With the UN in turmoil, light tanks at Heathrow and a man with a grenade in his luggage the news that England were beaten by Australia at football, that’s soccer for anyone who thinks people who play football should wear forty pounds of body armour, has passed by without the national angst that it might has coursed under normal circumstances. Let’s hope the delicious irony that the combined wage bill for the Australian team would probably be covered by the spare change David Beckham left in the changing room wasn’t lost on at least a few people.