Years ago I, possibly more than 50, I saw a programme on the BBC about folk music and there was one song mocking the insufficiency of Napoleon’s “codlings”. Codlings are an old word for apples and also where the word codpiece comes from.

So the British have been mocking their enemies’ testicular troubles for at least two hundred years.

Also on Test Match Special (Cricket commentary radio show famous for digressions and ability to keep talking when rain stopped play) they once produced a version that went

Willis has bowled the odd no-ball

Henricks bowls hardly any at all

Willey is just as silly

But Old bowls no no-balls at all.