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Despite living with his parents and working for the Job Centre, Stuart Tinner is cool.

Last night the 24-year-old rugby fan calmly stepped up to take a half-time crossbar challenge kick during the Saracens versus Springboks match, with £250,000 at stake.

For those of you adverse to attending rugby and football matches this is a common game in which a supporter is invited on at half time and challenged to kick a ball so that it lands, without previously bouncing, on the cross bar of the goal/rugby posts. Almost impossible and only really done because those funding the madness are almost assured they won't lose.

Step forward Big Stu Tinner in front of a packed Wembley crowd. After removing his shoes and announcing he would use the prize money to take the cheerleaders out for dinner, he struck the ball from 30 metres.

He then nonchalantly waited with his hands in his pockets as the ball flew through the air and hit the crossbar, landing our Stu the prize money and making him an instant hit with the Saracens cheerleaders.

To be honest, the hooker for the Welwyn RFC fifth team (may as well not play at all) looked happier at being mobbed by pom pom wielding cheerleaders than he did the cash. Speaking of the moment he became rich he said it was the second best day of his life - the first being when he lost his virginity.

Watch the kick heard round the world (well, erm, Welwyn) after the jump.