One incident, however, that was not included in the English, Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Danish versions but did make it into the Norwegian one was the night when he was found naked on the sofa with a married woman.
Norwegian readers are told about a night out with a former IFK Gothenburg player, Glenn Schiller, which ended, for [Sven-Goran] Eriksson, in an apartment with one of Schiller's female friends. Well, it did not quite end there, as it turned out.
"We soon found ourselves naked on the sofa," Eriksson explains in the Norwegian version. "She had not said anything about being married but suddenly the door opened and there was a big man: 'Who the hell are you?' he said. I said: 'I think it is probably best if I leave,' and he replied: 'I think it probably is.'"
Eriksson was forced to leave the flat without jacket, wallet, mobile phone or shoes. Luckily, he found a pair of basketball shoes, size 46, in the stairwell. "I normally, like Maradona, wear shoes the size of 39 but what choice did I have? I had to borrow them," Eriksson writes. "What would have happened if a photographer had seen me, walking around in just a shirt with basketball shoes seven sizes too big? That would probably have created a few headlines."
As it happened, Eriksson did not bump into any photographers. He did, however, turn up at the wrong hotel, where he was let in by the hotel staff as they recognised him. "I later met Glenn [Schiller] again," he said. "He knew the woman and made sure I got my jacket and wallet back. I think he returned the basketball shoes as well."