Animation

The Cap and Psycho series ran on the When Saturday Comes website during the World Cup and featured a sensible little Stuart Pearce and crazed dictatorial Fabio Capello as they tried vainly to keep the England Project on the rails.

6th June 2010
Watch out for some not-that-madcap footballing non-adventures with Fabio Capello and his hilarious sidekick Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce.

10th June 2010
More World Cup adventures for Fabio Capello and Stuart Pearce in this not-quite-feature-length animation – co-starring Sepp Blatter.

11th June 2010
More animated World Cup excitement. Stuart has concerns about the USA’s work rate and belief. But Fabio is not worried.

17th June 2010 – The Beckenbauer Incident.
Fabio is stung by Franz Beckenbauer’s criticisms of his methods. He decides the best form of revenge is to play some beautiful football. But who will he pick?

23rd June 2010
It’s the eve of the crunch game with Slovenia and at last Fabio shows his progressive side by outlining a range of sophisticated ideas and tactics that leave the players feeling very positive.

June 28th 2010
More England-related animated fun. It’s time for Stuart and Fabio to go over what went wrong against Germany… or is it?

The WSC Very Accurate Guide to the World Cup

A celebration of the genius of West Germany keeper Harald ‘Toni’ Schumacher

The story of England’s progress in the 1986 – complete with the ‘big man’ system and Bobby Robson’s dream about a magical stone monkey.

At the 1990 World Cup Irish manager Jack Charlton had a plan for success. But not everyone was happy, especially elegant giraffe-necked defender David O’Leary. This short animation has been translated from English accents by Irish voice actors at the RTE Realistic Irish Voices Dept.