Obviously vitally important stuff here people, as it’s all over the front page of today’s Soaraway Sun. Apparently Posh (hah! have you heard her speak?) and Becks are spending a quarter of a million on a party for the England football team. Aren’t you glad you’re not invited? Imagine how bored you’d get at a party where all the guests were either footballers or Spice Girls.

Football (in particular the World Cup) was going to become bit of an obsession on Wasted Inches and this was its first mention. This story could easily be written today. The Beckhams are still standard tabloid fodder. And the tabloids’ coverage of the England World Cup team gets more offensively jingoistic every

time the competition comes around. Of course, the other four Spice Girls have largely been forgotten.