100 kids (and James Corden) play football against Manchester United players

What’s more adorable than that?
 By  Laura Byager  on 
100 kids (and James Corden) play football against Manchester United players
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It truly was a game of quality versus quantity when James Corden of The Late Late Show had his LLS Football Club (LLSFC) play Manchester United in Los Angeles, U.S.

While Man United was only represented by coach José Mourinho and players Ander Herrera, Juan Mata and Chris Smalling, Corden’s LLSFC consisted of 100 children. By Corden’s own estimations, that’s the weight equivalent of “40 adults” — not counting James Corden himself, who put himself in the game half way through by benching one very disappointed player.

The game is as chaotic to watch as you’d imagine, with kids swarming around the fully grown Man United players, who ultimately manage to sneak two goals past all eight of Corden’s tiny goalkeepers and secure themselves the mathematically improbable victory.

Keep watching until the end for some seriously cute footballer-kid player interaction. What’s more adorable than that?

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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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