Sven gave me £10k when I became lover

By Keith Gladdis

THE cleaning lady who has been romping with former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson has spilled the dirt on their bizarre fling.

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Single mum Saima Ansari told how the smitten Manchester City boss SHOWERED her with expensive gifts, HANDED her £10,000 to pay off her debts and even promised to pay her MORTGAGE on their nights of love in his five-star hotel suite.

She detailed the full depths of the Swedish smoothie's obsessiveness for "tidy sex"—neatly FOLDING his expensive clothes before bedding her and COMBING what remains of his hair between romps.

And jobless Saima revealed how the dapper 59-year-old was so worried about being rumbled romancing a humble mum on benefit he swapped his Armani for a chavlike SHELL SUIT and FLAT CAP disguise to blend in when he took her out, with her tottering along on stilettos beside him.

Speaking for the first time since the News of the World exposed their affair last month, Saimi, 38, said she was blowing the whistle because the relentless soccer love rat was cheating on her with another Manchester mum Marisa Cauchi.

"I didn't have any illusions that we would ever marry and have children but I'm not willing to be second best," she said.

Pounce

"But I fell in love with Sven. Even though he was a bit obssessive in the bedroom he's the best lover I have had by far and knows how to treat a woman."

"He offered to buy me anything, even a new car. I had debts more than £10,000 and he paid them off—just like that! He was a real gentleman."

Divorcee Saima revealed she first met Eriksson while he was STILL England boss 18 months ago. The Lancashire lass—who has had jobs as a cleaner and warehouse worker—spotted him in the trendy River Bar of the plush Lowry Hotel in Manchester—and knew in minutes she'd pulled.

"I went up to him and asked if I could have my picture taken with him. When we were posing he pulled me very close to him and I thought ‘eh-up!'

"He did it in a way that I knew there was something more."

So when the multi-millionaire Swede became boss of local club Manchester City in May, Saima was ready to pounce. She made sure she was at the River Bar when he was there with the City team one night.

"The first time I'd laid eyes on him I promised myself he would be in my life. I knew where he was staying. When a woman wants something she knows how to get it," said Saima.

Randy Eriksson soon spotted her. "It was quite funny because he just kept looking. I was wearing a sexy black skirt and Chanel jewellery. There was no way he was going to deny me.

"I went up to him and reminded him of the photo. I just asked him straight out for his number. He said ‘no, but I will take yours'."

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The next day he rang her at 8am to invite her for BREAKFAST in his £1,500-a-night penthouse at the Lowry.

It was the start of a fling based entirely in his suite—with Saimi turning up for sex whenever he had a spare few hours hour in his diary—but never staying the night.

"I would visit for say around three or four hours on an afternoon sometimes less if it was in the evening," said Saima.

"The bed would always be neatly made when I arrived—with a towel and bathrobe laid out for me." She already knew of Sven's prowess in the bedroom after the revelations of former lovers Faria Alam and Ulrika Jonsson.

And she says: "He did not disappoint in that department. I was fulfilled and he was incredibly tender." But he could also be incredibly irritating and tedious.

"He would always fold his clothes perfectly before sex and carefully prepare the sheets on the bed," she said.

"Everything he did was predictable every time. I would often try to inject some fun into things. "I remember doing a dance around the bed in my bathrobe to make him laugh. Another time I pulled my hair across my face and said ‘come and get me'.

Combed

"Although he would laugh it felt like the fun would always come from me. But that was Sven."

His constant grooming, however, soon began to wear Saima down. "His hairbrush is placed neatly over a little flannel and everything is so neatly laid out.

"Sven would constantly go to the bathroom to check his appearance. Even after sex. He even combed his hair before he opened the door to let me out of the room when it was time for me to go.

"He would even clean up after me all the time," added the ex-cleaner. One day when Manchester City had won three consecutive matches I went round with some chocolates and three red roses for each match. "But he couldn't find a vase, he was panicking and he had to call housekeeping.

"Even when we opened the chocolates he had to quickly dispose of the rubbish he couldn't just keep the wrappers on the table."

But what she never found tedious about Eriksson was his generosity. The coach—who made £25 million as England boss—showered the mum on income and housing benefit with gifts including a pair of £300 Dior shoes, a £200 fake fur coat and a £2,995 Christian Dior watch.

"Early in the relationship I was looking through a magazine and saw some Dior shoes," she said. "I said they were gorgeous and he insisted on giving me the money to buy them."

But it was when Sven wrote a £10,000 cheque to clear her debts that Saima was bowled over. There was more to come when he offered to pay the mortgage on her two-bedroomed city flat.

"I once told him I would have to move out of Manchester because I couldn't afford to live in the city any more.

"He said, ‘don't go, I don't want you to move because you are close to me here. I will pay for your mortgage every month'. I said, ‘all right you've got a deal'."

Eriksson insisted their affair should remain secret and based in the hotel—but Saima kept badgering him to take her out.

Disguised

"I wanted to do normal things like go to the cinema. But he said he hadn't been to the cinema in more than ten years.

"We once went for a walk but Sven insisted on wearing a disguise and we didn't venture very far.

"We must have looked a sight. I was there in my high heels and Sven had disguised himself in a navy shell suit and pulled cloth granddad style cap over his head. It did get frustrating."

Once she persuaded him to take her out for a meal at her favourite Indian restaurant—but all it did was show the gulf in class between them.

Eriksson is used to fine dining and eating in Indians such as Faria Alam's favourite the Yatra in London's Mayfair where a single Tiger Prawn dish costs £17.

At Rochdale's Asia restaurant Saima convinced Sven to eat a £4 plate of lamb chops followed by a £7 chicken balti. He washed it down with a large £3 glass of house red. Saima said: "It was the one time I had convinced Sven to leave the hotel. We arrived separately.

"He was dropped off in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes and I parked my Peugeot nearby. I know the owner and had asked for a private table but we were still worried that we might have been seen.

"We were only there for a couple of hours before heading back to the hotel."

Often she had to be content with massaging his head while he watched football in his penthouse.

"Before a match I would take a bottle of oil and he would sit there watching and I would massage his scalp," she said.

"He would always say ‘I have never had anyone treat me this well'. I would massage his hands and tell him he was my ‘poor baby'.

"He always said no one had ever treated him to a massage, not even Nancy. He said European women receive massages, they don't give them.

"I remember he was watching Manchester United and Chelsea on the television when I was massaging him. When there was a goal he almost jumped out of his skin." At other times she would feed him cheese and crackers as he watched Match of the Day in his bathrobe.

But their secret love hit the rocks when it was revealed the Swede had been linked to Marisa Cauchi, 33, the estranged wife of the owner of Salford Skip Hire.

Saima said: "Since news of Marisa came out I haven't seen Sven. He has phoned me to talk about it and he insists there is no truth in it.

"When the man you adore tells you something you want to believe it. I don't care what other people might think."

Last week Saima moved into a new four bedroomed home with her two children.

She admits people have questioned how she can afford her lifestyle.

"People think I should live in rags—but they can think what they like. I have worked hard for what I have.," she said

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"While I was with Sven I was on cloud nine. It has been the most beautiful time I have experienced. I did love him, and I still do."

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