'I've got thick skin' Sven-Goran Eriksson isn't bothered by Ulrika Jonsson's comments
SVEN-Goran Eriksson has hit back at Ulrika Jonsson's latest comments regarding the fact that he is boring in bed.
The 65-year-old Swedish football manager appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to promote his new autobiography, and presenter Susannah Reid couldn't help but mention Jonsson's claims.
"I''ve got a thick skin," Eriksson said when asked if he found her comments hurtful. "The only thing is you have to prepare your family, your parents, your brother, your children and tell them not to read it. And if they read it, not to believe it," he added.
"If you write a book, which I did, put it straight - how it happened, what happened," he continued. "My opinion, my truth. Because a lot of things have been written about me, and most of it is not right."
Eriksson was then told that if he stuck to writing about just football, then people such as Jonsson wouldn't come forward with such personal claims - but the former England manager brushed the statment off.
"That's their problem, it's not my problem," he said. "I put it straight, how it happened, because, before I die, I wanted to do that."
"This is what happened, if it's right, if it was wrong, that's another question, but this is what happened."
Jonsson's comments came after Eriksson touched upon their affair in the book, and said that his partner at the time, Nancy Dell'Olio, saw her as nothing more than a prostitute.
"Sex with Sven was as ordered and functional as an Ikea instruction manual. It was devoid of passion," Jonsson said in response.
"Putting together a Billy bookcase would probably have left me more satisfied.
"He had all this power and money, yet he is, without a doubt, the weakest man I've met in my entire life," she added.
The pair had a four-month affair that began in January 2002.