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Simon Young

"He was centre-half and you didn't go near the man. He was dangerous!" How AC/DC’s Brian Johnson ended up playing on the same football team as Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris stretching in a sports kit and Brian Johnson performing with AC/DC in Brisbane.

Imagine this: it’s 1983 and you’re Brian Johnson. We've all done it. You’re standing under the lights at Florence’s Stadio Comunale in front of 25,000 screaming fans. The only thing is, you’re not singing for AC/DC. You’ve somehow been selected for the United States of America versus Italy charity football match, and you’ve just watched your teammate Chuck Norris get a red card for being “too dangerous”.

It sounds like something you’d dream of following a night on the Brown Ale, but for Johnson, this was just another day off on tour.

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