Imagine the scene. It’s Oscars night 2009.

Sean Penn gives a heartfelt acceptance speech after being given the best actor prize for his turn as trailblazing gay poltician Harvey Milk.

He holds back the tears as he thanks his mum and is about to embark on a bit of political grandstanding when, suddenly, from nowhere, Billy Crystal tap dances on to announce it has all been a big mistake and, in fact, Mickey Rourke was the winner all along.

Rourke storms on to the stage, grabs the statuette from the ashen-faced Penn and embarks on an acceptance speech of his own, heaping praise on his little dog who has stuck by him through thin and thinner.

If that scenario sounds like the paranoid imaginings of a lunatic escaped from Charenton asylum, forgive me.

It may well be beyond the realms of possibilty that the esteemed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would make such a monumental cock-up – if only we could say the same about football organisations.

Take the League Managers’ Association (LMA), for example.

I could not have been more proud on Wednesday morning, on visiting the BBC website to discover that Andy Scott had been named the LMA’s League Two manager of the season.

As The Sun would probably have had it, Brentford had been delivered “a sensational League Two team-of-the-year snub” despite running out worthy champions, and Andy Scott was not given a manager-of-the-month prize until the final month of the season, when there was no option but for the faceless panel to garland our gaffer.

The award would have been a nice little postscript to a title- winning season, “would have been” being the operative words.

In fact, the LMA had made a highly embarrassing error, releasing a press statement saying Scotty had won the League Two manager’s crown.

The apparently happy news was duly reported by the BBC and the Brentford website.

Later in the day, the bubble was burst by the association’s ludicrously named Olaf Dixon.

He released a further statement in which it was revealed there had been a big mistake and the winner was actually Paul Tisdale of Exeter City.

Far be it for me to denigrate the efforts of Mr Tisdale, but anyone with half a brain would conclude Andy deserved to run away with this award, although I am sure the championship medal on his mantelpiece is more than adequate compensation.