Perhaps it’s because I’m English that I took amiss Alex Morgan’s tea-sipping celebration after she scored the winning goal against England in the women’s World Cup semi-final. But I don’t think it was that. It was more because she was being unsportsmanlike and rude.

Don’t mock your beaten foe. Dignity, honor, graciousness, and magnanimity all used to be so much part of sport that the word “sport” became a synonym for those excellent qualities. That’s why we talk of being “a good sport” and of “sportsmanlike conduct.” But such ideas have fallen into desuetude.