Sidemen charity match review and player ratings

Aakash Rao
6 min readSep 17, 2023

Welcome back to my blog, and today we are going to be taking a look at the biggest annual event on YouTube: the Sidemen charity match. As a huge fan of the Sidemen and football, I decided it would be a fun, refreshing change to take a look at the events of the day as well as how each player and team did.

The match was held at the London Stadium this year, a significant upgrade on the venue they held it at last year, Charlton Athletic’s home ground, the Valley. Surprisingly (or rather, unsurprisingly), tickets to the event sold out in hours, which was a promising sign that it would be an entertaining match and an extremely successful fundraiser. Thankfully, both of these promises were fulfilled.

Player ratings

FYI: I will be ranking and rating both teams’ players with a tier list and a rating out of 10.

Baller:

Manny — 9.7/10

Simon — 9.3/10

Tobi — 9.2/10

ChrisMD — 9.2/10

Chunkz — 9.2/10

Filly — 9.1/10

Ethan — 9/10

Angry Ginge — 9/10

The term ‘Baller’ is quite subjective to each individual, but in this case, let’s just say these players could pass as semi-professional or even League 2 players.

Manny, Simon, and Tobi are the deadly trio who have been regular performers and highlights of these…

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Aakash Rao

An avid Manchester United fan and football/music blogger!