442oons

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442oons
Born	Dean Stobbart 1981 (age 44–45) Stockton-on-Tees, England
YouTube information
Channel	442oons
Years active	2013–present
Genres	Football comedy parody
Subscribers	4.72 million
Views	4.1 billion
Last updated: 8 August 2026

442oons is an English-language YouTube channel set up by Dean Stobbart that focuses on animated parodies of various football topics. The channel has accumulated over 4.5 million subscribers and more than 4 billion views over its twelve years of activity. He is known for his comedic football animations and songs, one of his most popular works is "The Frontmen" which includes many footballers, for example, Erling Haaland. He is regarded as one of the greatest football creators on YouTube. He also makes parody versions of footballers, for example, Chewy Suarez. Another great work made by him was "MSN Song", which is a song based off of the MSN Barcelona trio in their game against Bayern Munich in the 14/15 season. Sometimes in videos, Dean appears as his own character, for example, the Man City 3 - 1 Man Utd video in 2018, which is a song sung by the parody version of Jose Mourinho.

Stobbart has worked with OneFootball, Bundesliga, and many other football brands to make videos on their channels.

History

The channel's creator, Dean Stobbart, originally a teacher from Norton, County Durham, had in the past been a part-time voice actor who also did some animation for his lessons. He said he saw a gap in the market that "no one had really done football cartoons before", so he made his first animated video, a parody of Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez and then-Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger in a cartoon parody of a scene from The Silence of the Lambs in August 2013. Since then, he has worked with organisations such as Talksport and Sky Sports on animations. His videos have also been featured on Metro and the Spanish Marca. He also has a Facebook account with 1.8 million followers, a TikTok account with 774.6 thousand followers and a Twitter account with 149.6 thousand followers.

Although Stobbart had originally created his videos by himself, he hired three animators, Sam Dunscombe, Mike Myler and James Williams.^{[citation needed]} In 442oons' 3-million-subscribers video in July 2020, Sam confirmed his departure from the channel. Currently with 4 animators, Lauren Bagstaff and Karl Hargreaves are the additional two animators with Myler and Williams.^{[citation needed]}

He also has been in partnership with the Bundesliga YouTube channel (English), OneFootball, The Football Republic (most notably the fictional tabloid talk show: 'The Roy Keane Show'), FREEbets and other YouTube channels.^{[citation needed]}

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