Sidemen star signed by pro football team after scouting at Sidemen charity match Twitter: SDMNYouTubers Tobi \u2018TBJZL\u2019 Brown and Manny will be getting trials with Crawley Town after the English Football League club scouted the Sidemen Charity Match for players. Though, some fans aren\u2019t impressed. Over the years, as the Sidemen Charity Match has grown in stature, plenty of fans have claimed that their favorite content creators could step up a level and actually play football regularly. Some YouTubers have joined semi-professional clubs in the past, but no one has made the step up to play in the actual professional ranks. Well, Crawley Town, who currently play in League 2 of the English Football League, have set out to change that. The Red Devils raised a few eyebrows when they revealed that they\u2019d be scouting this year\u2019s Sidemen game \u2013 which finished 8-7 in favor of the hosts \u2013 for players to potentially join the team for their FA Cup campaign. TBJZL & Manny invited to train with Crawley Town after Sidemen match Well now, a few weeks after the game, the club have confirmed that they\u2019ll be inviting three players to train with them ahead of the game \u2013 the Brown brothers. The trio includes Tobi, who is otherwise known as TBJZL and is a founding member of The Sidemen, Manny, a FIFA YouTuber, and their brother Jed. Manny and Tobi linked up in that game at Charlton Athletic\u2019s The Valley stadium, combining for arguably the goal of the game when Tobi delivered an outside-of-the-boot cross for his brother to head home from. Though, the move hasn\u2019t exactly gone down well with fans. \u201cMaking league 2 sound like a joke,\u201d said one. \u201cGood marketing but embarrassing and feel sorry for the young upcoming pros who actually take it seriously,\u201d replied another. \u201cWhat a joke of a owner and club. Laughing stock of football,\u201d added another. Some outsiders agreed that is a good publicity move for the club, as the YouTubers will attract plenty of attention for them and may even create a handful of new fans. The club themselves have said it\u2019s \u201cfairly unlikely\u201d that the YouTubers would even make it off the bench but they want to \u201cgive them every opportunity\u201d to show what they can do. The Red Devils previously signed reality TV star Mark Wright, and he was subbed on during an FA Cup win over Leeds United back in early 2021, so who knows what could happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sidemen star signed by pro football team after scouting at Sidemen charity match Twitter: SDMNYouTubers Tobi \u2018TBJZL\u2019 Brown and Manny will be getting trials with Crawley Town after the English Football League club scouted the Sidemen Charity Match for players. Though, some fans aren\u2019t impressed. Over the years, as the Sidemen Charity Match has grown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}