Poor Gareth Southgate. In the latest Esquire magazine he was given a royal mocking, but not for anything about England’s World Cup performance. It was his clothing that offended. “We Need to Talk About Gareth Southgate’s Waistcoat” ran the headline. The article said that the item in question was “one of menswear’s most depressing” and that Southgate looked as though he had “just knocked off from official ushering duties at a wedding in East Grinstead”.

That same day I’d discovered statistics showing that only 14 per cent of men in the US are 6ft or taller, which 86 per cent of American women say is their height requirement for a partner. Heightism is something obvious in my millennial life; almost every woman I talk to