it is encouraging to hear that men of great ability themselves think that we have talent in our ranks.

Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

Definitely not. He's got great talent. He shows a lot of flashes of ability when he's on the field. I look forward to when he's out there knowing everything he's supposed to do and does the techniques the correct way.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

It's just natural talent. You can't coach that stuff. There were times in the game where Seaside's athletic ability just took over.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.