quite have an afternoon like Tommy Hutchinson, who scored at both ends in the 1981 final, but he came pretty close.

Few events are as American, create as big a spectacle, or unite celebrities and sport fans as much as the Super Bowl. In the UK, interest in American football, or "gridiron", is at an unprecedented level for today's 46th annual season finale. British viewing figures have doubled over the past half-decade: 4.4 million tuned into BBC and Sky last year, according to America's National Football ...

Luol Deng has become well practised in absorbing new experiences, be it as a child refugee in Egypt and then London, as a promising young basketballer in New Jersey, as one of the most revered players in the NBA, with Barack Obama among his admirers, or last year seeing his native land gain its independence and the chance of a brighter future.