ACTING UP
Football’s most cringey adverts revealed from Southgate at Pizza Hut to Messi flogging face cream & Beckham’s Sharpies
We look back at the footie stars who have flogged everything, from tomato juice to pens
THEY are often accused of hamming it up on the football pitch.
But the game’s top stars can be just as bad off it – you only need to look at former Man United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who dressed up as a butcher and played an accordion to advertise Danish bacon.
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And he is not the only ace with a side hustle in cringey commercials.
Nadia Cohen looks back at the footie stars who have flogged everything, from tomato juice to pens . . .
KEVIN KEEGAN – Sugar Puffs
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MAN U’S RYAN GIGGS & ROBIN VAN PERSIE – Tomato juice (it’s red, geddit?)
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GARETH SOUTHGATE – Pizza Hut
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PETER SCHMEICHEL – Danepak bacon
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DAVID BECKHAM – Sharpies
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RONALDO – Japanese ‘facial fitness’ gizmo
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JIMMY BULLARD – Wash & Go
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JOHN BARNES – Just Eat
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HARRY KANE – 3Bears porridge
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LIONEL MESSI – Japanese face cream
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