Sven-Goran Eriksson’s mansion ‘going up for sale for £4.8million’ after former England manager’s tragic death

SunSport's Shaun Custis and Martin Lipton discussed Sven-Goran Eriksson's England legacy following his death aged 76.

Custis: "He was the most polite, civil manager I’ve ever dealt with in my life."

Lipton: "There are many managers who are prone to paroxysms of aggravation and screaming matches.

"You can’t imagine Sven ever raising his voice, let alone having a row with someone. He was a gentle man and a gentleman throughout his dealings with us certainly. And I think that always came across from the very outset.

"He was clearly a quite calm, unflappable character and he wasn’t going to let anything perturb him no matter what it was. No matter what questions were thrown at him, no matter what stick he got. He had this veneer of utter tranquillity."

Custis: "There was a lot of mystery to him. You weren’t reading things about him every two minutes online as you would do now but he came in and he got off to a great start with that 3-0 win over Spain."

Lipton: "He just loved being around football, didn't he that was the thing.

"He didn’t want to give it up… He actually, genuinely loved being around football players, being a manager and all the trappings of that and just being important. Because he enjoyed being Sven-Goran Eriksson - football manager."

Lipton: "He brought back a belief in the England team in that period, he gave us a night we’ll never forget and oversaw the real change in the culture of English football in that it became more celebrity in many ways.

"The players became bigger than they’d ever been and he managed to keep that under a degree of wraps… He was a better manager than I thought he was at the time."