Classic comedy - football played just for laughs

Stop crying JT: James Cordon and the England team
Ben Bailey13 April 2012

Following on from James Cordon's Red Nose Day team-talk with the England players, we look back at some of the best sporting comedy moments...

Following on from the huge success of Gavin and Stacey, James Cordon's character Smithy' stumbles in on the England team and gives them a rousing speech. It's been a great year for Cordon, hopefully some of his magic can rub off on England's underperforming stars.

David Beckham's appearance in James Cordon's team-talk sketch isn't the first time he has featured on Red Nose Day. In 2001, both David and Victoria Beckham appeared on a one-off Ali G special. Unlike their appearance on Parkinson, this one was intentionally painful to watch.

Whitehouse's performance as Julio Geordio, a South American footballer recently signed for Newcastle, was one of the funniest sketches of the 1990s. Here is the infamous Danni Behr sketch.

The line, "he's got a foot like a traction engine" echoed across football pitches and playing fields all over the country after Steve Coogan coined the phrase.

One of the Mitchell and Webb's classics sees David Mitchell present a football advert in which he lambasts the hype surrounding the game with lines such as, "Watch the football, watch it, it's going to move".

A fairly recent addition to the world of sporting comedy, Setanta's new Special 1 TV comes straight out of the Spitting Image school of comedy. Jose Mourinho, the self proclaimed special one' is joined by Wayne Rooney and Sven-Goran Eriksson for a football talk show.

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