Chesterfield: water worker scores in boy's garden goal, then knee slides
A Yorkshire Water worker sent to fix a manhole cover was caught on a family's Ring camera doing keepy-uppies, scoring in their son's football net and celebrating with full knee slides. Twice.
In Chesterfield, a family checked their Ring camera and found a Yorkshire Water worker having the match of his life in their back garden.
Homeowner Josh Seward, 37, was at work when his wife texted him: “the water people are playing football and doing knee slides.” The footage, from 10 November, shows the workman – who was there to repair a manhole cover – doing keepy-uppies with a ball, knocking it into the empty net belonging to the couple’s football-mad 10-year-old, and launching into a full knee slide, the Yorkshire Post reports.
AI illustration – the celebration, imagined. Not the actual worker.
Then he did it again. A couple more keepy-uppies, a cheeky “round-the-world” trick, another goal, another celebration.
Josh said he “genuinely couldn’t stop laughing”, and that neither he nor his wife minded one bit, since the job had been done. He posted the clip on X, where it is approaching three million views – and tagged Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona in case any scouts fancied a look.
AI illustration – the moment the video landed, imagined. (Spot Gaz, our gorilla, hiding somewhere in this picture.)
Yorkshire Water took it in good spirit, replying: “An around the world AND a manhole repair? Some serious skills there.” Josh now hopes to track the worker down to tell him how funny it was. The worker has not been named.
Reported by the Yorkshire Post / SWNS (13 Nov 2026). Photo: Malcolmxl5, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Illustrations: Gorilla Gazette / AI-generated.
