Former Newcastle United star Darren Ambrose has joked the 'proudest moment' of his Magpies career was cut from the movie Goal!.
The 2005 film charted the rise of illegal immigrant Santiago Munez from playing locally in the USA to starring from the Magpies.
The second film saw Munez become a 'Galactico' at Real Madrid, while the third installment where the Mexican international missed out on the 2006 World Cup was a box-office flop.
Ambrose spent two years at St James' Park after signing for Sir Bobby Robson's side from Ipswich Town in 2003.
The former midfielder has revealed he was handed a script and given a line for the first film during a team meeting scene.
However, Ambrose was left embarrassed when he took his girlfriend to the cinema and realised he had not made the final cut.
The former Newcastle midfielder told talkSPORT: "We turn up as players. There's a team meeting all set up, microphones everywhere.
"You sit there, my names is there and Kieron Dyer is there, Jermaine Jenas sits there. I was given a script and had a line, and I was thinking my goodness.
"I'm nervous, one line of four words took about eight takes for me. We go to the guy editing and ask is this going to stay in? The producers love it, they love it.
"Literally, it's the proudest moment of probably my career at Newcastle!
"It comes out at the cinema and I take my missus. I'm sat there, I'm thinking here we go.
"It comes on, 10 minutes in and the game has already happened in the film. An hour in, it's still not happened.
"I'm sweating, I'm nervous because she's going to see my big moment. After an hour and a half, I'm starting to sweat less.
"The credits come up, and I turn to my missus and she's just giving me the eyes. Every time that film is on the telly, she says 'isn't that the film you're in Dan?'
"I haven't checked the deleted scenes but four words and they got cut!"
