Articles tagged with "sven-goran-eriksson"
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Mar 23rd, 2007
So called "super-agent" Pini Zahavi has claimed that the reason for England's dismal World Cup was jealousy of David Beckham.
"The problem in the World Cup ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 23rd, 2006
The England blog is back and - much like the team - it's under new management. Shawn was caught negotiating with a fake sheikh about ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 15th, 2006
Word is that US Soccer have been talking to this man.
Let's hope it's not true.
But if it is, then here's what the future of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 15th, 2006
The celestial forces of the universe are playing mind tricks on us all now that there are reports that Sven-Goran Eriksson is being considered as ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 11th, 2006
After padding his bank account while leading England to its traditional mediocre finish at the World Cup, former manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is tired of having ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 28th, 2006
Wake up and smell the football news...
North Korea's women go down fighting. (ABC)
Ruud in Madrid for medical, but United still haggling over money. (The Guardian)
Sven ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jul 1st, 2006
Sven says that his reputation as a quality manager is secure no matter what happens on Saturday.
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 29th, 2006
Two accounts of Sven's response to his critics:
"Eriksson happy to 'win it playing bad'"
"Eriksson gives both barrels to England critics"
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 27th, 2006
It's Big, Brassy Phil vs. Inscrutible Sven, and Big Phil reckons he knows who's better.
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Jun 27th, 2006
Did Ecuador coach Luis Suarez earn his nearly 1/2 million dollar salary this year? I have to think he did. The goal was ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 24th, 2006
In The Guardian, Richard Williams muses on one of the great love stories of our times: that between Sven Goran Eriksson, David Beckham and ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 23rd, 2006
Some good Sven items today:
1) The reporter absolutely buried the lede here. In a long article about the spotty defending in the Sweden match, ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Jun 23rd, 2006
Seventeen-year-old England striker Theo Walcott may make his national team debut against Ecuador on Sunday. With England's already-thin group of forwards made even thinner ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 19th, 2006
"Eriksson wants strikers to shine"
Gee, ya think?
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 19th, 2006
Sven is hinting that Theo Walcott might feature tomorrow: ""I would like to see him play."
Well, maybe he's hinting that he plans on giving ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 17th, 2006
According to one report, Sven is considering starting Our Captain at right fullback so that Aaron Lennon gets more of a run-out.
You know, for a ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 12th, 2006
Michael Owen apparently demanded an explanation from Sven about being substituted out of the match on Saturday.
Good for him.
When do the rest of us get ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 12th, 2006
Somewhere the Ukraine players are grumbling right now. While their coach Oleg Blokhin has promised them that they will be allowed some alone time ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 8th, 2006
According to Sven it's up to him and Wayne Rooney whether the lad plays: "I am prepared to listen to everyone and discuss it ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 6th, 2006
Is Sven going Galactico on us? A Real Madrid chairmanship hopeful hopes so.
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 5th, 2006
'....We've got Defoe in case he doesn't'
The manager's latest word on Wayne Rooney's fitness.
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 4th, 2006
Yet another predictable rant about how it's impossible to know what Sven is thinking.
First off, I think it's pretty clear what he's thinking: Terry, ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | May 31st, 2006
"We Fear No One," says Sven.
Suddenly I don't feel so confident......
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | May 23rd, 2006
1) Owen is great!
2) Wayne will play!
3) Everyone's fit!
4) Walcott's a miracle!
5) Gerrard can fly like an eagle!
Somebody's been taking their happy pills.
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | May 21st, 2006
Sven is complaining about the manner and timing of his replacement.
And we should listen, really, because it's not like his behavior had anything to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 20th, 2006
Proving that a lame duck status can turn even a boring person into a bold risk taker, England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has firmly predicted that ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | May 11th, 2006
Okay, so he doesn't exactly come out and say England will be in the final match, but Sven definitely leans that way in this ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | May 9th, 2006
After announcing his squad, Sven sat at a computer at FA headquarters and chatted live with the fans. You can read the entire transcript ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | May 8th, 2006
At The Guardian, much fawning over the whole Walcott annointment:
1) Richard Williams makes the case for an instinctual move trumping the usual dull (read: ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | May 8th, 2006
Sven admits that he has chosen to his squad a 17 year-old whom he's never seen play in a match in Theo Walcott: "I've ...
