Are you not entertained? Let’s put away this bauble until 2014

SO HOW was it for you? Did the earth move? See stars before your eyes? Hear a ringing in your ears?

Are you not entertained? Or can we put global football back into its box for four years, and return to watching the proper game between elite club teams, and those who want to lay them low?

“Tout le monde a la bataille” (“Everyone in the fight”) was the famous instruction of Marshall Foch before the last great offensive of the First World War and, for a brief shining moment, World Cup 2010 seemed poised to deliver.