Sven’s FA sheikh-down after sting op in Dubai

ENGLAND coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has been asked to appear before the FA’s compliance unit following comments in a newspaper that chief executive Brian Barwick admitted have “not been good for the game’s image.”

The Swede insisted in the News of the World that he would not want to get involved with transfers, if he took a club job in England, because managers “put money in their pocket.”

Eriksson was asked if English managers got involved with transfers during taped meetings in Dubai with an undercover News of the World reporter - posing as a ‘fake Sheikh.’

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