Incredible, isn't it, a few flakes of the white stuff and the nation immediately regresses into childhood, pointing excitedly out of office windows and hurling snowballs during the dinner break.

Or maybe it's just me.

Your average footballer hardly needs an excuse to act like a child and the little darlings were like kids in the proverbial sweetshop when they turned up for training on Thursday, teaming up for five-a-side snowball fights and leaving many fans wondering why they can't hit the target that regularly on a Saturday.

England coach Steve McClaren must have looked out at his white-carpeted lawn on the morning after the night before thinking it was the perfect day to bury bad news in our weather-obsessed country. How wrong he was.

"Matadors 1, Macabores 0", screamed The Sun. "Cold Trafford" moaned The Independent, while the Daily Mail summed up the defeat by Spain in one word - "Desperadoes".

And it got worse. By Friday the Red Tops' graphics wizards had got their act together and poor old Macca had become immortalised as Bungle from Rainbow in The Mirror, while The Sun stuck a carrot on his nose under the headline "Snow Man's Land".

Still, it wasn't all bad for English sport, thanks to the valiant efforts of England's cricketers in beating Australia twice in a week (who'd have thought you'd be reading that a month back?) and, of course, Jonny Wilkinson.

The Daily Star headline 'Jonny Be God' summed up the general mood of the nation, although Daily Telegraph journalist Judith Woods decided to approach it from a slightly different angle, recalling a previous meeting she'd had with the World Cup winner in which she described him as "epically, invincibly dull...a veritable colossus of tedium".

I was thinking of a suitably acerbic response to Ms Woods' assertions, but hey, let Jonny's boot do the talking.

Video of the week has to be the latest ballboy steals headlines in Brazil match story. You’ll remember the cheeky scamp who scored a goal for his team a few weeks back, well this little rascal attempts to upstage him by taking the instruction "give the keeper some stick" a little too literally.

As for the golden oldie, Who Ate All the Pies has dug out this little gem from the video vault of Chris Waddle duetting with Basile Boli on a song so bad it makes Diamond Lights look like Bohemian Rhapsody. And don't get me started on the video.

Cleaner Agnes Haddock enjoyed the best seven days of her life, transforming a £2 bet into £668,620 by winning the Totesport Scoop 6, followed by the bonus fund, using the highly-complicated system of picking horses whose name she liked.

We'll try and avoid the plethora of fish puns just itching to be used, but suffice to say Haddock now knows for sure that there is a cod.

It was a case of good week/bad week for Ronaldo, who took a dive, scored a penalty to help United to three points then copped a further six for speeding. The BBC News website report referred to him as "Ronaldo, of Stockport". Hardly conjures up images of greatness, does it?

Peyton Manning was named Most Valuable Player as the Colts beat the Bears in the Super Bowl, but far more interesting was the revelation in Popbitch that Manning "takes his Mum's biscuits to football practice to share out".

Finally, as a long-suffering QPR fan, I have to mention yet another incident souring the name of our once-great club (we won the League Cup in 1967) following a mass brawl between Rangers players and their opponents the Chinese Olympic side.

Just a thought, lads, but maybe you could stick to fighting relegation in the future?