Time is the only thing that we do not have on our side.

Like most people, when I was younger I found more ways to waste my time.

As you get older you realise that time is the most important thing on the planet.

It is one of the reasons why I was never into computer and video games.

I hate them with a vengeance.

I have an XBox at home. It was given to my son as a birthday present — he has played on that console about 10 times.

The idea of sitting there and trying to get to the next level of a game that does not exist completely baffles me.

I recollect playing on a computer game for the first time when I was about 12.

It was one of those slow and boring games on a Commodore Vic20.

To load the game took several minutes and just when you thought you had mastered it the whole thing crashed and you had to start again.

I think waiting for the game to load was the best bit.

Once I played Championship Manager for two weeks flat. That was only game addiction I can think of.

Once I had won the Premier League, the FA Cup, the League Cup, European Cup and the World Club Cup with Blackburn Rovers — and my favourite player Mark Atkins in midfield — I kind of quit.

The whole reason we buy these games for our kids is pure laziness.

We would rather they play the games so we can watch the TV.

The worst thing on the planet has to be the games where you play a character. This I find strange, but I can envisage in a 100 years time we will only know each other by the character’s we are and not the people we are.

I am glad to say that the games are now banned in my house.

Want to get to the next level in some made-up game?

There is not enough time.