Well I don't blame him for saying that. Remember that England had lost at the quaterfinals of their last 2 tournaments.

At the 2002 world cup, they lost at the quaterfinals to Brazil and Phillippe Scolari was the manager of Brazil.

At EURO 2004, England lost at the quaterfinals to Portugal and Phillippe Scolari was also the Portugal manager. Eriksson didn't want to loose to the same guy 3 times in a row. But he has now lost to Scolari 3 times.

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