That’s right, things just got macho… 

Fans of Billy Elliot can appreciate that even tough guys do ballet. It’s not all prancing about in tights, these people are athletes. So much so, that when  a squadron of English ballerinas decided to take it upon themselves to create some of the finest football moments in history - only with women in frilly tutus - no one questioned the point of it for a moment. They’ve just created The Beautiful Game: A Football Ballet.

The results - gorgeous.

And, yet, while ballerinas can enter the football world unscathed, can footballers go the other way without looking like total pillocks?

John Barnes answers that very question after the jump…