The Portsmouth striker vowed never to perform the dance at Wembley again, but did when Ferdinand shouted at him "to pull the rope".

He was apeing a spoof sketch on Comic Relief by actor James Corden, who played a football-mad plumber.

In the sketch, Cordon's plumber stumbled upon a group of England players at their pre-match training camp and dishes out advice to all and sundry.

He told Crouch to abandon the robot move and do a "pull-the-rope" mime dance instead.