After seeing the Mars adverts on TV saying they’re giving away 1000’s of footballs, as England aren’t in the Euro this summer, I have developed a slight Mars bar addiction. Not that I’m into football in any way – I just want to win a ball.

I say I’m not into football, I’m more a player fan than a team fan….Ryan Giggs, the lovely welsh one, captured my heart and has been the only player for me (aside from LOG, obviously) since I was around 15 (although again, aside from LOG) If you made me chose a team it would without a doubt have to be Manchester United, mainly down to the fact I went Old Trafford on a school trip and got Peter Schmeichel’s autograph and saw Eric Cantona, plus – they have Giggs. Happy sigh...

Despite my not being into football, I do happen to have an understanding of the offside rule. Kind of.

It is a shame that the England team, well any of the UK teams, didn’t manage to qualify, although the pubs will be slightly nicer this summer, with fewer masses of drunk men shouting and screaming at the TV’s….

Anyway, back to my efforts at winning one of these damn balls…although with the amount of mars bars I've eaten and the fact that I all I've done is 'hit the crossbar' I'm not actually convinced there's any of these mars footballs in actual existence....