Sven Comes to Town Wednesday, 10th Jan 2001 10:25
Sven-Goran Eriksson looks likely to visit Portman Road on Sunday for the Sky game with Leicester City on Sunday. Eriksson resigned from Lazio yesterday and is to start assessing English players immediately.
He is set to take in another Premiership game on Saturday before making a return trip to Portman Road, a ground well-known to him from the seventies. When he was an aspiring manager at IFK Gothenburg the Swede made regular trips to watch Bobby Robson s Town play and train and once even sat on the bench for a match.
The Town players Eriksson will presumably be most interested in are Richard Wright and goal-a-game striker Marcus Stewart. Last season fans were calling for James Scowcroft to get an England shout, while this year Jamie Clapham has been linked with a call-up. In the long-term Eriksson might be interested in Titus Bramble, a player becoming a regular in the U21s.