[Ammi]

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed he has terminal cancer.

Eriksson, 75, told a Swedish radio station he has "at best a year to live".

"Everyone understands that I have an illness that is not good. Everyone guesses it's cancer and it is. But I have to fight as long as I can," he told P1.

When asked about the condition, the Swedish native said he has "maybe at best a year, at worst even less, or in the best case I suppose even longer", adding doctors "can't put a day on it"

He was running five kilometres the day before he went to hospital, he said, before he "collapsed and fainted" and it "turned out that I had cancer".
It "just came from nothing", he added, and that "makes you shocked".

"I'm not in any major pain. But I've been diagnosed with a disease that you can slow down but you cannot operate. So it is what it is," he added.

"It's better not to think about it. You have to trick your brain. I could go around thinking about that all the time and sit at home and be miserable and think I'm unlucky and so on.

"It's easy to end up in that position. But no, see the positive sides of things and don't bury yourself in setbacks, because this is the biggest setback of them all of course."


https://news.sky.com/story/sven-gora...-live-13045907

[bitontheslide]

he was one of the most iconic england managers

[AnnieK]

Awful disease

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

he was one of the most iconic england managers

I agree with you, as a fanbase we never appreciated what he achieved with England.

And I feel sorry for anybody suffering with Cancer, I would never wish for it on anyone.

I seriously hope that one day there'll be a cure for Cancer.