When Sven-Goran Eriksson came to England – and braved the xenophobic storm

Sven-Goran Eriksson

This feature originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of FourFourTwo.

“No, I never was a hammer-thrower,” says Sven-Goran Eriksson. The 68-year-old manager of Shenzhen FC pauses and then, down a phone line from a holiday in Panama, he starts to laugh. “But oh yes, I remember them saying I was.”

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