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The applause will fill stadiums across Europe to honour Sven-Göran Eriksson, marking a life well lived with a broad legacy in football, but for me a moment of silence 23 years ago will always resonate when England’s first overseas manager…

‘He has the soul of a vice-president.” Eugene McCarthy’s barb stuck to Walter Mondale during the US presidential race of 1984, and may have been one of the factors why Mondale never acceded to the presidency. Damned with faint praise,…