A Facebook without Al Balls is a rotting dystopia, an ocean of banality, a laughless Nomansland where the rivers overflow with garish, luminous, pixelated candy - uncrushed by our bespectacled hero - and where wild hounds bark until the moon sinks under the blood red morning, unchecked by our resident dog whisperer.

I always said I'd love to see him in the final. I guess the semi-finals came around just too soon for Al. If you want the winner of the GNFB Post of the Year 2012 back on Facebook, please sign this petition. If you want a better life for yourself and your family, please sign this petition. If you believe in justice, and the plight of one man - facing the wind of change head-on, drenched by the torrents of abuse hurled between fellow men, soaking up all the vitriol the world has to offer, clinging onto life's ropes with blistered palms and shattered fingernails, face contorted into a terrifying mesh of Steve Davis and Nigel Slater's most obvious features, and yet with the courage and dignity to say "is there any fucking chalk in this place or what?!" - if you believe in that man's fundamental ethos, you will sign this petition and bring him back to the table.

30 signatures says he must return.

Live the dream, yeah?