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Didn't know where to post this in the football forums so made a thread.

A good man

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GarethSouthgate said:
Perhaps in terms of football, but other than that, didn't he cheat on his partner?
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We don't know him or the resolution of that. Life is a journey, we tumble, fumble and all sorts to varying degrees. I choose to believe in learning from such and moving forward. He's outwardly approaching the end with incredible humanity and something to be appreciated IMO :)
 
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shipinabottle said:
What an incredible human :)
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My mate worked for City when Sven was in charge. Said the general atmosphere was incredible and team nights out were always entertaining. Some of the things he said about Svens charisma was unreal.

blairw said:
Poor guy, pancreatic cancer is a death sentence and a horrible way to go.
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Yeah, my father in law died of it. Horrible disease. Crazy how once you personally know someone who's had it, you notice it everywhere. Felt like there was a time all the tv soaps were running it in story lines.
 
It's times like this when you look back and think the way people in football (and life more generally tbh) treat each-other should be a lot kinder throughout.
 
shipinabottle said:
We don't know him or the resolution of that. Life is a journey, we tumble, fumble and all sorts to varying degrees. I choose to believe in learning from such and moving forward. He's outwardly approaching the end with incredible humanity and something to be appreciated IMO :)
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Fair enough, I guess we have different thoughts about what incredible humans are.
 
GarethSouthgate said:
Fair enough, I guess we have different thoughts about what incredible humans are.
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Appreciate that bud...Last two cents for what it's worth... however I think if our lives needs to be spotless to be deemed incredible then we're setting people up with unrealistic pedestal expectations and associated fears of failure - 'never being good enough'.

Everyone has their shadows, ignoring they exist or repeated shaming of them is unhealthy on all levels.

Be accountable, especially in the inevitability of mistakes, learn, make reparations, live better within our sphere.

Naturally there's a scale, from nicking penny chews, to adultery and onto to the truly abominable acts.

Happy to leave it there or chat outside if appreciated :)
 
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We have been more successful under Southgate but I would swap watching Sven's England over Southgate's without hesitation.

We didn't win anything but it was a fun ride.
 
He was referred to as some by Sven Borin' Eriksson at the time, there were some highs like the 1-5 vs Germany (which to be fair reignited my interest in football, I'd kind of drifted away from it whilst at uni) and Rooney at Euro2004 but by and large I think most of the excitement was down to the golden generation rather than the manager.
I'd rather watch the England team from 20 years ago under Southgate than the current team .
 
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