There is precedent for England players being allowed to put family matters first, with Michael Vaughan, Andrew Flintoff, Andrew Strauss and Matt Prior all returning home from tours in recent years.
To make matters worse, there are signs that the piqueteros are now being used in a long-running battle between Mr Kirchner and Mr Duhalde for control of the ruling Peronist party's machine in the Buenos Aires rustbelt.
It matters that there is a consistent market buzz about some inconsistent issues, one of them being what is turning out to be a not so clever antenna design implementation.