WE LIKE SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON

Welcome Sven to the head of Ivory Coast National Team. We like you because you're a fantastic coach. And you know how to party.

Sven used to date the classy Nancy Dell'Olio .

Aged 18, she studied law at University of ROMA. At the age of 21, Dell'Olio was hit by a car and spent several weeks in hospital. On graduation she was sent to study at New York University (NYU) by the Rome based legal company she worked for.

On her return to Italy in 1990, she met and married 50-year-old successful lawyer Giancarlo Mazza, and set up her own legal practice specialising in high-end property deals. Mazza bought her a Benetti yacht Nancy1.

An investor in S.S. Lazio, in May 1998 Mazza introduced her to his friend Sven-Goran Eriksson, the manager of Lazio football team. They began an affair six months later after a lunch. After a further six months, Eriksson was disappointed at Dell'Olio not telling her husband, and so approached Mazza to tell him about the affair.

In 2001, Eriksson was offered £4 million a year to manage the England team, so he and Dell'Olio relocated to Regents Park, London.

In early 2002, Eriksson had a short-lived affair with British-based Swedish television presenter Ulrika Jonsson, which was revealed by the Piers Morgan edited Daily Mirror.

The event caused a tabloid frenzy as this was the year of the 2002 World Cup, but Eriksson returned to Dell'Olio. At a pre-World Cup Downing Street reception hosted by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Dell'Olio turned up in a defiant red trouser suit, which dominated the following day's tabloid newspapers.

Jonsson subsequently suggested in her autobiography that Dell'Olio had a hold on Eriksson through knowledge of a secret, which is why he returned to Dell'Olio.

In August 2004, it was revealed that Eriksson and his boss Mark Palios had both had affairs with FA secretary Faria Alam. The Mail on Sunday and News of the World published interviews with Alam where she was questioned about sex with Eriksson and Palios in "graphic detail", and also mentioned a relationship with Indian actor Salman Khan (which he firmly denied). Alam was paid £200,000 for each interview.Dell'Olio was upset, and subsequently slapped Eriksson after the tabloid revelations, but chose to stay with Eriksson.

The couple eventually split in August 2007, after Eriksson had taken the job with Manchester City F.C..

It had been rumoured in January 2009 that Dell'Olio had been approached by Channel 4 to appear in Celebrity Big Brother 2009 alongside Ulrika Jonsson with whom Eriksson had a sexual relationship with despite still being together with Dell'Olio.

Talking about Ulrika Jonsson, she has previously been linked to well-known public personalities such as Prince Edward and Vic Reeves.

In 1990 she married TV cameraman Johnny Turnbull, but a few years later had an affair with Gladiators cameraman Phil Piotrowsky. She got back together with Turnbull, and they had a son, Cameron in 1994; however they divorced in 1995. She later had a relationship with James Crossley, better known as Gladiator Hunter.

She spent many days on tabloid front pages in 1998, after it was revealed she was the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her then boyfriend, footballer Stan Collymore. Jonsson later took out an injunction preventing Collymore from releasing a sex tape involving the two, apparently made while they were on holiday in Cyprus - the video was later destroyed by Collymore. Jonsson's next relationship was with German hotel boss Markus Kempen. Their daughter Bo Eva Coeur Jonsson was born in November 2000.