Watch Smithy talk tactics with Beckham (VIDEO)

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Watch Smithy talk tactics with Beckham (VIDEO)
Watch Smithy talk tactics with Beckham (VIDEO) (Image credit: PA Wire/PA Photos)

Gavin and Stacey star James Corden has applied his unique logic to the England football team in a skit for Comic Relief featuring David Beckham and John Terry. Corden, in character as Smithy, stumbles across the team while they're in camp at a country hotel. It's not long before he's giving advice to the team, including advising Peter Crouch to improve his 'robot' goal celebration, telling John Terry to save his tears for home and explaining to Shaun Wright-Phillips he's got to raise his celebrity profile. It's very funny - and you can see it all here...

Tune into Comic Relief – Funny for Money this Friday to see Smithy talk team tactics with the national squad. BBC One from 7pm.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.