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redlanered
redlanered Posts: 2,221
edited March 2012 in Other Football and Sports
OK, Henry gave us musicians-turned-actors, but what about footballers?

Vinnie of course, plus the marvellous cast of Escape to Victory. But here's my favourite cameo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpGiUNqXUCQ
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  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,505
    Geoff Hurst apparently - he was on Daybreak this morning!

    Cantona.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    Isn't one of our youth players in the Sainsbury's ad.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,716
    Bradley Walsh
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,013
    Jason Euell was in an Orange ad just after he signed for us.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,758
    edited March 2012
    oooh scotty parker

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/9114010/England-captain-Scott-Parkers-McDonalds-1993-advert.html
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,395
    Wasn't Ally McCoist in a Scottish film
    Graeme Souness in Boys from the Black Stuff
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Do adverts count? Was Jason playing a part? Was Scotty?
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,983
    Leaburn- Eastenders
    sol campball- snatch (on the door b4 the poker match)
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,983
    Do adverts count? Was Jason playing a part? Was Scotty?

    he was just doing kick ups
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,463
    Alan Simonsen was in a Danish film

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  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Wasn't there a rumour once that Curbs was in Quadrophenia!
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    The 1939 film "The Arsenal Stadium Mystery" included several of the players and the then Gooners Manager George Allison.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,463
    Wasn't there a rumour once that Curbs was in Quadrophenia!
    Not a rumour, Phil Daniels said it was Curbs throwing the chair through the plate glass window in the cafe scene in his biography.

  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    im sure if you were to look through the phones of a number of footballers you would find some very interesting movies that they have starred in!
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Wasn't there a rumour once that Curbs was in Quadrophenia!
    Not a rumour, Phil Daniels said it was Curbs throwing the chair through the plate glass window in the cafe scene in his biography.

    But Curbs didn't bother to ention it in his own books...

  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    John Salthouse, played Tony in the TV adaptation of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party. He used to play for Palace as did the chraracter Tony.
    Was also DI Galloway in the early episodes of The Bill.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,463
    Wasn't there a rumour once that Curbs was in Quadrophenia!
    Not a rumour, Phil Daniels said it was Curbs throwing the chair through the plate glass window in the cafe scene in his biography.

    But Curbs didn't bother to ention it in his own books...

    No, not in his badly ghost written, hardly anything of interest book he didn't : - )

  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    Weren't Kevin Keegan in Jossy's Giants? ;-)
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    curbs was in dream team on sky
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    Lee Evans plays for Man City! Oh no it ain't, it's James Milner......

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  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Bryan Robson in Jossy's Giants. KK had left them by then, as BR was a geordie boy he gave advice to jossy at the end of a series if I remember. Apparently Bobby Charlton was in it but I don't remember that.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Rod Stewart played the manager of Thamesford Town in Striker! What happened to Striker? I used to like that.
  • kodfish
    kodfish Posts: 631
    curbs was in dream team on sky
    So was Chrissie Powell.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,716
    Any Old Gits remember this?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164301/fullcredits#cast
  • addick16
    addick16 Posts: 1,018
    sasa llic
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,929
    Any Old Gits remember this?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164301/fullcredits#cast
    yes ! me mum and dad used to let me stay up to watch it!

    i suppose we could also mention the cast of escape to victory ...does that count ?

  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,032
    Joe Cole and the gherkin.
  • simples101
    simples101 Posts: 104
    Stan Collymore - Basic Instinct 2

  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Kermorgant- the muppet show.....
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,945
    Terry McDermott, Alan Kennedy and Graeme Souness were regulars on The Harry Enfield Show.

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