IT’S one of the most iconic moments of British TV – Only Fools and Horses character Del Boy Trotter falling through the bar whilst ‘playing it nice and cool’.

But for one unlucky Accrington reveller, comedy meets reality as he crashes to the floor at The Arden Inn.

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CCTV footage, which has gone viral, captures the hilarious moment the Abbey Street pub’s pool table is moved seconds before Accy’s ‘Del Boy’, named locally as Matthew Hartley, falls to the floor.

The video, uploaded by landlord Mark Duxbury, has already had over 15,000 views on Facebook and 7,000 views on YouTube.

The footage shows the moment Matt leans back against the pool table – which had been moved just seconds earlier.

He falls back onto the floor throwing his drink over his shoulder.

He steadily gets back to his feet before being applauded by his friends and given a hug.

He can then be seen gesturing to the spot where he thought that the pool table was – or wasn’t as the case may be!

Mark, who has run the pub for around a year, said: “It’s a regular called Matt. We’d moved the pool table on Sunday night to make way for the band that evening and he just didn’t realise it had gone.

“I was upstairs at the time but everyone was talking about it so I played it back on the CCTV and thought it was that funny I uploaded it to my Facebook page.

“It’s just like Only Fools and Horses.

“Everyone was calling him Del Boy all night.

“He’d only had about three pints in here and thankfully he wasn’t injured.

“He will probably get a round of applause next time he comes in.”

Mark said a number of national newspaper had been in touch and the footage may even be featured on Have I Got News for You and America’s ABC News.

The Only Fools And Horses episode, Yuppy Love, which features Del’s fall, was nominated in the UKTV Gold Top 40 Greatest Only Fools Moments, and subsequently voted the most popular scene of the entire programme.

It was also named seventh Greatest Television Moment of all time in a 1999 Channel 4 poll, beating the likes of President Kennedy’s assassination, the Queen’s coronation and Winston Churchill’s funeral.