All this Mr Blobby talk reminds me of the time in primary school when a poster appeared saying Mr Blobby was going to visit us.

While confused as to the reason why he would visit our school we were generally all excited. On the day we were taken outside and told to wait for Mr Blobby to come and see us.

After a lengthy wait the door opened and out stepped... one of the middle aged dinner ladies I think, in a furry Mr Blobby costume. It had an open mouth / head so we could see her face.

She shouted “Who do you support?!” Some answered Newcastle, I seem to remember a lot of us stayed silent. One lad said Sunderland as a joke.

And... that was about it. She soon disappeared back inside and I was left wondering what had just happened and why.

To this day I don’t know what the point of it was. It wasn’t particularly fun, it certainly wasn’t educational and it didn’t raise any money or awareness for anything.

Was it supposed to be a real performer in a better costume and the school was just let down? Or was it always the plan to have a short, middle aged dinner lady ask us our football team preferences in a cheap costume?

Mr Blobby visiting a school in the north east just seemed such a random thing to happen, I don’t think it was Children in Need or anything even remotely like that.

But to be promised Mr Blobby and it turn out to be... that. I can’t fathom what they were thinking.

I suppose it got us out of lessons for 10-20 minutes (most of which was spent waiting outside).

Anyway, that was the time I almost, sort of met Mr Blobby.