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23rd February 2022
07:06pm GMT

"They said: 'We want to have a simple draw.' They wanted to have help with the draw.
"Of course, I said: 'Do you really mean what I [think]? I can’t do that. Nobody can do that. That’s absolutely impossible and it’s criminal, even to try.'
"But they never believed me. The amazing thing is that it looked like they don’t believe that I can't do it – they believed that I just didn't want to do it. Very strange. That was, I guess, the main reason why I was invited and why it was so important that I went there."
https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/1495669619776004098
The 74-year-old - who was named as director of football at Notts County in 2009 following the takeover by Munto Finance - discussed his doubts over the takeover.
The aforementioned takeover left the Magpies on the verge of extinction before it was eventually sold.
"One day they came to me and said, 'You have to please come to North Korea with us. It’s important.' I said, 'No, I don’t want to go to North Korea'," added Eriksson.
"I knew a person working for the Government in England. I asked that person, 'Should I go to North Korea?'. She said, 'Absolutely not, Sven, you should not go there.'
"Russell came back to me and said, 'Sven, you have to come. It’s extremely important to the football club.' So I felt… should I really go? I didn’t want to go, but it was important for the football club, they said."
North Korea lost all of their Group G matches at the 2010 World Cup, suffering defeat to Brazil, Portugal and Ivory Coast.
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