I must say, though, that I’m not high on Vodafone’s inability to deliver a seamless mobile phone or customer service.

In the one week where I have most needed my mobile phone contract to come through for me, Vodafone have had — it turns out after three interminable phone calls in which I struggled to even get through to a person, one resetting of my voicemail, and one complete deletion of my mailbox — a week-long, nation-wide voicemail service f%&k up.

I’ve been getting text messages every 20 minutes telling me that I have a new voicemail message, whether or not I actually do, which is particularly frustrating when I’m working crazy hours and my phone is both my only point of contact and my alarm clock. There’s nothing quite like being woken up every 20 minutes by a text message when you’re barely scraping in five hours of shut eye.

Still, it’s a small issue in the grand scale of things, particularly in light of such issues as homelessness, and there have been much better and more blog-worthy moments than a malfunctioning voicemail server to remind me of this.

My top four moments so far are:

1. The fact that the Homeless World Cup street parade kicked off at the high end of town, under the eaves of such retailers as Armani and Hermes. Their suited staff peered out of the windows and some even ventured downstairs to watch and cheer on the parade of people who are the antithesis of the target market for their exclusive, aspirational brands: poetry.

2. One of the USA players proudly carrying the US flag in the parade had written ‘Obama’ in texta on his white uniform shirt.

3. In the Australia v Nigeria match, one of the defending Nigerian players copped a shot square in the gonads which completely floored him. It was clear that his ‘that really really hurt’ reaction needed no interpretation and it was both priceless and touching that the Australian guys were, through gestures, trying to give him their recovery tips.

4. Someone has hung a king-sized sheet from the front of the Melbourne Pitch bleachers that reads Braveheart-like: ‘They may take our homes but they’ll never take our football’.

When Fiona isn’t battling Vodafone’s voice unrecognition system, she writes about football on her website.