Svensson hits out

Mathias Svensson has launched a stinging attack on Alan Curbishley and Alan Ball.

The Swedish marksman spent time in England with Portsmouth, Crystal Palace, Charlton, Derby and Norwich.

However, despite his time in England he seems to have been unimpressed with several of the players and managers around.

Svensson has returned to Sweden with Elfsborg after leaving Norwich, and saved his most stinging criticism for two of his old managers.

"Alan Curbishley is highly-rated in England - because people don't know what goes on in the dressing room," said Svensson of his former Charlton boss.

"He only cares about the first team and doesn't give a damn about the rest of the squad. You just get dropped and banished without a word of explanation.

"The only reason I didn't play in my last year was because I told him I wanted to miss a game against Birmingham because my wife was about to give birth.

"Curbishley doesn't give a s**t about any of his players."

Svensson also had some harsh words for the likes of Alan Ball and Harry Redknapp, with only Terry Venables coming away with any praise.

"The only good manager I had in England was Terry Venables. He brought me to Portsmouth and I really rated him.

"But a lot of the other English managers know diddly squat about football and just don't want any foreigners.

"Look at a guy like Alan Ball. When he was the manager at Pompey and gave his first team-talk all the players were just laughing at him.

"The only thing he had going for him was that he won the World Cup in 1966 as a player - and he was still living off that at the time.

"He was just one of the bad ones they have in England. Come on, just look at Harry Redknapp. Oh my God. When you see how he is regarded, it's no wonder that foreign managers dominate the Premier League."

Svensson also attacked Premiership players Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira, along with Chelsea's William Gallas.

"Patrick Vieira is a really dirty player but he doesn't have the same psychotic personality as Keane," said Svensson.

"And another psychopath is Gallas at Chelsea. We have had some really tough duels and he is really dirty."