Sven-Göran Eriksson on Expectations
What's the pressure like when the fans, the media & the whole country expect you to win?
Sacked in the Morning · BBC Radio Scotland
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Show Notes
What's the pressure like when the fans, the media and the whole country expect you to win? Sven-Göran Eriksson, the man who believes he should have delivered the World Cup for England, joins Craig and Amy to discuss expectations.
As a manager who had won titles across three countries, plus 10 domestic cup competitions and three European trophies, was he expected to succeed wherever he went? When he took the England job did the FA tell him he had to win the World Cup? And as manager of England's "Golden Generation" what are his regrets?
All that plus we hear stories of David Beckham signing for Real Madrid and Sven's attempts to take him to Leicester City, we hear stories of 7am angry phone calls from Sir Alex Ferguson, plus who was the Queen's favourite England player and why?