This Weekend’s Most-Watched Soccer Game Has 18 Goals and 0 Professional Players

Manchester United playing Arsenal on Sunday should be the biggest match of the English football weekend.

But it isn’t.

Even though more than 75,000 supporters will head to Old Trafford to watch that Premier League fixture, the game with the highest attendance anywhere in Europe on Saturday or Sunday took place at Wembley Stadium in London between the Sidemen and YouTube Allstars.

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Liverpool, Arsenal and United are playing second-fiddle, crowd-wise, to sides that included KSI, Logan Paul, iShowSpeed, MrBeast, Kai Cenat, AngryGinge and Chunkz.

The Sidemen, a YouTube collective with 22 million subscribers, sold 90,000 tickets to watch them at England’s national stadium against a team of fellow YouTubers in aid of three

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