Former England manager Graham Taylor has demanded that John Terry issue a public apology to save Fabio Capello’s squad from being torn apart. Preparations for this summer’s World Cup have been thrown into disarray by revelations about the Chelsea skipper’s private life. The fallout has seen Wayne Bridge call a premature end to his international career, Capello take the captain’s armband away from Terry and the full glare of the media fall on the team. Speaking to Goal.com UK at a VIP reception for the England 2018 World Cup bid, Taylor was adamant the centre-back must atone for his actions. He said: “Fabio Capello has a problem with the Terry situation, it’s eaten in much deeper than people are aware. We’ve all seen that, the media are not going to let it go. “John I think would be well advised if he did come up with an apology sooner or later, and preferably sooner, but he has chosen not to do. “We would [also] say that his form is a little bit unsure at the present time.” Taylor led England for three years and guided the side during the unsuccessful qualifying campaign for the 1994 World Cup. The former Aston Villa and Watford boss lifted the lid on the unique pressures of international management and praised the way Capello has handled the Terry fiasco. He said: “International level is different than club level because you are dealing with an international dressing room where players have competed against one another. “Sometimes that can be, not difficult to handle, and never difficult to handle during the games, but during the build up people tend to stick together with their club mates. “I think with Fabio he has taken a hands-off approach, a distant approach, and at the moment that seems to be working. “If we’re not successful and Fabio goes and a new manager comes in, they’ll be saying ‘it’s a far more relaxed atmosphere, it’s much better’. So, you have to win. “If you win, what you do is right, and if you don’t win, everything you do is wrong. At the moment that’s the position Fabio has. “I speak from experience and we didn’t qualify for 1994 and I will take that to my grave. Now, I’m not going to stand here and go back to 1994 and say ‘there was this, there was this and all that,’ and Capello will do exactly the same.” The current chairman of Watford has offered his backing to the campaign to see England host the World Cup in eight years' time. He insisted the infrastructure is in place, but warned that FIFA may decide to hand the tournament to a developing nation. He said: “I think it’s right and proper that we should be bidding. We had a go some years ago that wasn’t successful. “I think our stadiums and everything about football in our country says that after, what is it now, 44 years, we should have another World Cup. “The problem that we have is that FIFA want to make football a really all-world game and they have to go in to other countries."
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