The trouble with sport is that one person’s joy invariably comes with someone else’s disappointment.
It’s as true in selection as anything else, perhaps more so.
And picking a team is subjective, even if modern-day coaches like to believe they are better informed than the rest of us because of the availability of statistics and data that may or may not reveal how many steps a player walked on the third Sunday in December or often he or she sneezed two Wednesdays ago.