FORMER England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson is fed up with being branded a failure, according to UEFA president and fellow Swede Lennart Johansson.
The criticism was enough for Eriksson to pull out of the FIFA international football symposium in Berlin, where he was due to have been a guest speaker.
"He has had enough. He thinks people have being saying what a s--- he is and how incompetent he is, and that, just because England have now won a match, people are saying how bad he was," said Johansson.
"He has his money and will still try to have his pride, instead of standing here in Berlin with nobody listening to him because he failed to bring the World Cup to England."
Eriksson was England boss for five years, a reign that ended in disappointment in July when his side was knocked out of the World Cup at the quarter-final stage by Portugal.
It was a familiar ending for Eriksson and England in major tournaments, after it lost to Brazil in the last eight of the 2002 World Cup and to Portugal at the same stage of Euro 2004.
The 58-year-old was widely castigated after earning a reported £25 million ($62 million) during his tenure.
Johansson added that Eriksson, long a target for the English tabloid press, had also endured too many invasions of privacy.
"I don't defend him, and there are things he did he should have avoided, but I can understand that he had had enough.
"He has tried to adapt to the style where you hunt people all through the night but he has had enough."
Eriksson had been invited to be among the VIP speakers alongside World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi and France's Raymond Domenech, but pulled out at the weekend.
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Fred Goldstone
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Of course he is a failure.
He was completely devoid of any tactical ability at the WC.
With all the preparation time he had he never managed to get the four best mid-fielders in England to play together effectively.
He did have unfortunate injury problems just before and during the finals but so did alot of other teams.
His choice of strikers left a lot to be desired.
He also failed to prepare his team for a penalty shoot-out.
He was completely devoid of any tactical ability at the WC.
With all the preparation time he had he never managed to get the four best mid-fielders in England to play together effectively.
He did have unfortunate injury problems just before and during the finals but so did alot of other teams.
His choice of strikers left a lot to be desired.
He also failed to prepare his team for a penalty shoot-out.
yeh worry about ur own team .. im worry they cant even qualified for euro 08LFTWNG11 wrote:pffft whoever there coach is... England dnt have the nause to win anything, and I can pretty much guarentee they won't win anything for another 40 years
The sooner Lampard is out of the midfield, the better they will be tho...
ah so who won the last world cup?ronaldo07 wrote:yeh worry about ur own team .. im worry they cant even qualified for euro 08LFTWNG11 wrote:pffft whoever there coach is... England dnt have the nause to win anything, and I can pretty much guarentee they won't win anything for another 40 years
The sooner Lampard is out of the midfield, the better they will be tho...
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