AOB: Sven tells it like it is

I've been a fan of Sven-Goran Eriksson since he was manager of Sampdoria. As a little lad I remember being glued to Football Italia as he took a team containing Gullit, Mancini, Lombardo, and, er, David Platt, to the summit of Serie A, albeit without actually winning anything of consequence.

Laterly my admiration for Svennis has become based less on his managerial ability, and more on his knack for making vast amounts of cash for doing very little work. Witness the mahousive pay offs he's picked up in recent years after mediocre showings with England, Man City, and Mexico. The man's a genius.

He's on to another good thing now, having taken up the role of director of football at Notts County. What can there possibly be for a DoF to do at a League Two club? I assume he mostly fills his days wooing the club's female employees and going for cups of tea at Tord Grip's house. But this week he managed to come up with my favourite football quote of recent times. Asked about the mysterious way in which County are being financed, he replied;

"No, I don't know where the money comes from (...) I'm not interested in that. The important thing is that the money comes."

There we have it ladies and gentleman, modern football accurately summed up in one sentence. Keep up the good work Sven.