Book about Footy and accidentally putting spice on the girl pasta around 2000

Hey everyone I’m trying to find a book that i teacher read to the class. I can’t remember the author. The Footy player guy Character was playing AFL OR footy. All I can remember is he got bullied and show off and invited a girl over for dinner without his parents and tried to cook Spaghetti but accidentally put chilli or something in her pasta. The Table had a red placemat and knife and fork.

The guy lives in a city of apartments.

Also they did read deadly paul jennings and morris series in high schools around 2000 to 2007.

It’s driving me crazy