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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

Sven-Göran Eriksson


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Walked past me in the tunnel in Cologne stadium while I was working on the Germany World Cup 2006. Had the shiniest shoes I've ever seen and a big smile as he passed through to the England dressing room.

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3 hours ago, DazBob said:

Didn't get the best out of a very, very good group of players but always comes across as a likeable bloke.  Top shagger too.

Think he did. They were just knobbers.

Really sad stuff. A great of European football.

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Just now, tomski said:

Think he did. They were just knobbers.

Really sad stuff. A great of European football.

Yeah I think all that united , Chelsea, Liverpool rivalry bollocks stopped that team. They have themselves to blame for wasting their talents there. Sitting separately etc is pathetic. 
 

a real shame this. Hopefully the medicine can help him extend his life and still live it relatively normal

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Great quote from Didi Hamann's autobiography:

‘One morning I was on a sun lounger by the pool when I saw Sven walking towards me carrying a silver tray with a bottle of champagne and two glasses on it. It was still only ten o’clock in the morning…Sven came over and put the champagne on the table next to me, then placed one glass in front of me and the other by his lounger. I looked up and said, ‘Boss, what are we celebrating?’…He turned to me and smiled that gentle smile of his and took on the air of a Buddhist philosopher as he said, ‘Life, Kaiser.’ Then after pausing for dramatic effect, ‘We are celebrating…life.’

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On 11/01/2024 at 12:09, Whitesince63 said:

Yes very sad news, always seemed a decent and approachable guy, let’s hope something turns up for him.

clive james said similar to sven here , but then they pulled out stem cell treatments and allsorts of other stuff and he lived for "ages" after, he even said he looked kind of foolish for sort of conducting his own wake or obiturary too early. 

 

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