Stallone appears on big screens at Everton

Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone made an unlikely appearance on the big screens at Goodison Park during half-time of Everton's Premier League clash with West Bromwich Albion on Monday.

As one of the world's most famous actors, Stallone is more used to starring on the silver screen, but the 68-year-old's image appeared on the Merseyside club's video boards in a bid to whip up the crowd to provide some background colour for cameras filming a scene in his forthcoming movie 'Creed', in which he reprises his role as boxer Rocky Balboa.

Stallone, who was pictured wearing an Everton shirt, is working on the film with the professional boxer, and Everton supporter, Tony Bellew, who helped arrange the actor's message.

Stallone first visited Goodison eight years ago when he came onto the pitch to wave at supporters before Everton played Reading.

On that occasion he was greeted with a warm reception, but his recorded video message on Monday failed to produce such an enthusiastic response from the Goodison faithful, who were perhaps still miffed that their team's forward Kevin Mirallas had missed a penalty moments earlier.