FA chief executive Brian Barwick has been sacked after it was decided England are now officially worse than a pub team, according to FA chairman Lord Triesman. The damning verdict comes after England’s hopeless 2-2 draw with the Czech Republic at Wembley on Wednesday night.

Barwick was instrumental in cocking up the hiring of Luiz Filipe Scolari and then awarding the job to Steve McClaren after apparently closing his eyes and pulling his name out of a hat. Speaking outside the FA’s headquarters in Soho Square, Barwick bragged about his ‘legacy’, which for some reason he thinks includes the late opening of Wembley Stadium, a project that took over six years to complete and cost nearly £800 million.

Lord Triesman, who describes Barwick as ‘the most dourest cunt I have ever met’, commented: “Brian’s contribution to the FA is hiring the worst England manager since Graham Taylor and following that up by giving the England job to somebody who could barely fucking speak English.

“And what does Capello do? Pick exactly the same team that McClaren picked. My fucking Gran could do that for 6.5 million quid a year - and the daft old bat is dead. We are even worse now than a pub team. Barwick can piss right off and take that stupid Italo twat with him.”

Meanwhile, Fabio Capello congratulated his England team for their ‘heroic’ come back against the Czech Republic, conveniently ignoring the fact they had been completely outplayed for 90 minutes. Joe Cole equalised for England in injury time, but only after the Czech Republic defence had sportingly sat down on the floor and allowed England to score.

Frank Lampard was quick to defend another woeful England performance and singled himself out for special praise. He said: “We can take a lot of positives out of tonight. We played well and I was as magnificent as I always am in an England shirt and I won’t let anybody tell me otherwise.”

However, Czech Republic goalkeeper Petr Cech was unconvinced by England’s progress under Capello. “They were a bit shit, weren’t they?” he laughed.

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