The English FA's chief executive Adam Crozier will fly to Italy tomorrow for talks with Lazio coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, according to reports in Italy. Swede Eriksson is believed to be one of the three names on the FA's hit-list to become the new England coach, along with Arsene Wenger and Roy Hodgson. His contract with Italian champions Lazio expires at the end of the current season.

Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport reported that Crozier will arrive in Rome to hold initial talks about the prospect of Eriksson taking over at the end of the Serie A campaign.

Meanwhile former Italy coach Arrigo Sacchi yesterday threw his hat into the ring to take over the hot-seat vacated by Kevin Keegan after the defeat by Germany on October 7th. Sacchi, who coached the Azzurri to the World Cup final in 1994 and is currently without a club, said: "I would be very happy to be in charge of a great national team like England."

His name has not yet been seriously mentioned in connection with the England job, but, like Eriksson, Wenger and Hodgson, he possesses an impressive CV and perhaps crucially to the English style of play, he is an advocate of - and has been successful in using - the 4-4-2 system.

Meanwhile, Hodgson said yesterday that the English FA had not contacted him. "I have not been asked about it. I have got no idea," Hogdson said.

Hodgson (53) declined to answer what he called "a hypothetical question" about whether he would be interested were the FA to sound him out. "There's no need to (answer that)."