The benefits of 5 and 6 a side football are well-known to those of you that play it.

The impact on your fitness (better than a session in the gym, a study found) is legendary.

Then there’s the teamwork, the sharpening of your football skills, well they are given.

But what about the rest of it? The social interaction?

David James, Michael Owen, Wes Brown, Youri Djorkaeff and Emile Heskey would probably be a decent 5 A side team in their own right, but the five international legends all took time out during the recent Star Sixes event at the O2 Arena to tell the Leisure Leagues cameras exactly why it is the best sport in the world.

Only by playing in Leisure Leagues in the largest league network in the world, can you play with these legends.