# Shut the fuck up about Sven and Ulrika **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 24, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424 "2002-04-24T19:53:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/21 "2002-04-24T23:56:22Z")
The British press still worries about that sort of thing? How quaint! ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/22 "2002-04-24T23:58:09Z")
aaargh! preview preview preview!And I thought I’d be the first… ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/23 "2002-04-25T00:23:50Z")
I think the whole unsavoury tone of the reporting of this liaison has been sadly misguided and sorely lacking in correct _moeurs_. The Press should confine their interest in the England Manager to his tactical awareness and skill in outwitting the competition. For example, if he is seeing Ulrike this Friday at, say, 7:30pm (BST) aand he makes sure that he doesn’t arrange to see Nancy (his Current Squeeze) at the same time on Friday, which is also 7:30pm (BST), then I would argue that his juggling of two valuable but conflicting resources has been successful in its outcome, subject to him being invited in for ‘coffee’ afterwards, of course. That should be the only requirement of an England Football Supremo, only normally there would be eleven to worry about of course. (So two should be a piece of cake, really.) ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/24 "2002-04-25T00:29:41Z")
Sven Goran Ericksson and Ulrika Johnson. it is headline news. I fucking hate the British Tabloid press. fucking muck slinging disinformation despots. their White Van man In-Ger-Land mentality fucking does my head in. These people don’t give a fuck who’s lives they distroy just so they can sell another paper. Satan’s scaley pecker is awaiting these vultures. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/25 "2002-04-25T01:29:57Z")
But, **TwistofFate** - I worry about which would win, in a fight between a pecker and a vulture! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/26 "2002-04-25T02:34:37Z")
That’s the type of news that sells papers and commercial space on TV? When nobody gives a rat’s ass? I don’t get it. Now, if they were touting partially clad photos of Nigella Lawson… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/27 "2002-04-25T07:53:11Z")
Eriksson did Ulrika Johnson? _Duuuuude_… nice goin’! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/28 "2002-04-25T12:20:04Z")
A Swedish newspaper had a poll in Sven Göran Eriksson’s home town about it the other day and everyone asked said something like “It’s nobody’s effing business but their own”. I couldn’t agree more. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/29 "2002-04-25T12:49:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lobley \* > \*\*Ulrika … is from Sweden (I am not sure if she was born there or just has swedish parents. > > p.s. I am not quite sure if it is sweden that they are from. I know it’s one of those north european countries.\*\* Sounds like you _do_ need to do a bit of reading then? The tabloids are, of course, total shite. That’s why I don’t read 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/30 "2002-04-25T12:55:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lobley \* > \*\* > She is from Sweden (I am not sure if she was born there or just has swedish parents. > \*\* She was born in Sweden all right, but moved to Englad at the age of thirteen, when her mother married an Englishman. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/31 "2002-04-25T17:11:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*Sven Goran Ericksson and Ulrika Johnson. > > it is headline news. > > I fucking hate the British Tabloid press. fucking muck slinging disinformation despots. their White Van man In-Ger-Land mentality fucking does my head in. These people don’t give a fuck who’s lives they distroy just so they can sell another paper. > > Satan’s scaley pecker is awaiting these vultures. \*\* Unfortunately it has been all over the Irish papers as well. Now that is very fucking sad. > [@](#): > > By Coldfire > Eriksson did Ulrika Johnson? > > Duuuuude… nice goin’! Indeed. I’m quite jealous. ---
**Author:** ![kuroashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@kuroashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuroashi)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/32 "2002-04-26T06:45:09Z")
Jeez, I thought everybody knew about Sven and Ulrika! They’re even on the front pages here in Sapporo, Japan. No, not really. Sven will be coming to this little city in a month or so to face Argentina in a World Cup match, and I wish England the best of luck. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424/33 "2002-04-26T18:04:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\*Indeed. I’m quite jealous. \*\* You ain’t the only one, brother. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-about-sven-and-ulrika/105424.md?page=1)