Capello says he is innocent but that his sons are sinners

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In response to the two investigations currently being conducted in Italy, Capello has told Vanity Fair magazine that he has nothing to hide. The courts, he said, will find that neither he nor his wife and children are guilty of tax fraud. And he says much the same when it comes to the recent accusation that he had withheld information from the court during a trial involving Luciano Moggi and the Gea World sports agency.

"If there was one thing that I've always said to my consultants, it was that I didn't want to end up on the front page because of tax problems," said Capello. "But it happened. I am very convinced that everything has been done in a correct way, I am calm."

And the trial involving Moggi, with whom he says he still enjoys a good relationship? "I was very surprised," he said. "I was heard by the prosecutor as a witness during the investigation and at the trial I repeated the same things that I had already said. I am convinced everything will be sorted out soon.

"We go out to dinner with our wives, you cannot cancel certain things. If someone makes a mistake, for me they are not automatically dead. The results of Juventus were obtained on the field by me and the players, suffering and battling."

Citing the fact that he is "old", Capello said the England job would be his "last role" in football. But that will not offer much comfort to the England players when they hear what his son, Pierfilippo, had to say about him in the same magazine.

Capello insists he is not a "severe" disciplinarian. "We (the players the coaching staff) are together for only a short time so I think we should respect the rules. Then I am open to all the games and jokes."

But his son explained how Capello even frowns upon the fact that he and his brother, Edoardo, have not married their live-in partners.

"Neither my brother, who has two children, and I are married," said Pierfilippo. "We live with our partners. We are a beautiful family and we don't feel the need to get married.

"My father hasn't taken well to the idea. Both he and my mother are upset about it. They weren't affectionate in their gestures (as parents). They were not into hugs and kisses.

"My father is convinced that everyone knows and reasons like he does. For example, when we were young he couldn't understand why we would want to get in at 3am, because when he was young he was always in bed by 9.30."

Capello did little to play down the image. "I wasn't the nagging type," he said. "My wife (Laura) looked after the children more. She is a very kind and gentle lady. She is a teacher who has made it her mission to be a housewife and bring up the children.

"She did it with joy and she did it very well. They are two great lads. One (Pierfilippo) is a lawyer the other (Edoardo) is a financial consultant.

"They tried to be footballers but they didn't have the aptitude. I realised it straight away so I told them it was better to concentrate on their studies.

"I am religious. I go to Mass regularly. I married my wife when we were very young and I have never been apart from her for more than a week.

"Hotels make me sad, I need a home. Our problem has always been that we have been on the move, we have moved too many times."