This is as bad as it gets. But still better than last season.
Manchester United might not have qualified for the Champions League and played some of the most boring football in recent memory but that hasn’t deterred the club’s corporate arm. The Red Devils’ sponsor list just keeps getting bigger and bigger. One of United’ zillion sponsors are 20th Century Fox who decided, in all their infinite wisdom, that the best way to promote their movies would be give bit-part roles to footballers who can barely act.
After making mock trailers for Deadpool and X-Men: Apocalypse, the boys of Manchester are back in a mock trailer of Independence Day: Resurgence in which United players Wayne Rooney, Chris Smalling, Ashley Young, Daley Blind and Juan Mata prove that Gautam Gambhir isn’t the worst sportsman when it comes to acting.
If you thought Gambhir’s ‘Gautam-No-More-Gambhir’ line from the Gionee ad for KKR was bad, wait till you watch Rooney and Co. ham it up in this fist-handed mash-up where Wayne Rooney says in his Scouse accent: “We can handle a couple of out of towners.”
Then there was Daley Blind ‘can’t believe they are playing me at centre-back’ Blind bragging about Manchester United’s ’20 league titles and 12 FA cups’ not to mention Smalling’s ’20 Community Shields’ brag, which has become the subject of mirth on Twitter.
There are scenes where Jeff Goldblum has trouble pronouncing Blind, as Daley tells him it rhymes with ‘wind’ and all in all, this is one of the lowest moments in United’s post-Ferguson era when a once great club has become little less than a corporate behemoth looking to use its millions of fans to earn a few extra bucks.
PS – I wouldn't place the earth's defence in Daley Blind's hands.
PPS - All will be forgotten if we use the extra cash to sign up Zlatan who can at least act better than these mugs.
Watch the trailer below:
Check out some of the epic Twitter reactions:
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