THE 1% Club viewers were left in awe as a “genius” footballer bagged an incredible £100,000 for charity.

Lee Mack presented a Soccer Aid special of the popular ITV quiz show – and one former ace stood out.

A star-studded lineup including Jill Scott, Iain Stirling, Paddy McGuinness and Tommy Fury made up the 100 contestants vying to win the huge £100,000 jackpot for Unicef.

But by the 1% question there were just two contenders remaining.

These were former footballer Clarke Carlisle – who played for QPR, Watford and Leeds – and comedian and ex-Soccer AM host, Lloyd Griffith.

Having reached the final question, Clarke and Lloyd had already won £10,000 for Unicef – and as the footballer also still had his pass intact another £1,000 was added to the guaranteed amount.

Unlike the regular show, the £11,000 was not in jeopardy and was guaranteed whatever happened.

But now it was their chance to secure the HUGE jackpot for the Soccer Aid charity.

Lee asked the pair: “In the opening verse to the original version of Three Lions, what TWO words feature exactly three times in the lyrics?”

The lyrics were shown on screen as a reference as they tried to figure out the answer in 30 seconds.

Here’s what they were show:

Everyone seems to know the score, they’ve seen it all before
They just know, they’re so sure
That England’s gonna throw it away, gonna blow it away
But I know they can play, ’cause I remember…

So did you spot the repetitive words in just 30 seconds?

When it came time to answer, Lloyd, 41, admitted he’d misread the question.

Meanwhile, Clarke, 45, offered up “it” and “know” as his answer to the puzzle.

It was soon revealed that Clarke was correct – and had bagged a whopping £100,000 for Unicef.

Fans took to X and sang the star’s praises, with one penning: “Clarke Carlisle you Brainiac!! Well done!”

Another shared: “Absolutely delighted for Clarke! Always had a brilliant brain – but came close to losing him!”

A third added: “Clarke Carlisle is a genius!!”

Not every contestant is as lucky – as a tricky alphabet question in the regular show knocked out 18 players.

Contestants were shown four words and asked to spot the one that does not contain three consecutive letters from the alphabet.

The options were, Unopenable, Understandable, Unquestionable, and Undefineable.

The answer turned out to be C, Unquestionable.

Unopenable contains ‘NOP’, and Understandable also hides ‘RST’ and Undefineable includes ‘DEF’.

The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.