England will be in safe hands — Capello

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.

Capello will not tell his players which of them have been selected for the game 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 last weekend, or lose it to David James, who was heavily backed to make a return yesterday.

But Capello insists when he does make the call, it will not be done on the basis of a single incident.

It leaves Capello open to the claim he is causing unnecessary doubt by delaying his announcement.

The Italian robustly defended his decision though, insisting his early days in management taught him not to make major calls too quickly.

There were contradictory clues in last night’s final training session as Green did more work in the team section, but James and Joe Hart kept goal behind John Terry and Jamie Carragher, who seem certain to start in central defence.

More certainty can be attached to the likelihood of Emile Heskey partnering Wayne Rooney in attack for a game England should win, but Capello says will take nothing for granted.