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Oh, it's Bombay.

Nick Bombay! England's first goal under Sven Yeran Erickson.

The first goal of the Sven Yurin-Erikson-Eyland era.

And Sven is our special guest tonight on Monday night football.

And this was his record, 67 games overall with a win percentage of 60 but

competitive games 38 only five defeats and two of those were by penalties as well so only three

actual defeats Sven over 38 games and of course you were the first foreign manager that we

had and reached three quarter finals and you were for a time looming largely over all of us in England.

We had a really good start as well.

Did you feel like you hit the ground running?

Yeah, if you talk about Spain, the first game,

that was good to beat Spain, of course, in the first game.

And then it came slowly up to the German game.

And, of course, if you beat German away, life was much easier.

Did that feel like a turning point almost then?

Or, you know, you'd won the hearts of the nation?

I would guess so.

After that game, I didn't hear anything about a four-ender as manager of England for a while.

I actually, before you were getting appointed, I wasn't someone who was in the England

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