All eyes on Larsson as goal King Henrik holds court

IN a suite the size of your average sitting room, eight or nine Swedish players sit around tables, most ignored by the attendant press and filling in the time chatting or playing games of noughts and crosses.

The entire press posse is crammed into one corner of the room, the object of their fascination, of course, Henrik Larsson, who couldn’t look or sound more bored if he was back in school reciting multiplication tables.

If the hordes of Celtic supporters here are salivating at the thoughts of seeing him today, he doesn’t seem particularly enthused. He played in the 2-0 friendly at Lansdowne Road in 1999 as well, but claims he “can’t remember” anything about it.