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The struggle to put 1966 behind English football continues but at least they have created a shadow that is attempting to hide it. Under Capello, England have at last become a team and one that is beginning to build a reputation in world football.
Even the loss against Spain was not as bad as it had seemed and on another night the result could have been different.
What has changed? The personnel have not but the atmosphere has and this has been vital to the reinvention of the squad. Under Eriksson and particularly McClaren the players ruled and this has no place in football where the egos of professionals is king.
There is no doubt this is Capello's team and it is his rules they follow. Even the call up of Ledley King, only to send him home was the Italian's way of saying he has a job to do and he will not be intimidated by anyone, managers and players alike.
Saturday's game against Slovakia may have only been a warm-up game for tonight's European qualifier against Ukraine but these games are now taken seriously and so it proved with a comfortable 4-0 win.
Starting with what currently looks like his first choice team - Ferdinand being the exception - England dominated a Slovakian side at Wembley with some aplomb. Capello even found a way of winning this game easily without playing Gerrard in his favourite position.
He did end up there after three injuries to strikers but on the left he was equally effective. It is not important where Gerrard plays when England has the ball only when they are defending and Capello is instilling an intelligence surrounding how to fill gaps that has been non-existent in recent years.
It was Gerrard's link with Rooney that set up the first goal for Heskey and although they had to wait until the last 20 minutes for the last three goals - two from Rooney and one from Lampard - they created enough in the interim to suggest this is a team on the up.
Of course, this was a friendly, and Slovakia have a much more important game tonight against the Czech Republic, whilst a young Ukraine side will be much more motivated to perform at Wembley.
A win would virtually guarantee England a place in South Africa and only a serious decline in form could threaten that. At the moment this seems highly unlikely and it is a refreshing change to see a side develop rather than have to listen to all the false promises that everything would be all right once we got to the Championships. They never have been and in McLaren's case we did not even get a chance to find out because his side's performances were so bad in the qualifiers.
Along with Gerrard, Wayne Rooney is the true world class player in the side and the petulant behaviour at Craven Cottage only a week ago is now long forgotten. This is the power of the man in terms of his football ability. It is never long before he puts in a performance that ranks so high any misdemeanours are soon banished.
If he stays injury free, and suspension free, Rooney is the kind of player that makes the difference between winning a tournament and going out on penalties in the quarter-finals - he is that important to this team.
England play Holland in August and we will probably have to wait until then to ascertain further progress since the Spain game as games against Kazakhstan and Andorra will probably not provide any clues. Such is the way group stages are growing with more emerging teams it takes longer to assess the title potential of any squad as there are so many meaningless games to sift through.
Ultimately though, England have the players, they have the manager, they have the momentum and atmosphere needed to succeed and they even have a new kit that has approval from most quarters.
Is there anything that can stop them banishing 1966 from the history books? Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Spain and, of course, the dreaded penalty shootout, but let's not dwell on that until we have to.
