Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948) is a Swedish football manager and former player. He was manager of the England national football team from 2001 to 2006.

Appearance on 2DTV
Eriksson is portrayed as a brainy, boss-like figure determined to create the perfect team made out of "adequately well" players including Beckham, Scholes, Seaman, Campbell and Owen, and help win another World Cup for England. These plans are almost always thwarted however.

In one sketch, he has arranged the perfect England team that will win the 2002 World Cup, in the hope that no one gets injured, but all the players are crushed by a falling chandelier. Eriksson becomes even more upset when Phil Neville arrives in the room, being still available for the roster.

In another sketch, he betrayed the team by managing foreign countries behind their backs, including the French, Brazilian and Scottish teams.

In another, he made a Frankenstein-like monster out of the body parts of England players including the head of Martin Keown. But the monster is quickly defeated by the Argentines' "Hand of God", a reference to the controversial handball by Maradona which knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup quarter-final.

He is voiced by Jon Culshaw in Series 1-3 and Lewis MacLeod in Series 4-5.