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Topics: England, Lionel Messi
Josh Lawless
16 celebrities fell to a football question on the 1% Club, including an England and Premier League legend.
Back in June, host Lee Mark hosted a Soccer Aid special of the hit ITV quiz show as part of a mass takeover of the channel's programming prior to the charity fixture at Old Trafford.
In the Soccer Aid 1% club edition, a total of 100 celebrities from multiple areas of sports and entertainments answering questions with increasing levels of difficulty.
Wayne Rooney, Gary Neville, Sir Mo Farah, Tommy Fury, Harry Redknapp, Denise Lewis and Jill Scott were just some of the huge household names who signed up, with a £100,000 charity prize on offer.
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And it was the 70% question which caught out a massive 16 of the participants.
Mack, a Soccer Aid regular and goalscorer, asked the players, 'Which of these is an anagram of LIONEL MESSI?' and 'A) LONE MISSILE, B) LION IN SLIME and C) NO SMILES LEE' were the options given.
A was the correct answer, with 16 answering with the wrong response. One of those to do so former England defender Stuart Pearce, who played 78 times for England and was nicknamed
'Psycho' because of his hard-man approach.
Pearce, who turned out for Coventry City, Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, West Ham and Manchester City before managing the latter and England's Under 21's, was eliminated alongside actor Emmett J Scanlan among others.
But the man dubbed the brainiest footballer, went on to claim the £100,000 prize. Clarke Carlisle, who appeared on Countdown and won his first two matches, was in the final with former Soccer AM host Lloyd Griffith and they had secured £11,000.
But while Griffith was tripped up on the final question and misread it, the former Burnley defender, who did not even need his pass, did the business.
The question was, "In the opening verse to the original version of Three Lions, what TWO words feature exactly three times in the lyrics?".
The lyrics were shown on the screen and within 30 seconds, Carlisle identified the repeated words as "know" and "it" to bag £100,000 for UNICEF.