“I was once kicking a rugby ball around with my girlfriend and a guy (you know the type, obsessed with football, can’t understand any other sport’s appeal) walked past and said ‘your ball’s the wrong shape, play the national sport’.

“and I said ‘this is much more fun’.

“later I realised I should have said ‘we would play football, but all the rolling around crying is too tiring’.”

Jez, Oxford