The England Retrospective, Part 6

Injuries and controversies in Sven's last hurrah.

The FA had already told us who would replace Sven-Goran Eriksson after the 2006 World Cup: Steve McClaren. We’ll get to him later. But it meant everyone, from the staff to the players to the general public, knew Eriksson’s assistant would be taking the big job soon enough. We’ll never know how much this affected the tournament, but it surely had some ki…