And that concludes this remembrance and collection of tributes to the life and times of Sven. Rest well, a singular football man.
We await David Beckham’s tribute to Eriksson, who etained him as captain throughout his England reign, but the two remained friendly. Earlier this year, Beckham visited his former manager at his lakeside residence in Sweden, who described the visit to Radio Sweden’s P4 Varmland.
He came with six litres of wine from dates that were important to me. He had wine from 1948 – the year I was born, very nice of him. He is genuine, he could have been a big diva, but he is quite the opposite. He ate herring and potatoes and elk meat. The previous day he had sent a chef who fixed the food, and then he came and was here for a day, we sat chatting, a lot about football.
