Did He Really Mean It?

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So, the other day I took it upon myself, being the lefty-liberal Guardian-reading, London-bubble living individual that I am, to sign up on the FA’s FA Cup/carbon footprint website, www.carbonfootyprint.com. I have to confess I did this because I thought that they should know about the run that we’re undertaking.

Unfortunately, upon signing up I realised that all the site is is a message board where you pledge those ‘little things’ that you’re doing to help stop the onset of global warming, rather than a chance to show that you too can get public transport to some far-off places if you so choose.

Undeterred, I put in my details and made some highly achievable pledges (unplugging my phone charger, not washing for months, using low-energy masturbation techniques, that sort of thing…). I put my team down as Port Vale, as I knew that’s where we’d be going in the next round for the tie against Chasetown.

About ten minutes ago, I took a phone call. It went something like this:

Me: ‘Hello’

Unknown number: ‘Hello, is that bamos?’

 

Me: ‘Yes’

 

Unknown number: ‘Hello, it’s Aaron here from carbonfootyprint.com (my heart falls - just what I need, a cold caller…). I’m ringing to thank you for pledging on the website (yeah, yeah, whatever…) and also to congratulate you (hmmm..?) because you’ve won a free ticket to the Port Vale match on Sunday.’

 

Me: ‘Brilliant! Thanks a lot! I didn’t even know there was a prize on offer!”

 

Aaron’: ‘No worries. It’s in the post! Enjoy yourself!’ 

 

Who says global warming is a bad thing? If we weren’t aware of it, I’d be waxing £19 on a Port Vale ticket on Sunday, rather than schlepping in for free like I am now. Thank you, FA bandwagon-jumping websites, energy abusers and the like!