A used car salesman pretending to be Wenger

Bo Lundqvist, chairman of SEF (no, I'm not going to tell you what that stands for) and of Animal Farm FC IF FF AB Inc threatens to keep his players home from future Mickey Mouse-tournaments with the national team, like the one in Saudi Arabia. The reason being that it might disrupt his team's preparations for another Mickey Mouse-tournament - the Royal League. Well isn't that special. Since everyone knows that these tournaments are the only way to get into the national team squad for players without international experience, I would be surprised if his players think this is a good idea. Tobias Hysén, for instance, had his shot to get a all expenses paid Germany trip this past week. It doesn't sound like he took his chance. It remains to be seen who will make the squad for the Ireland friendly later this year. According to our media "experts" (and I use that term as loosely as is possible) Karl Svensson of Blowit might be a surprise addition, but we have no way of telling if this merely is yet another campaign to create a story. This is usually the case ahead of big tournaments, for Euro 2000 it was Johan Elmander, WC 2002 Kim Källström and for Euro 2004 it was all about the return of The Larsson.
Bo Lundqvist, incidentally, was given the title "hero" in a tabloid this week after announcing that his club would spend millions of kronor on preventing adolescents from joining Animal Farm's hooligan firm and demanded that both AIK and Hammarby would do exactly the same thing. It turned out that the program consisted of starting a café. We'll see how that develops.
It would be interesting to know if any Swedish tabloid will try to follow The Sun's suit and buy themselves some "exclusive" riots in Germany or if they'll just pony up whatever The Sun is demanding and buy the rights for Swedish publication. It's a wonderful world.