If you are looking for a meal in a hurry, perhaps you should pop into Domino’s gaff in Fratton in Portsmouth. For the third year on the trot one of their staff, Zagros Jaff, has walked off with the title of Domino’s European Fastest Pizza Marker.

This year’s competition was held in Holland and contestants were required to make three 13-inch pizzas using 40 pepperoni slices, tomato pizza sauce, 142g of mushrooms, and 198g of diced cheese. Meeting the judges’ exacting standards isn’t a piece of cake, competitors being awarded 15 second time penalties if, for example, a pepperoni slice is placed in the wrong spot or the dough is not stretched to the right length.

Jaff won by recording the astonishing time of 27 seconds, or the equivalent of making 133 pizzas a n hour. In recognition of his astonishing feat, or should it be hands, Jaff was awarded a trophy bearing a cast of his hands in gold. When I visit Fratton Park later in the football season, I might just pop in and take a look at it.

I can’t help thinking, though, that a pay rise might have been more useful.