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Game4Grenfell: The Best Pictures as Team Ferdinand Win Celebrity Charity Match – Sept 2, 2017

He’s a Ham!

by Staff | The Telegraph | September 2, 2017

Damian Lewis playing Game4Grenfell, a charity football match in aid of the victims of the Grenfell Fire tragedy.  Grenfell Tower Charity Match, Loftus Road, London, UK – 02 Sep 2017

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From Locker Room to After Party: Damian Lewis at Game for Grenfell – Sept 2, 2017

From Locker Room to After-Party: Damian Lewis at Game for Grenfell

Damian Lewis at Game4Grenfell 2017 – Source: Getty

Well, he may call himself a muppet but Damian plays more like a professional baller in Game for Grenfell!

Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer, two former football stars, put together Game4Grenfell, a football match between two amazing teams of football stars and non-football stars at Queen Park Rangers’ (QPR) Loftus Road Stadium “to raise funds and inspire hope for those affected” by the Grenfell Tower fire that caused at least 80 deaths and more than 70 injuries back in June.

And while we are all on the same side at Game4Grenfell; on the side of the victims, their families, and the larger Lancaster West Estatecommunity, when asked by Game4Grenfell the following question, I have only one answer:

Game4Grenfell Team Sheet

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Damian Lewis’s Goal for Grenfell Tower Charity Football Match? Don’t Get Nutmegged! – Sept 1, 2017

Damian Lewis’s goal for Grenfell Tower charity football match? Don’t get nutmegged!

By David Churchill – Evening Standard – September 1, 2017

Damian has one aim when he takes to the pitch for tomorrow’s Grenfell Tower charity football match — to avoid the kind of humiliation he suffered at the feet of one of the world’s greatest players.

Zinedine Zidane nutmegged the former Homeland star in front of 70,000 people at Old Trafford after Lewis clattered into him with a poor tackle during a 2010 Soccer Aid match.

Don’t break a leg: Damian Lewis in action against Zinedine Zidane at Old Trafford in 2010 – Source: Evening Standard

This time Lewis, who grew up near Grenfell Tower, will be playing alongside stars including Sir Mo Farah, Olly Murs, Tinie Tempah and Alan Shearer at Loftus Road, home of Queens Park Rangers. Funds raised will go through London Community Foundation to the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund before being distributed to survivors, and towards community projects.

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