King Con crushed Sven's dream

NEW DOC LIFTS THE LID ON ERIKSSON BETRAYAL

- EXCLUSIVE BY JOHN CROSS

SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON recalled how a "dream was ruined" in one of his last interviews.

The former England boss recounted his bizarre seven months at Notts County in one of football's most remarkable scandals.

County, the oldest professional club in the world, became embroiled in a fraud and money-laundering scam which is being laid bare in a new Sky documentary.

King of Lies: Football's Greatest Con which airs on Sunday night follows the breathtaking story of how a con man tricked his way into buying a football club and took Eriksson to North Korea where he was asked to fix a World Cup draw.

Eriksson says in the show: "It looked too good to be true. They offered me the football club when they left the meeting.

It was a dream." It is mind-boggling in its complexity and even fooled the late Sir John Walker, the former head of military intelligence.