On this day in 2008: Sven Goran-Eriksson 出発／死s Manchester City
Sven-Goran Eriksson 出発／死d Manchester City on this day in 2008 after just one season as 経営者／支配人.
Thousands of City fans had 調印するd a 嘆願（書） in support of Eriksson, who had been 任命するd by Thaksin Shinawatra on a three-year 取引，協定 days after the 議論の的になる Thai 実業家 and 政治家，政治屋 bought the club in July 2007.
But it did not save Eriksson, who had guided City to a ninth-placed finish in the 首相 League in his first 職業 since leaving his 地位，任命する as England boss a year earlier.
Shinawatra had 発表するd in April that Eriksson would be 取って代わるd in the summer 予定 to “an 雪崩／（抗議などの）殺到 of poor results” and his 決定／判定勝ち（する） 証明するd 人気がない with both City’s players and fans.
City had made an impressive start to the 2007-08 season after 投資するing in the likes of Elano, ツバメ Petrov, Vedran Corluka and Javier Garrido and victory over 競争相手s Manchester 部隊d in the third game sent them 最高の，を越す of the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する.
They remained in the 最高の，を越す six for the 残り／休憩（する） of 2007, but fortunes turned in the new year and Eriksson’s 味方する began to slip 負かす／撃墜する the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する ? にもかかわらず a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford in February, which 調印（する）d their first league 二塁打 over 部隊d since the 1969-70 season.
City travelled to Middlesbrough on the final day of the season, with fans hanging “SOS ? Save our Sven” 旗s in the away end at the Riverside, but the day ended in humiliation as City 苦しむd an 8-1 敗北・負かす, having had Richard Dunne sent off in the 15th minute.
Many （人命などを）奪う，主張するd City’s players were 効果的に on strike in 抗議する against Eriksson’s 出口, but the result was never going to help his 原因（となる） にもかかわらず City qualifying for Europe, albeit 経由で the UEFA Fair Play League.
Three weeks later, Eriksson’s 出口 was 確認するd and he was 発表するd as Mexico’s new 長，率いる coach just 24 hours later.
City 発表するd 示す Hughes as Eriksson’s 交替／補充 on June 4 and later that summer Shinawatra sold the club to Sheikh Mansour 貯蔵所 Zayed Al Nahy an.
