The Football Ramble’s Guide To… Sven-Göran Eriksson’s England
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
At last! Marcus, Luke, Jim and Andy put the reign of the balding smoothie himself under the unforgiving Ramble microscope. Well, one of us is perhaps a little less critical than the rest. A Sven-egg-in-a-nest haircut is the prize for guessing who that is…
They discuss the reception of England’s first foreign manager, Sven’s unprecedented charm offensive to win the public’s hearts, and what was really England’s undoing in an era that promised so much. There’s Sven fleeing a property with some clothes missing as well, of course.
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| 0:54.2 | Immediately after the match, manager Kevin Keegan resigned, reportedly from a toilet cubicle. |
| 1:05.4 | Things were bad and the FAA needed a solution. |
| 1:08.2 | Was it finally time to appoint a non-English manager? |
| 1:11.3 | Yes, yes it was. |
| 1:13.1 | Enter Sven Jornerixson. |
| 1:15.1 | And Silesis Galt gives Latsio another European trophy having won their first win in May. |
| 1:26.3 | The Swede came with high expectations after success with Latsio and almost immediately delivered |
| 1:31.6 | one of England's most memorable performances, 5-1 win over Germany in the reverse fixture |
| 1:36.8 | of that very same qualifying campaign. |
| 1:45.9 | How bright the future looked on that day. |
| 1:50.0 | The players looked revitalised. |
| 1:51.6 | The football was thrilling and the manager was so cerebral, mild-mannered and understated |
| 1:56.8 | that if the tabloids went digging into his private life to try and ruin him, then surely |
| 2:01.2 | they wouldn't find anything. |
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