Word on the street is that Swedish shagger/softly spoken football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson may be coaching the North Korean football team for next summer’s World Cup.  What?  I thought the only sport in the DPRK was mass gymnastics.  Read more after the jump.

According to the Guardian:

Trembling, the Notts County executive chairman, is understood to have been involved in talks with intermediaries representing the Football Association of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Those negotiations were with a view to securing the Meadow Lane director of football’s services on loan.

The process is now advanced enough for Trembling and Eriksson to be travelling to Beijing later this week on an eight-day trip.

…A source close to the deal confirmed that the trip to east Asia is going ahead and did not deny that Eriksson’s stewardship of the world’s 90th-ranked team was under discussion. North Korea’s embassy in London suggested there might be an announcement in “two or three weeks”.

Ok.  Joking aside, what happens if/when Eriksson screws up?  Man, Kim Jong Il would be so pissed.  Where my tlophy roundeye?! Sven would be explaining himself so quietly only bats will be able to hear him.  And has he no conscience?  If the team lose, which they will most likely, they will in all probability be shipped to a frigging labour camp or be executed.  Shit what a depressing situation.  Still, job’s a job eh Sven?