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Oasis Top UK Album Charts, Noel Gallagher Down on England

The latest Oasis best-of collection, 'Time Flies 1994-2009,' has gone straight into the album charts at No. 1, the NME reports. The two-disc retrospective beat out the 'Glee' cast to claim the top spot for the Manchester collective's first post-split release.

Meanwhile, ex-Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher had some harsh words for the England manager Fabio Cappello following the team's woeful World Cup performance against Algeria on Friday. "Before tonight everyone really respected him, but he's kind of turned into some kind of silly wizard," the rocker said on ITV's 'World Cup Live' chat show following the 0-0 draw.

Gallagher isn't optimistic about England's chances in their next game on Wednesday either, where they will have to defeat Slovenia in order to progress to the knock-out stages of the tournament. "If they couldn't beat Algeria tonight I cant see them beating Slovenia," he said. "Slovenia are going to need to draw that game to go through, so they've got something to play for, it's all over."

The Manchester City fan also revealed that England's traditional World Cup struggles haven't always been totally unwelcome in the Oasis camp. Recalling the release of 2002 single 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out', Gallagher explained: "We knew when it was picked as a single it would be released at the time of the World Cup. We thought, 'We are bound to get knocked out to this.' 'Kerching,' I said."

Alas, it seems unlikely the feuding Oasis boys will be able to get it together to rush-release something equally maudlin in time for Wednesday afternoon.

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Marco

Noel: "He is a great Manager, hands down. There are six players in that team: theres Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, Ashley Cole.... em... alright, theres four... they are pretty decent, like John Terry, fine, he's alright, you know, they are probably world class players, they've played Champions League finals and all that, they know what they're doing. I don't think you can say, "Its the Manager", because we've been through all that, you know what I mean?, we've got the Manager, the players we see week in week out and they're great, and I just think its the whole... its the England "thing", innit, do you know what I mean? I dono, maybe the weight of expectation from the media, and the fans is too big."

June 22 2010 at 5:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marco

you clearly didn't listen to his (serious) interview on TalkSport. He said Capello (not "Cappello", that means hat in Italian) is a great manager and the problems are the only 4 great players in England, and the pressure from the media. If you report what he said on a comic show, it's quite different

June 22 2010 at 5:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply