Sven-Göran Eriksson offers us new lessons in death - and life
In one sense, Sven-Göran Eriksson has led a charmed life. He has operated at the very highest level in his chosen career, he has enjoyed great success and has earned the adulation and respect of others. He has lived and loved (sometimes to a fault), and been loved by those who knew him, and worked with him. But for all his professional achievements, and the private vicissitudes, nothing in his life has become dear old Sven like the manner of his leaving it.
At the start of this year, the 76-year-old former England football manager made public the fact that he had been diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer, and that he had “best case a year” to live. He was stoic in the face of this news. “I’m going to resist as long as I can,” he said at the time, and thus began a process of coming to terms with his impending........
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