To be fair, you wouldn’t expect anything else.
Throughout the history of The Inbetweeners, we’ve frequently heard Jay boast about his skills as a football player and manager. After all, Jay did have trials at West Ham and he became so good at Championship Manager that he was offered a job at the F.A.
To be fair, anyone that can take Woking from the Conference into the Champions League is clearly this generation’s Brian Clough.
What we didn’t expect though was to see Blake Harrison (Neil from The Inbetweeners) stealing a march on his buddy and getting to rub shoulders with the likes of Eric Cantona, Robbie Keane, Clarence Seedorf, Jaap Stam and countless other famous footballers during Soccer Aid.
As for the match, it took penalties to decide the contest after an entertaining game.
Darren Bent opened the scoring for England after being played through by Olly Murs – a legitimate sentence – and they doubled the lead after Lynch scored.
Robbie Keane did what he does best by scoring with a deft lob over David Seaman and Juan Sebastian Veron levelled things up for the World XI thanks to an assist from Ireland’s record goalscorer.
Clarence Seedorf gave the World XI the lead for the very first time in the game with a cool finish but Michael Owen’s late strike took the match to penalties.
A fantastic first touch by Robbie Keane followed by a cool finish. Game on!
England XI 2 – 1 World XI#SoccerAid @SoccerAid pic.twitter.com/D3MeDqMKnI
— ITV (@ITV) June 10, 2018
Ultimately, England came out on top when it went to spot-kicks as Neil (Blake Harrison) from The Inbetweeners scored the decisive penalty – another legitimate sentence.
Before the action even kicked-off, it’s clear that Harrison has been channelling a bit of his beloved character because he couldn’t help put make that gormless and goofy smile that we all love so much.
After watching him play, maybe he’ll change his preferred profession from pilot airplane driver to footballer?
We reckon that ‘Saucy Asda Karen’ wouldn’t mind dating a professional footballer?
God save our gracious Neil, eh?
Take a look.
Every team has a @BlakeHarrison23 😜#SoccerAid @SoccerAid pic.twitter.com/xylZy0agFA
— ITV (@ITV) June 10, 2018
GOAALLL!
Blake Harrison wins it for England
4-3
Watch LIVE on @ITV pic.twitter.com/8JaZWSVxtB
— ITV Football (@itvfootball) June 10, 2018
An England LEGEND is born.@BlakeHarrison23 #SoccerAid @SoccerAid pic.twitter.com/Dt4PyzUjLy
— ITV (@ITV) June 10, 2018
As for the reaction, well…
Thought it was Jay who had trials at Westham not Neil #SoccerAid2018 pic.twitter.com/o58cbpYqrm
— Sean (@SBizzle91) June 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/ffslluke/status/1005921152466907139
Little bit disappointed that Neil from the inbetweeners and the rest of the England team didn’t do the dance after wining the penalty shot out #SoccerAid pic.twitter.com/820aAreIhs
— 🏴 Bobby Ingram 🇬🇧 (@bobster_86) June 10, 2018
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