Some years ago, during the 1986 soccer World Cup finals, The Sun ran a memorable front page headline: ‘MEXICO MEANS NO SEXICO!’ Apparently, all over England women were being left unsatisfied in bed because their partners were staying up late to watch Gary Lineker win the golden boot and Maradona score the famous ‘Hand of God’ goal. (Or the ‘hand of a fat, cheating, f♠♥♣ing Argentinian c♠♥♣-bucket’ goal as it was more accurately described by my mate Big Duncan, with whom I was drinking in a pub at the time.)

I mention this because, according to a recent article in a women’s magazine, Internet poker is having a similarly disastrous effect on female sex lives.