"Nutmeg Royale"

5 November 2022

2 mins 15s

Pep walk.

The most humiliating thing that can happen on a football field is to be nutmegged... having the ball put through your legs by an opposing player. In this film supporting Pepsi's sponsorship of the football World Cup that's about to take place in Mordor, Lionel Messi is among the players who find themselves victim of the manoeuvre.

Messi doesn't take such humiliation lying down so, in a setting that looks Middle Eastern enough to invoke the forthcoming tournament, he sets about gaining his revenge. Fat Boy Slim's 'Funk Soul Brother' enlivens proceedings and director Ernest Desumbila makes the absolute best of whatever limited time he had with each of the footballers who participated.

Argentina

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