Bob Geldof didn't much like Mondays, back in the day when he was a Boomtown Rat. Cue England - June 28th 2010 - and now nobody likes Mondays.
This is England in crisis. This is England on its knees. This is a defeated and deflated England - a hopeless England, a forlorn England, the England of the lost and the hopeless.
Twenty four hours previously, the country was buzzing, filled with Dunkirk spirit, a proud land with a proud heritage, but a crap football team. And a crap coach, who may be Italian - but that's by the by.
Today, England is demoralised, facing moral and financial meltdown - an England which harboured hopes and dreams, that maybe, just maybe, our team would lift us all out of the maudlin twilight and into the sunshine once more.
The faith was misplaced. England were dismantled by a ruthlessly efficient German footballing machine, and humiliated, as the £100,000 per week prima donnas gave up the ghost with nary a whimper of protest.
As our Italian Generalissimo stood on the sidelines, clueless and obstinate, as his masterplan unravelled before our very eyes.
Today, as the nation awakes to the horrible realisation that we're nowhere near as good as we'd like to think we are at the beautiful game, nobody wants to go to work, or school. The general concensus appears to be that today England has called in sick.
Not because of hangovers - heaven knows, there was nothing worthy of raising a glass to. People are sick because they've been short changed yet again by a group of average footballers with delusions of grandeur.
Had the team played their hearts out and been beaten by a superior team, then the English could have taken some consolation from the fact that they'd given it their best shot. England can forgive a failure.
But England cannot forgive a lack of effort, or vanity that knows no bounds.
Many people stayed in their beds this morning. Sick. Sick to their stomachs. Indeed, the only job that many Englishmen will be undertaking on this day, is the taking down of the George Cross flags.
Which now look so forlorn, abandoned and helpless.
SHAME ON YOU
More as we get it.
