Right people, fix up look sharp.

In November of this year I'm off to help renovate a remote school near Cape Town in South Africa with the Bobby Moore Fund. The condition, though, is that I raise £4,000 first, which gives me very little time, so I need you to donate quickly and as generously as you can.

To add to the hilarity of somebody this hairy doing manual labour in the searing heat, we will also be building a football pitch for the school and having our own mini World Cup, in which the local community's future Maldinis, Maradona and Massarellas will strut their collective stuff. You'll then be able to read about my suffering, on and off the pitch, in FourFourTwo and at fourfourtwo.com, where I'll also be posting a video blog. That's gotta be worth a few quid.

All proceeds will go to Cancer Research UK, and somewhere along the line hopefully everybody will get as good treatment as the first lady, Mrs M.

For further information on the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK, and my trip to South Africa, go to: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/bobbymoorefund

Thanks in advance.