"If this was November, I'd probably say this is where the team should be in October," Jarvis said yesterday about his 6-5 squad.

Since the defeat at Wembley, many questions are being asked about Del Bosque's revered squad.

It is particularly risky to disparage a side that has left with a point since it raises doubts about your own squad.

The longer that briefing went on- no, the longer it didn't go on-the better I felt about my squad.

"If you're talking about Stewart's squad, you've got to be joking."

"They should write songs about our squad," Kagak said.

Half a year later, Toshack said about this season's squad that "it was the worst group of players I've seen in 20 years.

This is where this fallacy about their squad would have been completely exposed.

Heinrichs said it was too early to make predictions about her squad for the next World Cup, when the United States will defend its title.

I'll tell you some other time about Catherine's special squad of ladies, the Escadron Volant, whom she used to seduce her opponents.