Sven Goran Eriksson

Biggest wins, longest serving managers and a lot more: Ten of the all-time greatest records of the England national football team.

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With just 22 short months left on the meter, the Football Association (FA) are already pressing ahead with the courting of possible successors to current England manager Fabio Capello – who has signalled his intentions to retire from the game …

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Given his recent extra-marital misdemeanours, it should come as little surprise that Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney‘s intrinsic commercial value has – if you’ll excuse the unavoidable pun – waned of late. His recurring inability to regulate which orifices he …

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Morning everybody, and welcome to the daily Soccerlens World Cup column. It’s day six of the tournament and, without trying to put a downer on the competition so far, there have been a few too many ‘damp squibs’ for my …

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With the eyes of the footballing world set to focus on Africa this summer you could forgive Sven-Goran Eriksson for starting to feel a little anxious. The former-England manager has been charged with leading the Ivory Coast at his third …

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An exclusive interview with Ivory Coast boss Sven Goran Eriksson features on today’s episode of the Soccerlens Podcast, with Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg.   The ex-England boss (in association with our good friends at Castrol) talks one on one about …

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With the unmistakable hair of Carles Puyol, the eyes of Xavi, Lionel Messi’s dynamic left foot and the accuracy of Thierry Henry’s right, the explosive legs of Cristiano Ronaldo and the imposing height of Peter Crouch, the world’s ultimate performing football player was unveiled today in London.

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A Brazilian, a Frenchman, a Serbian, two Swedes and, finally, an Algerian. At the 2010 World Cup – the pan-African showcase – there will be six teams representing the continent, but only one African trusted with coaching one of those …

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The Ivory Coast have hired a celebrity, not a coach, writes Mike Martin

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A timely boost for fed-up fans, the managerial futures of Gianfranco Zola, Sven Goran Eriksson and Roy Keane, plus football’s major embarrassments are all up for discussion on this week’s show, hosted by Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg.  O Globo’s …

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In July on this site I waxed lyrical about how the oldest league club in world languishing in the bottom division of the football league had been taken over by a foreign consortium in a fairytale the audacity of which bewildered the …

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Whilst we are used to (endlessly irritated by?) the hype surrounding every build-up to an England World Cup campaign, it’s fair to say that in 2006 much of the hype held water. Here was the ‘Golden Generation’; players who were …

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