Sven-Goran Eriksson at Notts County? Really?

Yes, in just three years, Sven has gone from England manager to Director of Football at a League Two club, via Manchester City and a disastrous spell in charge of Mexico albeit, Notts County are a club with a proud history as the world's oldest professional football club, fallen on hard times.

Whatever one might think about the current goings-on at Meadow Lane, it's difficult to not feel come degree of sympathy for their supporters over the media reactions to their appointment of Sven Goran Eriksson and Tord Grip. Heaven forfend that some elements of the British media would find the time to go out and actually learn anything about Notts County Football Club, the oldest of all of the Football League clubs and founder members of the oldest football league in the world - it was far easier and more convenient to run a number of patronising articles that read as something like print equivalent of the "Accrington Stanley?