England Nil out of 3 - but winning isn't everything

Now all the results are in its another week of catastrophe for England. Or is it? We don't have to beat ourselves up over coming back from nowhere to nearly win the Rugby World Cup. Or how a rookie didn't quite make it to World Champion but has dominated the season and share of attention to a disproprortionate extent. No one was watching the leaders in the last Grand Prix. We just wanted to know if Lewis could make it to number 5 - which he didn't.

We can write all of this off as another example of English failure - never quite making the grade. But we can also look on it as a remarkably good week in sport which might have ended even better. Perhaps if the England football team took this attitude they might win a little more often and would deserve to as well.