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The former England coach will be among the special guests attending Wembley's first FA Cup final for six years on May 19.

Lakeside: Sven Goran Eriksson in Sweden

Eriksson has accepted an invitation - accorded to other surviving England managers - to watch the showpiece clash, and may well be grateful for the high profile as he tries to get back into football.

After all, by then it will only be 11 days before his £6,500-a-day wages from the Football Association come to an end.

Dickov blow

It seems Ousmane Dabo was not the only casualty of the now famous Manchester City training ground punch-up last week.

While others stood back in amazement as the Frenchman and Joey Barton slugged it out, striker Paul Dickov went between them to try to intervene and, according to one of the many bystanders, caught a stray right-hander for his trouble.

Arnesen's youth coach quits Bridge

The internal rumblings at Chelsea are getting more interesting by the day.

Jose Mourinho's future is the key question, but what now should we make of the latest coach to quit the club?

I hear that Ruud Kaiser, who is in charge of Chelsea's top youth team, the Under-19s, has handed in his resignation.

The Dutchman, 46, who took his country's kids to the World Youth Cup final and who is hailed as one of the best youth coaches in Europe, was signed by Frank Arnesen last year.

Arnesen promised that Kaiser would deliver top-quality players from the academy into the first-team, something Mourinho has regularly complained has not been happening.

Kaiser is returning to Holland, and it won't be long before others follow him out of Stamford Bridge.

Farewell reflected our deep respect for Ball

The magnificent farewell to Alan Ball at Winchester Cathedral reflected the respect and regard in which he was held as a man as well as a former footballer and manager.

It was superbly organised, from the tributes to the arrangements for security and media accreditation, which was handled by the Football Association's media relations department.