As you might expect, Sven-Goran Eriksson doesn't have any issue with the next England manager being foreign. The Telegraph report that the Manchester City boss is backing Jose Mourinho to be Steve McClaren's replacement - and no, that doesn't mean the Swede has been seen in the Ladbrokes on Deansgate handing a stack of cash across the counter. Sven is on record as saying:

"Mourinho has already shown that he is big with Porto and with Chelsea, so if he has been winning trophies for them, he can do it with England as well. The job is not that different. Once you have the players on the pitch, it is the same as being a manager at a club.

"Knowing the players as he does would be an advantage, of course. He knows all the Chelsea players and he worked with them for three years in the Premier League, so that would help him, especially in the beginning."
 
However, is the former Porto and Chelsea manager too much of a liability for the FA? This is the man who famously called Arsene Wenger a voyeur, simply because the Arsenal manager had the audacity to suggest that "a little bit of the belief had gone" after Chelsea had drawn and lost their previous two matches.
 
This is the man whom UEFA branded as the 'enemy of football' in 2005. This was after Mourinho criticised Anders Frisk's display following the Blues' 2-1 defeat by Barcelona in the Champions League, prompting the Portuguese manager to launch a verbal assault which resulted in the Swedish referee receiving death threats and ultimately retiring from his role.

This is the man who was ungracious in defeat, even by the standards of Sir Alex Ferguson. On the admittedly rare occasions Chelsea lost a match, it was always the fault of the referee, assistant referee, fourth official, the influence of the crowd, the weather but never due to the failings of his own team.
 
Now it seems a big chunk of England want him to manage the national team. But perhaps not the pocket of Liverpool fans whom he famously 'shushed' after Chelsea equalised in the 2005 Carling Cup Final. This type of behaviour eventually caused Roman Abramovich and Peter Kenyon to wash their hands of him - do the FA want someone with this sort of previous?

'This is the man whom UEFA branded as the 'enemy of football' in 2005'