Sven-Goran Eriksson: former England manager diagnosed with terminal cancer and told he has 'one year to live'

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has been told by doctors that he has one year to live.

The manager, who led the national team from 2001 to 2006, told a Swedish radio station P1 that he has "at best a year to live", adding: "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."

The 75-year-old Swede said that he has been fit and healthy, running five kilometres a day before he "collapsed and fainted" and was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with cancer. He said: "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."

Eriksson 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.