SIMPSONS CREATOR MATT GROENING turns 59 today, so we took the opportunity to put together a mish-mash of our favourite sporting moments, cameos and M**e T***n impersonations from the seminal animated series…

Drederick Tatum

This is possibly our favourite clip of The Champ, who is absolutely, in no way based on… You know yourselves…

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Darryl Strawberry

The episode, ‘Homer At The Bat,’ featured a host of baseball cameos but we’ve Darr…yl, Darr…yl wins it for us.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

Ronaldo doesn’t actually appear in a single episode, only in ‘Nike: Write the Future’ and is on screen for less than 5 seconds.

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Lionel Messi

Well, anything HE can do…* (*may not be real*) (*is not real)

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Simpsons visit the NFL on FOX

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Simpsons on soccer

“Fast kickin’, low scorin’, and ties? You bet!”

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The Manning Brothers

We feel sorry for Cooper, we really do.

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The Denver Broncos

The tail end of the best ever episode of The Simpsons, featuring the fiendish and brilliant Hank Scorpio. He likes German beer.

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LeBron James

He doesn’t make friends with salad.

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Mark McGwire

Major League Baseball is always watching.

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