"No, Sven. My Joker impression is much better than yours."
One of this season’s strangest moments came when we realised that both Steve McClaren and Sven-Goran Eriksson would be lining up against each other as club managers. Not in the glorious cauldron of the much-hyped Premier League or even on exotic shores (like Germany) but in the nPower Championship, titans of the managerial world flipping each other off across twenty-two other teams which all shared the same ambition. Get promoted and, for god’s sake, don’t bring in Billy Davies as your manager.
Much has been made over the last few days about Eriksson’s managerial ability, with many claiming that his inexperience at a lower level counted against him as he tried to launch big-spending Leicester into the automatic promotion spots. Indeed, there isn’t much to argue about that, Eriksson has no experience of trying to bring a club up from a lower league, unless you count his work with Degerfors IF in the late seventies which, quite frankly, you shouldn’t.
