LONDON -- The campaign to get rid of England head coach Sven-Goran Eriksson is in overdrive following the inept, as bad as it gets 1-0 defeat in Northern Ireland on Wednesday. The English media has never been Eriksson's greatest ally, even when the national team was winning, so the first loss at Windsor Park since 1927 has seen the vitriol flowing over the past few days.
And once the hack pack get their teeth into someone they don't let go. Even if England wins the World Cup, credit will be given to the players rather than the coach. The media don't do backing down.