Sven Goran Eriksson was England manager from 2001 to 2006, leading them to 3 major quarter-finals and managing to lose all 3 of them when they had a decent chance of winning them.
That may be a damning criticism of Eriksson, but he was a solid manager who knew the value of match-winners. He might have lacked a bit in terms of strategic innovation or man-management, but after seeing what McClaren managed in the year after him, Eriksson wasn’t that bad after all.
Soccerlens continues its full season preview of the English Football League, as we move up from the Conference to League Two, which promises to be tighter than than...
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Written by Gary Andrews. 6 comments
The oldest league club in world languishing in the bottom division of the football league is taken over by a foreign consortium who hire one of the most recognisable names in the game to oversee operations promising to overhaul the team and the facilities...
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Written by Kristian Downer. 2 comments
Sir Alex Ferguson had had a quiet couple of weeks, all things considered. The furore over the futures of Cristiano Ronaldo & Carlos Tévez had long since died down, the modest signings of Antonio Valencia, Michael Owen & Gabriel Obertan had...
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Written by Neil Jones. 3 comments
As we amble through the ‘most amazing transfer season ever’, drunk on the memories of the ‘closest title race ever’ from last season and looking forward to what surely must be ‘the most exciting Premier League season ever’,...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 26 comments
Stereotypes are often harsh, but always fun. Especially in sport. And Sven-Göran Eriksson has experienced more than most the effects of such stereotypic nonsense.
Whether it was as a cheque book manager, an untrustworthy one, a clever one,...
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Written by Neil Jones. 7 comments
It’s not often you feel sorry for footballers. After all, their heartache is pretty minimal when you hold it up against the light of the real world.
Three weeks till payday and not a penny in the bank account? Well Carlos here never got a...
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Written by Neil Jones. 3 comments
In life there are only a handful of things that are certain. You will watch Big Brother. It will irritate you. MPs will lie through their back teeth (and their front ones). Summer does make girls more attractive. And makes you feel less so. People...
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Luiz Felipe Scolari shed some insight into his situation at Chelsea right before he was given the pink slip by Roman Abramovich on Monday. He admitted that...
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About ten years ago Nick Hancock co-wrote a book called What Didn’t Happen Next, which was an amusing look at the butterfly effect in football and those little changes which might have rewritten the annals of football.
What if...
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Written by markwithoutspin. 5 comments
While football success and failure is usually measured season to season, from August to May, the end of an year gives an opportunity to look back on the calender twelve months and see who we think has been worthy of appearing in this column.
Here’s...
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Written by Graham Fisher. 8 comments
