The Crossbar Challenge.

Soccer AM is a British Saturday Morning football TV Show which is widely watched around the world. It features many skits about football and specialty features. One of these is called ‘the crossbar challenge’. It is quite a new feature to the show. On it, they take a weekly trip to the training ground of a certain British League football team. The whole team and sometimes even the coaches and managers are filmed, one-by-one, introducing themselves and attempting from the half way line to hit the crossbar of the goal. The challenge is rarely accomplished and most of the squads fail to even hit the crossbar once. The background music is normally “Seventeen Years” by Ratatat but has recently been changed to “Smiling” by The Beta Band.


The current record is held by Wolverhampton Wanderers who managed to hit the crossbar four times on April 25th 2009, beating the previous record of three set by Northampton town and Hereford United.


The current player record is held by Graham Stack who has managed to hit the crossbar two times for two separate clubs.


Soccer AM try to visit every team in the league but this becomes difficult for them as certain teams, such as Manchester United are unwilling to allow their players onto these type of shows.


The first ever manager to hit the bar is former Huddersfield Town manager Andy Ritchie. Wolves’ manager Mick McCarthy’s shot hit the crossbar and then bounced off and struck up the right when Wolves took part in the challenge. This has never been repeated.

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