Sven-Göran Eriksson, the former England manager, has died, drawing tributes from the world of football and beyond
The game Englishmen will recall Sven most fondly for is, of course, Germany 1-5 England in September 2001, a World Cup qualifier. The German team England faced in Munich had themselves been through a state of panic after a poor Euro 2000. When national manager Erich Ribbeck was sacked, the coming force in German football was Leverkusen’s Christoph Daum, but a personal scandal meant the job stayed vacant and Rudi Völler was the replacement drafted in.
A sad, strange coincidence is that Daum himself died from cancer at the weekend just gone. Völler, the stand-in who stayed on, took Germany to the 2002 World Cup final. England, of course, lost to eventual winners Brazil in the quarter-finals but they would always have Munich, Michael Owen’s hat-trick and Emile Heskey celebrating on the wheels of steel. Germany: Kahn, Worns , Böhme, Linke, Nowotny, Hamann, Rehmer, Ballack, Jancker, Deisler, Neuville .
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