So lacklustre were England’s hapless footballers during the World Cup that the tabloids were reducing to covering the indecorous antics of squad members’ wives and girlfriends – or ‘WAGs’ in red-top vernacular.

With salaries in the Square Mile soaring and high-earning partners now regularly gracing the gossip pages of the national press (as well as The Diary), it therefore comes as little surprise that City bighitters now have their own fast-growing band of perma-tanned glamour-pusses in tow.