“If Rubio had said, ‘Stop it, everybody in this room can see what a conceited, pompous bag of wind you are, we had our own abusive fathers, and we don’t need you’ — that would have been effective,” she said.

His inclination for stories like this explains why Jon Snow thinks of him as a “great bag of wind and lies” at one point in the book.

“You’re nothing but a big bag of wind!” she shouted at him.

Until then, we will go on enjoying the great football in the wonderful - publically funded - stadiums and thank the footballing gods how watching 22 guys kicking a bag of wind about could be such a pleasing spectacle.

Jean-Paul Sartre, on the other hand, “is a bag of wind, and I am going to give him a good boot.”