By Alan Duffy

#gobshite #withoutaclub #sixgrandoutofpocket

Once one of the country's most highly-rated young players, 32-year-old Michael Ball has been punished by The FA for an offensive Tweet he sent to Coronation Street star Anthony Cotton.

It was a process that took around six years from top to tail in total, and it came in three very distinct phases. I had been a supporter of the England national team, reasoning that, with no foreign blood in the family tree and a knowledge that we weren't all as bad as we were painted, I had to have someone to follow for international tournaments.

It was a process that took around six years from top to tail in total, and it came in three very distinct phases. I had been a supporter of the England national team, reasoning that, with no foreign blood in the family tree and a knowledge that we weren't all as bad as we were painted, I had to have someone to follow for international tournaments.

Already this season there have been two sackings, two resignations and two departures by mutual consent in the Football League alone, including two ex-England managers; Steve McClaren and most recently Sven Goran-Eriksson.

Following numerous reports of the costs of sacking a manager in the press recently you would have thought club owners would think twice about sending their current choice on their way.

For Leicester City, might British be best? is a post from: Just Football

By David Cockcroft

An October managerial casualty seems to be the norm in today's game, yet the news of Sven Goran Eriksson heading out of the Leicester City exit door came as no little surprise to the football world.

In truth, with Leicester sitting only two points off the playoffs, the departure of Sven from Leicester does seem a little surprising. However, given his chequered past and ‘colourful' actions, it allows us to muse on just what might come next: 1. Permanent panellist on Shooting Stars? It's a show that has got a bit [.

Sven-Goran Eriksson sacked by Leicester City Telegraph.

Leicester City today dismissed, or "agreed by mutual consent to part ways" depending on which news source you trust, former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson after 12 months in charge and after something close to $20m of player purchases had been flushed down the sewer.

Sven-Goran Eriksson sacked by Leicester City Telegraph.

Leicester City today dismissed, or "agreed by mutual consent to part ways" depending on which news source you trust, former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson after 12 months in charge and after something close to $20m of player purchases had been flushed down the sewer.

Interesting stuff in the Mail. Well not interesting in any real sense, diverting perhaps. Anyway, football managers polled as to who they'd like to have dinner with:

Harry Redknapp Muhammad Ali, Vincent O'Brien, Bobby Moore
Paul Ince – Wife, John F Kennedy, Tiger Woods
Paul Lambert Elvis Presley, George Bush, George Best
Roberto Di Matteo Julius Caesar, Claudia Schiffer, Robert De Niro
Sam Allardyce Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Sir Alex Ferguson
Sven Goran Eriksson Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul, Barack Obama
Chris Coleman John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix
Tony Adams Jesus, Sir Alf Ramsey, Scarlett Johansson
Simon Grayson Geoffrey Boycott, Bono, Don Revie
Roberto Mancini Paolo Mantovani, The Pope, Sheikh Mansour
Rafa Benitez Julius Caesar, Al Pacino, Napoleon
David Moyes Mother, Tommy Burns, Kylie Minogue
Gustavo Poyet Fernando Morena, Michael Jordan, Wife
Neil Warnock – Queen, Barbara Streisand, Brian Clough
Steve McClaren Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Sir Alex Ferguson
Alex McLeish - Robert Di Niro, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali
Alan Pardew Muhammad Ali, Barrack Obama, Spike Milligan
Peter Reid Elvis Presley, Jesus Christ, Angelina Jolie
Chris Hughton Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Bill Shankly
Gianfranco Zola Father, wife, Diego Maradona

Shame no Roy, Jol or SAF.

In the wake of Sven Goran Eriksson's opinion that Arsene Wenger would be the ideal next England manager, bookmakers have installed the Frenchman at odds of 25/1 to take over from Fabio Capello when the Italian's contract is up next year.

Needless to say, few people will be in agreement with Eriksson's opinion and anyone with a brain cell will not really believe this will actually happen, moreover there is no way that the Arsenal boss would even consider taking the post (fortunately for England fans).

Of course, nothing will be decided until the end of the MLS season, so this may not be the last rumors we'll hear surrounding Galaxy midfielder David Beckham.

Personally, I'd be less surprised to see beckham end up as a part-owner of the Cosmos than a coach at a second tier club in England.

Former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson has singled out none other then Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger as the man who can lead the national team after Fabio Capello departs. Speaking ahead of England's decisive Euro 2012 qualifier with Montenegro, Sven Goran Eriksson insisted that Wenger has all the qualities and understanding of the game to [.

Former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson has singled out none other then Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger as the man who can lead the national team after Fabio Capello departs. Speaking ahead of England's decisive Euro 2012 qualifier with Montenegro, Sven Goran Eriksson insisted that Wenger has all the qualities and understanding of the game to [.

By Chris Wright

On behalf of Yahoo and the League Manager's Association, a 20-strong phalanx of managers have been quizzed over their ideal dinner dates.

All the usual suspects were present, with Elvis, De Niro, Pacino et al all rearing their ugly heads though it was floaty/stingy boxer Muhammad Ali who picked up the most nods, with five managers (Redknapp, Allardyce, McLeish, Pardew and Hughton) plumping for the pugilist.

What are the odds Aguero beats Rooney to the Premier League Golden Boot? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

The form shown by Manchester's City and United this season emphasises the gulf in class between those sides with money and those without, especially when that money comes from the Gulf.

Steven Howard of the Sun reports on the new book by former England international Gary Neville, and about some of the problems behind the scenes in the England national team.
SO Gary Neville, veteran of 85 England internationals, has spoken.
And it's all as we told you at the time.

Doncaster Manager Sean O' Driscoll may be the only man save from the chop.

The Championship season got under way Friday night with Ian Holloway's Blackpool beating Hull City 1-0 the the seasons opener, but how many managers will be given their P45′s before the end of the season?

Leicester City manager Sven Goran Eriksson is ready to rescue former England midfielder Owen Hargreaves from the scrape heap following his release from Manchester United after making only one appearance for the club in over a year.

Eriksson who gave Hargreaves his first England cap in 2001 said he would welcome his former player to Leicester City having seen his fitness video's on YouTube recently.

Cissoko, Kaka, Vidal, Mata and Montolivo in today's Football Spy video

Liverpool interested in Ally Cissoko, Kaka wants to stay at Real, Sven Goran Eriksson wants Hagreaves. Villa are interested in Shay Given. Arturo Vidal and Serie's A best midfielder Riccardo Montolivo Get involved at MirrorFootball , on YouTube , on Twitter and on e-mail .

After speculation arose that Steve McClaren was hot favourite for the Aston Villa job midweek, it now seems that the former Middlesbrough boss is now out of the running after initial talks broke-down last minute with the Birmingham outfit.

Whatever led to those talks breaking down may have a worrying knock-on effect for Villa fans as McClaren may have held the key to keeping one of their star performers, Stewart Downing, at the club.

This week was the release of Fabio Cappello's England squad who over the next two weeks are set to face both Wales and Ghana, two sides who the English support as well as the British press will assume can be surpassed with a degree of ease and aplomb (but with the height of England's expectations who aren't they allowed to surpass with ease and aplomb?

Sven Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello should really be proud of themselves. Before anyone with a short memory wonders what's wrong with the opening sentence, let's get this right: as the only managers to lead a side from Rome to a Scudetto in modern times, they achieved an almost impossible goal.

Make yourself at home in Leicester, Sven is a post from: Just Football

Sven Goran Eriksson. Name ring a bell? He's currently quietly going about the business of reviving a certain East Midlands outfit. David Cockcroft reports.

Saturday 16th October 2010 was a highly anticipated date on the football calendar of a Leicester City fan.

While there were very few shocks in the FA Cup yesterday, today holds more hope that a top club may get knocked out of the illustrious tournament. On television we have Arsenal against Huddersfield, Notts County versus Manchester City and Fulham against Tottenham. Each of those games have important historic ties.

O guarda-redes Ricardo deverá ser apresentado brevemente como jogador do Leicester, actualmente no segundo escalão de Inglaterra, onde vai reencontrar dois velhos conhecidos do Euro 2004: Sven-Goran Eriksson e Darius Vassel, para além dos portugueses Miguel Vítor e Moreno. Ricardo, que estava livre desde que rescindiu com o Bétis, foi o grande responsável pela elminiação dos ingleses no Europeu disputado em Portugal quando defendeu o penalty apontado por Vassel que representava a selecção então orientada por Eriksson.

Todavia no se daba la lista oficial cuando Morelia da la primicia. En la cuenta de Twitter el equipo michoacano dio a conocer que Adrián Aldrete y Elías Hernández fueron convocados por José Manuel de la Torre,solo que el primero al final no fue llamado.

Pero la polemica no quedara ahi, en la primera convocatoria de este nuevo director tecnico se destaca el regreso de Antonio Naelson Sinha quien fue relegado del Tri cuando ni Eriksson ni Javier Aguirre lo convocaron.

Meditation's what you need
Manchester City 4-2 Leicester City (18:01:11)
I'm delighted to welcome David Bevan from The Seventy Two back to European Football Weekends. As a fan of the Foxes, he's still coming to terms with the Thai-kover at Leicester City as well as pondering a conversion to Buddhism.

Sven-Goran Eriksson's return to Eastlands turned sour as Manchester City went through to the FA Cup fourth-round.
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Manchester City 4 - 2 Leicester City
Richard Jolly at Eastlands