You've been Merked! Manchester United legend David Beckham gets the Rio Ferdinand treatment - the best football videos on YouTube

 
And the Merkury prize goes to... Rio Ferdinand
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Standard Sport7 November 2014

Rio Ferdinand gets one over the then England captain and Real Madrid star, David Beckham, with hilarious fake Adidas event.

Long before his days of Twitter, Rio Ferdinand was one TV's original pranksters.

Nowadays the former England defender is feeling the FA's wrath from Tweeting when he 'should know better', but back in 2006, the then Manchester United defender had his own show... Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups.

Now, as motion pictures go, Rio probably knew he wouldn't pick up a Golden Globe for this production. So he did the next best thing... he picked on Golden Balls.

Like a lost scene from a northern remake of Lock Stock , Becks utters the phrase: "I'm in Moss Side... where do I run!?"

To find out where he goes, watch the video below:

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