Sven-Goran Eriksson: Former England manager says he has cancer and 'best case a year' to live

[Colonel_Klinck]

Man cancer sucks Wasn't our best manger, certainly wasn't our worst but he did manager to score with Ulrika in her prime.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67942943

 

[Martynt74]

A real shame. My mate worked for Man City and said he had an oura around him that was out of this world, especially on nights out etc.

 

[xiphrex]

Sad news

 

[chainy]

No one seems to die of old age anymore. Always some sort of cancer or dementia. Sad news.

 

[fez]

Poor chap. Hope he suffers as little as possible.

 

[Maundie]

Saw this earlier, not great news cancer is such a nasty disease

 

[InHuman]

Such a shame to hear.

 

[Chabsy]

He has certainly lived his life to the full. Just watched an interview on sky and he seems at peace with himself.

 

[jeffk]

He has certainly lived his life to the full.

He certainly did. I doubt he’s going to the grave with many regrets. He was very… honest about why he took the Thailand national team job!

 

[cheesyboy]

Pretty terrible England manager, wasting the 'golden generation', but an all-timer as a shagger. Total legend in that respect.

 

[spudbynight]

We have better results these days but watching England under Svennis was much more fun than under Southgate

 

[dacads]

Jurgen Klopp offers with 'open arms' to make Sven-Goran Eriksson's dying Liverpool wish come true

In a poignant interview with Sky News, the 75-year-old Reds fan, who has inoperable pancreatic cancer, expressed his footballing regret of never taking the helm at Anfield.

news.sky.com

Heart warming stuff.. would be great to see

 

[HangTime]

No one seems to die of old age anymore. Always some sort of cancer or dementia. Sad news.

I guess there's a combination of factors, probably there used to be plenty of people dying of 'old age' who also had undiagnosed cancers. Plus general improvements in living conditions etc, most people these days have warm homes and food on the table so the cause of death just moves to something else. Everyone dies of something, so if you reduce the chances of dying of 'old age' other causes pick up.

There's probably some other factors like modern ways of living increasing the chances of some types of cancer too, but let's not open that can of worms.

I was neither Sven's biggest fan nor his harshest critic as England Manager, but I can thank him for at least in some small way reigniting my interest in football with the 1-5 in Germany back in 2001.