It’s Coming Home. I think. I’m not sure. Honestly, what I know about football, you could write on a half of a half of a half of a postage stamp.
Seriously. Last time I watched the World Cup, I was screaming “handball,” for 25 minutes before I realised… The goalie is allowed to catch the ball.
When Dujon Anderson joined me on The Movie Dweeb Podcast, I had to up my soccer-knowledge, after he literally flew in straight from watch England play Spain in this year’s EUROs finals.
Thankfully, we didn’t talk much about Jude Bellingham – yes, I Googled him – but instead, we made our own ultimate football squad using movie characters. (I can’t tell if my dad would be proud of me, or just sigh endlessly out of disappointment.)
Like, would he be pleased I’m talking about sport? Or just ashamed that I’m talking about sport in the same sentence as, “I watched Finding Dory six times this week”?
Dujon pitched his fantasy football team by adding The Incredible Hulk in goal, which on paper, seems smart – he’s huge; he can block pretty much anything that comes towards the net, but… Imagine being the manager who has to bring him off. Better you than me.
He also included Mufasa, Simba, Nala and Scar from The Lion King as his defence, against my feeble trio of Huey, Dewey and Louie. I think we all know how that’s going to end up – three minutes into the match, and the lions are feasting on hoisin duck pancakes. I just hope the referee is brave enough to give Scar a red card.
We then went head-to-head with our captains; I opted for Kill Bill’s The Bride, while Dujon said Ben Tennyson, of Ben 10, would be his captain. You’d have to get a pretty flexible captain’s armband though, given how many different aliens Ben could transform into.
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