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Facebook has hidden a Euro 2016 “keepy-uppy” football game in Messenger – here’s how to play it

Social network celebrates the tournament with an emoji-laden tribute to the beautiful game

Some people show how much they care about the results of Euro 2016 by clobbering other footie fans with bottles and chairs.

But if you're a Facebook fan, there's a much safer way of demonstrating your all-consuming passion for the beautiful game.

 Facebook has a history of giving users little treats known as "easter eggs"
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Facebook has a history of giving users little treats known as "easter eggs"Credit: PA:Press Association

The social network has hidden a secret football game within its Messenger communications app - and we've found out how to access it.

All you need to do is fire up Messenger and then click on a football emoji.

Tech fans refer to as an "easter egg", but football fans will probably call Facebook's surprisingly tricky game keepy-uppy.

 Are your fingers nimble enough to keep up with Mark Zuckerberg's football game?
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Are your fingers nimble enough to keep up with Mark Zuckerberg's football game?

Players have to tap on the ball to send it flying up the screen, before then pressing it again and again to keep the orb flying in the air.

The ball bounces around the screen realistically and anyone who manages to keep the ball in the air 10 times in a row will have to cope with various tricks designed to make the game more difficult.

This smartphone game has much of the tension of real life keepy-uppy, but little of the fitness-boosting health benefits (unless your fingers really need to lose some weight).

Facebook's beautiful game is it's introduced over the years.

To celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day, the social network introduced a new language option called "pirate English".

If you enable "pirate mode" (which you can find out how to do by ), the language of Facebook is changed to the sort of lingo you'd expect to hear coming from the lips of a peg-legged, salty sea dog.

For instance, if you want to post a status update you'd click the button which says "what be 'troublin ye?".

Facebook also , which work on a similar principle to the footy easter egg.


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