Sven Goran Eriksson

Sven Goran Eriksson is a hugely popular and successful manager in World Football, he will be best known to English fans as the previous manager of England but he has had successful spells in Swedish, Portuguese and Italian football before coming to England. Eriksson was ruined by the British press with their portrayal of him as a money grabbing ladies man, on paper his record as England Manager was excellent he managed to help the country qualify for every tournament he was involved in. His qualifying record was amazing and whilst our performance in big tournaments did leave much to be desired this was down to a mixture of injuries, poor decisions and the ...  Read the complete review

I really do like Sven as a manager, although many of my fellow countrymen will tell you he is not passionate enought to be an england manager - my answer to this is look how passionate kevin keegan was and his success is not as good as sven who has no led us to his third quater-finals. Sven is a manager in the mould of arsen Wenger, a man i'd love to see manage england (oh if only he wasnt french). who relies more on his half time talks than jumping up and down like a monkey in the technical area. Sven has had the chance to introduce some of english footballs most promising talent to the world stage at the world cup - Aaron lennon, Downing, Walcott and ...  Read the complete review

Sven has done rather a good job as England manager and he simply doesn't deserve all the stick that he gets from the English media and commentators. Just because he's a foreigner, wears glasses and has a large forehead... he does't deserve all the abuse. And so what if he did have it away with his secretary... who wouldn't if they were offered it on a plate at his age? I think a lot of it is also to do with a certain jealousy of Sweden as a nation. It's simply a better country and people there a more sensible. They don't get mixed up in World wars for example nor suck up to the USA. And if you take into account the size of their population compared to England ...  Read the complete review

When Kevin Keegan walked out on England following an ignominious defeat to Germany at Wembley in England’s last ever fixture at the old stadium, I for one was happy when a foreign coach was appointed. In that one job placement, years of xenophobia were finally eradicated as the FA realised that English managers were, in general, inept when it came to tactics at international level. And so with the sophisticated Swede in charge maybe, just maybe, England could finally exorcise that ghost of 1966 and win something at last. Sven-Göran Eriksson joined England as National Team Coach in January 2001. Born in Torsby on 5 February 1948, his pedigree was impressive ...  Read the complete review

So Sven’s been at it again. His meeting with a fake sheik couldn’t have come at a worse time with the world cup a matter of months away. Of course there are always two sides to every story and it seems everyone has an opinion. Personally I’m in two minds. On one hand the news of the World acted a bit underhand considering the job Sven has to do in the summer. I’ve no doubt that come the World Cup, the paper will be slobbering at the mouth with back pages full of England propaganda. I can see it now, Becks and Rooney draped in the St George. Frank Lampard mocked up to look like a lion – you get the picture. But this is the newspapers job, they need ...  Read the complete review