ACTING UP Football’s most cringey adverts revealed from Southgate at Pizza Hut to Messi flogging face cream & Beckham’s Sharpies

But the game’s top stars can be just as bad off it – you only need to look at former Man United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who dressed up as a butcher and played an accordion to advertise Danish bacon.

And he is not the only ace with a side hustle in cringey commercials.

Nadia Cohen looks back at the footie stars who have flogged everything, from tomato juice to pens . . . 

GARETH SOUTHGATE – Pizza Hut

Gareth Southgate did a commercial for Pizza Hut following his famous Euro '96 penalty miss

DAVID BECKHAM – Sharpies

David Beckham promoted Sharpies

RONALDO – Japanese ‘facial fitness’ gizmo

Christiano Ronaldo in an ad for a Japanese ‘facial fitness’ gizmo

HARRY KANE – 3Bears porridge

Harry Kane has become the face of 3Bears porridge

LIONEL MESSI – Japanese face cream

Football genius Lionel Messi once did an ad for Japanese face creamFootball genius Lionel Messi once did an ad for