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England's Coach To Spy on His Players Using Hi-Tech Hotel TVs

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June 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM | by | Comments (2)

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is almost here and we plan on giving you the full low-down on where fans should hotel it up during the matches. But first, we have to applaud this most excellent use of hotel technology by the England team's coach--Fabio Capello.

Word is Capello plans to spy on his players at the Bafokeng Camp Royal Marang Hotel by using hi-tech hotel TVs to ensure they are getting proper sleep and are not engaging in amorous behavior with any WAGs (aka wives and girlfriends.)

The Daily Star reports:

The tellies have been installed at the team’s £327 million base camp in Rustenberg. But the news has not gone down well with the stars. A source close to the squad revealed: “It’s going to be like Big Brother. “The hotel rooms used to be the place we all escaped to, now they’re not safe!”

As it turns out, Capello probably had these sneaky spy TVs planned for about a year.

The Daily Mail reported back in September that the coach had a very heavy hand in the design of the base camp which aside from the 82-room hotel (with rates at £1,000-a-night) also includes eight football pitches, a medical center, a wood-finished locker room and several treatment rooms.

But what we really want to know about are these hi-tech TVs. Does this mean Capello can see the footballers when they are sleeping? Does he get reports if a sensor in the TV senses there is more than one person in the room? Or is this simple a computer monitor with a webcam that also acts as a TV?

However these TVs work, it looks like we already have a contender for next year's Geek Hotels 2010 list. Now, we just hope those pesky WAGs heed Coach Capello's rules.

For more pics of the England team's home for the next few weeks (or until they get knocked out) check out the Telegraph's photo gallery.

For more on the 2010 World Cup, head over to World Cup Travel Guide!

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don't believe it

I don't believe that he's had tellies installed to spy on the players. I can't imagine how that would work.He's not gonna come in from training and sit in his room watching a panoramic shot of 23 players rooms waiting for something to happen.Seems a bit perverse

rich
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ukdestination on June 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM #Permalink

brillz

i'd love to think this was true, although seeing as it was in the star, i fear not. LOVE fabio.
juliab on June 7, 2010 at 11:35 PM #Permalink
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