Sven-Goran Eriksson, 76, reveals doctors can’t tell him how long he has left as the terminally-ill former England boss opens up on battle with pancreatic cancer

Sven-Goran Eriksson admits he doesn’t know how much time he has left because not even his doctors have the answer.

The former England manager shocked the football world in January when he announced that he had “approximately a year” to live and was battling pancreatic cancer.

And he has given his worried fans an update on his health in his column for The Telegraph.

“If you ask the doctors how much time I have left, they won’t be able to answer,” the Swede wrote. Does that worry me? I think it’s better not to know.

‘On a day-to-day basis, everything goes a little up and down. Some mornings I wake up feeling totally perfect, or close to it, and other mornings it’s a struggle. But the good days are still there and I’m fine.

‘I have traveled all over Sweden, England, Italy and Portugal and have often been brought to tears by the kindness of the people.

Normally everyone speaks well of people when they are dead. I am lucky that they speak well of me while I am alive.’

Eriksson managed England from 2001 to 2006, reaching the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and the quarter-finals of Euro 2004.

Last week she revealed that David Beckham recently paid her a memorable visit to her farm.

Eriksson, 76, was Beckham’s England manager from 2001 to 2006.

Beckham served as captain of the Three Lions during this time and the pair were said to be very close.

Their friendship has apparently continued since then, as they recently spent a day together at Eriksson’s farm.

Speaking to Swedish Radio’s P4 Varmland last week about his recent reunion with Beckham, Eriksson said: “He came with six litres of wine from dates that were important to me.

‘He had wine from 1948, the year I was born, very kind of him. He’s genuine, he could have been a great diva, but he’s the opposite.’