The one thing Capello did well was win qualification games. Not a tough ask, tbh.
We've failed to qualify plenty of times before. The manager before him did.
Yeah, and it was a farce. Just because teams have failed to qualify in the past doesn't mean it's not an easy achievement with the players England have.
Ok so if qualification was piss easy and some of the other managers failed there, then surely it still means that Capello was relativey better than them. All England managers have easy game and difficult games. It's not like Capello was managing against the US Coast Guards whilst KK was managing against Brazil all the time. Sure the whole team and Capello's philosophy didn't work in S.Africa (which could be attributed to several factors like Rooney being so shit), but I don't see the need to make it out like he was poorer than the rest.
I'm not making out he was poorer than the rest, I just think he achieved the bare minimum of what an England manager should achieve. In fact, he's done better than the last few recent managers, but losing him now is not a bad thing at all.