Seagulls rear their heads again

FA executive director David Davies is supposed to have described Sven Goran Erikkson as having a 'roving eye', and to have compared Sven to a seagull – 'who wraps his wings around people'.

This is not the first time that seagulls have been used as a metaphor in a football context. Eric Cantona famously said: "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown in to the sea".