Matt Le Tissier to follow colleague Jeff Stelling onto Countdown

The former Southampton star will park his Soccer Saturday durties to become the fourth professional footballer to appear on the Channel 4 show maths and letters quiz.

Le Tissier, 46, announced on Twitter he has passed his contestant audition and will be filming this autumn.

The eight-cap England international has previously appeared as the show’s ’Dictionary Corner’ guest, memorably solving a numbers round puzzle which had foxed both contestants – including an eventual series semi-finalist – and resident maths expert Rachel Riley.