Eriksson leaves Leicester manager's hotseat

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has left his position as Leicester manager by "mutual agreement", the Championship club confirmed in a statement on their website on Monday. The 63-year-old had held talks with the club's Thai owners on Monday after Saturday's 3-0 home defeat to Millwall left them 13th in the table, albeit only two points outside the play-off places. However, the Thai owners are unhappy that after spending £10 million on new players during the close season -- a sizeable amount by Championship standards -- that the results have not been better. Eriksson only signed a two-year contract in October last year after unsuccessful spells, since leaving the England job, with Mexico and then at Notts County -- then in League Two -- whose owners failed to deliver the millions they had promised him to pay for new players.