Fabio finally comes to his senses by playing Wilshere

Hallelujah! Fabio Capello will give Jack Wilshere a game, maybe even a full game, at Wembley in a friendly with France next month.

Scant consolation surely for Capello's inexplicable even perverse decision to keep Wilshere on the bench throughout England's dismal display against Montenegro.

This after denying Wilshere a place in Stuart Pearce's under-21 team.

Yet without Wilshere, who had shone so recently in midfield for an Arsenal team well beaten at Chelsea, where were the brains of the England outfit?

And to rub salt into the wound, Capello brought on as sub the 33-year-old Bolton striker Kevin Davies.

We saw, by no means for the first time, that the lofty Peter Crouch will never be a striker of international class. But in what way was Davies, a novice at this level, going to be a better option?

And to give Crouch his due, he had a meagre service of high crosses.

That's not the fault of the talented left foot Adam Johnson who did have a lively and productive game on the right. Though when the ineffectual Ashley Young came off the left wing, what sense was there in bringing the right-sided Shaun Wright-Phillips.

Bankrupt case

The brutal fact is that Capello looks a bankrupt case. He even praised Wayne Rooney for a clumsy foul? Rooney has now become a baffling enigma.

Insisting that he is fully fit to play while his Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson denies it.

Against Montenegro's packed and largely composed defence, he had his sporadic moments, forcing a couple of resourceful saves from Montenegro's defiant keeper, but this isn't the real Rooney.

Then there is the matter of what to do with Steven Gerrard.

The author is a football expert based in England.