Joe Lovejoy

This is a book written by a journalist. Joe Lovejoy explains that the 'Red Tops' (English tabloid press) had so infuriated all the people from Sven,s home village that they refused to talk to him, and this shows. Sven's family is covered in a paragraph: dad was a bus driver and he was close to his mum (!).

There is no insight into the man , in this book. We get pages of, "in the 1997 season Sven's team kicked off the season with a 2-1 win against .... in the next game they played....", type reportage but little about Sven pre the England manager's job: even then, it is largely football based, with the only digression being in relation to his sexual proclivities. Sadly, I do not feel that I know the man any better for this book, which is a pity because, having cut his teeth in Italy and the England job, Sven now takes on the role to which his career has been building: he is the new manager of my beloved Leicester City!… (altro)