I think it's evident now we were in Lisbon yesterday, speaking to Luiz Felipe Scolari as part of our ongoing process of recruiting the next England senior national coach for this autumn, and that process continues at pace.

If and when we qualify, we would go into the World Cup as one of the teams that can win it.

I expect him to be with us until the European Championship of 2008. He enjoys the job and we enjoy having him. There is a bigger picture; we are not naive, but we are dealing with having Sven on board for some time to come.

I like him as a man and I think he's proved with his competitive record that he's an extremely good England coach and I get on will with him personally.

Sven's contract goes through to 2008 and that's what we're working to,

We are clearly giving some serious consideration to putting together a bid for the tournament.