O'Gara was quick to commiserate with Jones after the final whistle and swapped shirts with his opposite number.

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Untidy looking young people wander into each others' houses to commiserate on why nobody will finance their projects.

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America's defence secretary was the last foreigner to see Sheikh Issa alive and the first to commiserate with Sheikh Hamad.

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And the normally tee-total Wilkinson revealed in The Times that he "broke the habit of pretty much a lifetime" to commiserate Saturday's loss.

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The first person to call Andy Coulson to commiserate when he resigned from the News of the World was Gordon Brown (at least according to Mr Coulson).

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The same morning at the Harvard School of Business, 40 audit committee members will attend "Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance" and commiserate about having to put a stamp of approval on financial statements prepared by others.

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"She would commiserate, I think, to feel close to me, " he says.

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