Framed! Sven Goran Eriksson

As usual I get a call from Optician's features editor Rob Moss chasing up my monthly column. With the activity surrounding the England team at the moment (not to mention its manager's infamous libido) and the recent World Cup qualifiers, I decided the time was right for me to write about Sven Goran Eriksson's spectacles.

In fact, I feel like I've waited years for this and when I was first asked to write this column, he was top of my list.

So with deadline fast approaching it was easy for me to put pen to paper and vent my feelings on the Swede's rimless specs.

The words flew from my fingers as I wrote about the terrible shape, the fact that he's not changed his look in five years and the reflection that this had on his current and rather shaky popularity (women aside).

I finished with some good advice for the silver-haired coach on what to do with his eye furniture.

Saturday came and true to many an Englishman I was ready on the sofa with a few beers, and a 4pm kick off for match of the day.

Actually, the game was terrible and I dropped off after a gruelling week into a light afternoon doze.

Suddenly I was awoken with a roar from the crowd, Beckham was sent off and the camera moved in for a close-up of Sven's face - the look of worry, the grimace, the new spectacles!

Gone are the plastic ultra-light rimless from Vision Express, gone too are the large oval rim shapes which made him look like an albino panda and behold, a sleek, well-cut rectangular shape.

It was a perfectly selected shade of titanium blue and if I'm not mistaken, it's all mounted on the classic Silhouette mount which has never looked so good in all its life.

I was awake in seconds, my column! Stop press (I've always wanted to say that), I've been waiting for the moment I could either design Sven a frame or at least just help him into a better one.

Someone has beaten me to it and although I've often thought the classic Silhouette has had its day, I've never seen it look so sleek.

The frame has undoubtedly been customised, clean, simple and perfectly tailored, I wanted to mention to Rob Moss that I'd like to see more opticians making bespoke eye shapes on rimless.

Now all we have to do is see if Sven has as much longevity as his bins.