“So Sven is ‘used’ to his job, eh? Do we really want someone in charge of our country’s football team who is just ‘used’ to the job, despite the ‘annoyances’? It’s absolutely ridiculous, we want someone who loves the job and has a passion for it, not someone who is used to it!”
— www.chelseafc.com
“Will Svennis keep his job? Yes 35 per cent. No 56 per cent. Don’t Know 9 per cent.”
— www.aftonbladet.se
“To be honest, I can’t stand Sven and his tactics, but he’s been pulled a dirty trick by this so-called newspaper. He’s got every right to plan his future after the World Cup — although looking at the amount of money he’s getting, I wonder why he would want to leave his current job in the first place.”
— www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb606
“Sven is greedy, English football is greedy, perfect match.”
— www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb606
“This is a disgrace, and I’ll tell you why. Villa are on the way down and what the News of the World have done is basically draw up blueprints of how to make Villa successful. All it takes now is for a multimillionaire to read it, find out that Sven is interested and that there’s a possibility of signing Beckham, and he can implement it, thus turning Villa’s future around. Businessmen wouldn’t have a clue about Sven and Beckham if it weren’t for the newspaper. There is only one thing I must now do, I must arm myself with a grenade launcher, drive down to London and destroy the computers holding the story and the printing machines. Stop the future before it’s printed.”
— www.forum.football365.com
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“Is the News of the World embarrassing England? Yes 88 per cent. No 12 per cent.”
— www.aftonbladet.se
“It was a six-month investigation and I am sorry to say that Sven has screwed up this time and there can be no more excuses. When the truth comes out from this interview then all the players will lose confidence in him and England will need to appoint a new manager.”
— www.bbc.co.uk/606
“He won’t go, he won’t lose his job, he hasn’t said anything remotely interesting apart from the fact that Anton Ferdinand might be better then Rio and IF he did go, the FA in their ‘wisdom’ would give the job to a safe pair of hands for fear of the wrath of the NotW — step forward Mr Steve ‘was it 7? Well, we had a lot of kids playing ’ McClaren.”
— www.chelseafc.com
“Is Sven embarrassing Sweden? Yes 39 per cent. No 61 per cent.”
— www.aftonbladet.se
“Eriksson är i blåsväder igen. Den här gången har han lurats av utklädda journalister att avslöja att han vill lämna sitt jobb efter VM i sommar.”
— www.svd.se
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