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THE Football Association were yesterday left embarrassed after England manager Fabio Capello and stand-in captain Rio Ferdinand said they would be happy to play a controversial friendly against Spain in the Bernabeu in Madrid.
Soho Square are in advanced talks with the Spanish Football Federation over the venue for the game, scheduled for February 11, having told Sportsmail they would not return to the stadium where black players were subjected to monkey chants by Spanish supporters four years ago. But Ferdinand, who was in that team, said: 'Going back to Madrid is not a problem. Wherever the FA ask us to play isn't a problem. The players won't mind that. Everyone knows what happened last time.See the full content of this document
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Fa Red-Faced As Duo Back the Bernabeu
'If we did go back, it would be nice to imagine that the kind of stuff that happened to the b...
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