Over the next fortnight, Fabio Capello will head to Poland to select England's European Championship base still insisting he got it right in South Africa.
Although the training facilities in Rustenburg were first class, with the team hotel part of the same site, England's players were completely cut off.
Football Association chairman David Bernstein has already said he wants England to engage more with the public next summer, when it is anticipated they will stay in a city centre location, expected to be in Krakow.
But in comparing the criticisms he received to those being heaped on England's failed rugby World Cup squad, Capello believes the only way to silence the doubters is to win.
