Football Association chief executive Ian Watmore is feels Fabio Capello will still be England coach after next summer's World Cup. There have been rumours that the 63-year-old will step down after the World Cup, but Watmore does not anticipate Capello will leave before the end of his contract.

"His contract is until 2012 and nothing he has done publicly or privately intimates anything other than a desire to honour that contract," Watmore told the Daily Mail.

"Everything he is talking about, everything he is doing, the way he lives his life, the way he conducts his professional life, is about three more years.

"When we get much nearer to that time we will have to start thinking about what happens next, but we have made tremendous progress under his leadership and the focus now is on trying to ensure that England do as well as they can at the World Cup.

"Fabio has fantastic ambition for England, in this tournament and the next one. He likes his life in England and where he lives in London.

"He is a man with many facets to his life. He is not a football obsessive, but someone who is interested in art and culture, in music and so on, and there are few cities in the world better for pursuing those interests.

"I personally think he will stay the three years."

FA chairman Lord Triesman added: "It truly has not crossed my mind that he won't still be the England manager at the start of next season."