News about Sven-Goran Eriksson

IAN HERBERT: Pele, the 25-year-old boy who stepped out from a wooden cabin on Scotland's west coast in 1966, was immaculately dressed as the Brazilian football team was back then, boots polished to a shine, and white towel in hand. He was already a superstar on his own when he competed for the Jules Rimet trophy on English soil in July, but the Brazilian team had to prepare for Troon's improvable surrounds. The climate was supposed to suit them, but the Marine, a fine hotel, was still standing two miles up the road today, although it was not made clear that it would. They were unemployed, according to the news. It was the talk of a hosiery factory near Kilmarnock, where Elsie Cook, a knitter, became aware of the alert when one of the company's mechanics noticed it while trying to repair one of the machines.

IAN LADYMAN: This week hasn't been a good week for football's traditional paying customers. A VAR postponement of nearly six minutes at West Ham, cost hikes at Manchester City, and OAP compromises were scrapped at Tottenham Hotspur. Meanwhile, Chelsea's ties with the club and its fanbase are also worsening. It's a sad picture, for sure, but it's one painted on a wall that's already pockmarked with continuing and ingrained contempt for match-going football fans. Public transport issues, kick-off times, and parking issues have caused some price hikes. The travel route has been planned for a long time, but there is no sign of ending. It's just shameful.

David Beckham and Roberto Mancini are among the well-wishers who have sluggishly called former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson after he revealed that he had been suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer. Sven, a footballer, has been fighting the disease for a year, only informing close family and acquaintances, but he revealed the shocking news during a Swedish radio station interview last week. Since then, his phone has been ringing all around the world, including England, Italy, Portugal, and even China, where he worked for four years. In the living room of his stunning home overlooking a frozen Lake Fryken in Sunne after welcoming us in, he spoke to MailOnline.

As the former England manager admitted to support the Premier League team, Sven-Goran Eriksson has admitted that he wanted to oversee Liverpool throughout his career. After being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, the 75-year-old revealed this week that he has around a year to live 'at his best'. During an interview with Sky News, Eriksson wondered if there was a role in football that he wished not to pass by during his managerial career.

Nancy Dell'Olio sums it up in uncharacteristically sombre terms. 'This is the match of life, isn't it?' She claims she is lying. We always use football terms, but it's the only way to say it.' Of course, we're talking about her love and the fact that his life is now in its final stages. Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former England manager (and, let's be honest, former Mr Nancy Dell'Olio), reported this week that he has terminal pancreatic cancer and has a year to live.

Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former England boss, has admitted that his terminal cancer diagnosis was difficult to accept for him and his family. Following his illness, Eriksson, 75, announced on Thursday that he had 'probably at least a year' to live.' His pancreatic cancer was discovered after he suffered 'five small strokes' after failing after going for a 5k run last year.

Nancy, a ten-year partner with Sven, 75, said she knew she was sick but had no idea of his devastating illness. Giancarlo Massa, the glamorous Italian who left her husband Giancarlo Massa for the coach, was a regular on his team and was photographed many tournaments with him. 'I didn't think 2024 would open with more bad news,' Nancy, 62, who is in Italy following the death of her mother, said. I knew that Sven was sick, but hearing this brings so much... I knew he wasn't well, but it was amazing to hear his words. Life can be cruel.'

OLIVER HOLT: Sven Goran Eriksson's harbingers of woe and doom arrived in the years before he ruled the England men's team at the start of this century. They came to him with prophecies of his demise as a result of a romantic marriage, a quarter-final loss, or a feeling that he was not qualified to lead England's vainious Golden Age. He stayed on his level, quiet, and compassionate. I never saw him enraged. He always bade impostors and investigators on their good day, but ultimately, they were the losers, victims of his unflappable urbanity.

Ulrika Jonsson was seen pale in public for the first time after her ex lover Sven-Goran Eriksson revealed today that she was dying of terminal cancer. Following five'small strokes,' the former England manager, who revealed his pancreatic cancer, was diagnosed. His news shocked football fans around the world and those who remember him from his glory days more than two decades ago.

Over the summer, the 34-year footballer announced his retirement from football and his wife has been enjoying some downtime. During their sun-soaked holiday, he was seen sunbathing with his wife Melanie, 35, and playing football on the beach.

Gareth Southgate has planned a secluded base in Germany next year to prevent a repeat of the WAG circus that dominated England's 2006 World Cup. After Monday's 1-1 draw in North Macedonia brought their qualification effort to a close, England staff are choosing a site for the team's Euro 2024 HQ. The tournament will be the first to be held in Germany since the World Cup, and will bring back memories of the turbulent campaign under Sven Goran Eriksson.

LEWIS STEELE: In a timeline of Notts County's recent past, there are plenty of junctures where we could begin this tale. Perhaps it's been the most turbulent club to help in 2007 or relegation from the Football League after 131 years in 2019. We could start with the heartbreaking death of much-loved CEO Jason Turner in March or the tears of joy that followed after the 50-year-old smiling guy was placed on the top tier of Wembley to watch over their play-off final triumph two months later. But a turn of events that puts the current wave of optimism into perspective is the best place to start in a recap of their last two decades, an age in which there have been much more grim than sunny days.

As we at Liverpool in 2005, my former club Manchester City do not need another 'Miracle of Istanbul' to bring home the Champions League. City deservingly deserve the award because this season has unquestionably been Europe's best team. Inter Milan is practically unbeatable over two legs, and although it is not likely for them to win a one-off match, I'd be surprised. Having Erling Haaland as a coach gives the City players tremendous confidence because he can score out of nowhere, and Ruben Dias at the back has been as important as Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk.

If you're in possession of a multi-capped England celebrity, you should have a face that no one in the country would recognise. Well, practically every one. At least, you should expect companies behind some of the most popular video games to at least get the basics of a player's resemblance correct. However, over the years, even the most prominent and popular of England actors have left supporters scratching their heads when trying to imitate their heroes once they pick up a controller. Can you guess these England stars who have played a major role for their international side over the years based on their past appearance in video games?

IAN LADYMAN: Sven Goran Eriksson's England lost in the first eight of the 2002 World Cup and to Portugal on penalties four years later. The team of Roy Hodgson was disqualified at the same stage of Euro 2012 to Italy. There was nothing particularly heroic about any of that. They were England teams that were largely expected to have failed. We're now at Christmas 2022, but things are different. Gareth Southgate's decision to remain England manager for the next 18 months was first announced in the Sunday Times and then formally by the FA on Monday morning, and has been largely viewed as a good thing. Some naysayers remain. Southgate will always be blamed for England's inability to win two World Cups and one European Championship. Some people's views of football are strange.

SAMUEL MARTIN SAMUEL CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: The fascination of the general public is a curious thing. Matt Hancock was a digested kangaroo testicle, or two, away from being the king of the jungle, but if Gareth Southgate does not start Marcus Rashford against Senegal on Sunday and England is eliminated, he will never be able to live it down. Crystal Palace, Watford, Nottingham Forest, the potent Newcastle, Derby, Queens Park Rangers, Wolves, Aston Villa, Leicester, Notts County - these are the jobs in English football that await the men who are supposed to have made the national team's pinnacle before falling short. Glenn Hoddle spent a year with Manchester City, but those clubs are now in the top leagues.

The emergence of the phenomenon that is referred to as the 'WAG' - the acronym for wives and girlfriends of our top sportsmen - has no official date, but there is one individual who is still positive about its ancestry. 'Of course, it started with me,' declares - who else? Nancy Dell'Olio. 'Because I came along in 2001 and yes, I believe the English people had never seen anyone like me before in the football world.' Well, before Nancy, no one would have firmly identified the England football team's manager, and it's certainly fair to say that it's unlikely that before Nancy. That all changed in January 2001, when Sven Goran-Eriksson was appointed to the role.

MARTIN SAMUEL CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: We're adamant when England brought six people over Iran in their first World Cup game. It could be a 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia. It could be a draw. It could be a nail-biting fight for a victory. It was none of those things for England. Does it mean the World Cup is in Gareth Southgate's grasp? No, not really. It's a game against Iran. Argentina's loss in Lusail on Tuesday demonstrated what can go wrong, and what often does go wrong for major teams and players in major tournaments.

MARTIN SAMUEL – CHIEF SPORTS WRITER IN QATAR: The fans who were paid to be the cheerleaders of this World Cup will not be receiving their promised daily allowances. At source, the beer that was supposed to flow freely had been refused. An iron fist and the threat of suspensions put the rainbow armband movement to a halt. So one thing remains: the narrator. What would happen if, by 8pm local on November 29 - or maybe even 6pm four days earlier - there was no more Qatar at the Qatar World Cup?What promises might be reneged upon then?What welcome mat might be hastily rolled up and put away? Nobody knows what will happen next. Without Qatari interest, how long before FIFA and their hangers-on seriously outstay their welcome?

Fans of England's controversial booze ban just 48 hours before the World Cup takes place. After coming under pressure from the Qatari royal family, only a few hundred England supporters were in Doha when FIFA announced that alcohol would not be sold on stadium concourses. Budweiser was also embarrassment after being identified as one of the tournament's sponsors, and it had been granted monopoly to sell beer at the stadiums. It was intended to sell alcoholic beer within each of the eight stadiums three hours before and one hour after each game.

According to reports, Qatari authorities have requested FIFA to ban alcohol from World Cup stadiums just 48 hours before the tournament gets underway. The build-up to the tournament has been plagued by questions surrounding alcohol intake in public areas, with the Islamic country overtly worried about alcohol use in public areas. With fan parks selling Budweiser bottles for £12 and limitations on how many bottles can be ordered, the price of beer for supporters travelling to Qatar has already made news, with fan parks selling bottles of Budweiser.

MARTIN SAMUEL, CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: If Qatar had used footage of the European Championship final at Wembley last year to support an argument for tightening the laws on alcohol consumption rather than loosening them during the tournament, who could really blame them? Rather, they have taken the route of broken promises. Beer was supposed to be cheap, but it wasn't, it's costly — around £11.60 for a pint of Budweiser — not Quite The Worst Beer In The World, Because That's Fosters.)

Luiz Felipe Scolari, the former Chelsea boss, has announced his retirement from teaching, aged 74, following a rollercoaster career that culminated with Brazil's 2002 World Cup victory. Scolari departed after Athletico Paranaense's 3-0 victory over Botafogo in the final round of the Brazilian Championship on Sunday, ending the season in sixth place. The Brazilian started his teaching career in 1982 and has held positions around the world, but it is his achievements as national team manager for Brazil and Portugal that he is most remembered for.

After being accused of stealing the spotlight, Sven Goran-Eriksson has defended Victoria Beckham, Coleen Rooney, and the rest of the 2006 World Cup WAGs brigade. As the glamorous crew sat in the stands and spent fun-filled nights out in Germany during the tournament, the Swedish football manager, 74, maintained that the group were doing 'completely normal stuff.'