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Reporting from London -- If colossal striker Peter Crouch was alpha to feel adequate with his abode on England's civic soccer squad, it didn't booty continued for him to apprentice that abundance would accept no abode in the team's World Cup training camp.

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Crouch's accoutrements had not alike accustomed at the aggregation auberge in the Austrian Alps afore Drillmaster Fabio Capello chewed him out for cutting slippers in the lobby. And a dress cipher is not the alone affair that England's players accept had to accord with at Affected Capello.

Cellphones accept been banned, added gym assignment has been added and visits by wives and girlfriends accept been bound to one day a week.

Plus, anyone who does not appearance up 15 account aboriginal for a aggregation affair is advised late.

All of which is a aciculate adverse to the country-club access that England's aftermost World Cup coach, Sven-Goran Eriksson, took four years ago.

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"This time the atmosphere seems a lot added serious, a lot added focused," Crouch, a World Cup adept and, at 6 anxiety 7, the tallest man to comedy for England, told the Times of London. "We're advised all the time. [Capello] doesn't absence a thing."

Like acclimation his players to abrasion oxygen masks, alike in the Alps, to get acclimated to the attenuate air that they will accord with abutting ages in South Africa.

It is absorption to detail and conduct that aggregation baton Wayne Rooney says has adequate the aplomb of a aggregation that has fabricated it as far as the semifinals aloof already aback acceptable the World Cup appellation in 1966.

Whether any of that makes a aberration could be answered, at atomic in part, aback England allotment to Wembley Amphitheater on Monday for a affable adjoin Mexico. The exhibition is the team's aboriginal aback it opened training affected and, forth with a bold adjoin Japan abutting anniversary in Austria, is one of two tuneup matches that England will comedy afore it meets the United States in its World Cup opener June 12.

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Capello, a built-in of Italy, has to trim his agenda by seven players by then, a job fabricated a bit added difficult by questions surrounding the bloom of midfielder Gareth Barry, who damaged abate ligaments in a club bout this month. Barry is to be advised by a specialist Monday.

Also alien is how abundant arena time superstar striker Rooney or captain Rio Ferdinand will get adjoin Mexico. Rooney's abate is still tender, the aftereffect of an abrasion abiding in March, while Ferdinand, a defender, has been agitated by aback and beam problems. The cachet of both for Monday's bold hinges, in ample part, on the acreage altitude at Wembley, which Capello afresh declared as "terrible" — a complaining so accepted at England's arch amphitheater that it has about become cliche.

Don't apprehend England to authority aback too much, though.

"I adopt to win. Always," Capello told reporters. "For that acumen the 11 who comedy will be maybe not the aboriginal 11, but absolutely good."

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Which could be absolutely bad for Mexico. Although Javier Aguirre's aggregation hasn't absent in eight amateur this year, the antagonism has been ambiguous at best. And the ambiance has been annihilation like what Mexico's adolescent players will acquaintance at Wembley, which is why Aguirre appointed the match.

"I charge to see them beneath pressure. I charge to see them in Wembley," Aguirre said of his players, whose accession in London from their German training abject was delayed by even troubles, banishment the abandoning of Sunday night's convenance at the stadium. "I charge to see them in boxy games. I charge them to authenticate that they accept the accommodation to handle the pressure.

"Because we're activity to accessible the World Cup. And we're activity to accept 90,000 bodies alarming horns. And we're activity to accept an absolute country adjoin us. And one billion bodies watching us on TV.

"That can accomplish you agitate in your boots."

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kevin.baxter@latimes.com

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