CLASSIC CLIPS: Duncan Ferguson's CLASH with Beckham & His AGGRESSIVE Match Mentality

0:00Duncan Ferguson: I'd love to just be a fly on the wall with, sort of in your office or when you're in control, of like your management style. Because the player that you was and like the fuse that you've probably had and probably you've still got now, how do you react or how did you react with the players, like the current players? Because we know what they like, they've got egos, they're prima donnas.

0:21Peter Crouch: Can I spin it back a wee bit, right? How do you think I reacted? You tell me the truth. How do you think I reacted to my players? well so from an outside just how you think yeah so from the outside

0:32Duncan Ferguson: people would think the personality you've got it would be it would be very much sort of I'm in charge you know and players would probably be sort of fearful or scared but I could you can see a sense that there's probably a an empathy side for you that players can really relate to as well

0:49Peter Crouch: well yeah partly that you're right I think you should probably be a bit worried to say it people think I'm aggressive aggressive I'm not going to be aggressive in the best do you think that's because of your personality I'm not a shouter I'm not a screamer I'm not aggressive right so I've never screamed shouted on a youth development when I'd come through the 12s you can't shout at them I mean I wouldn't the 18s I worked my way through the academy system I worked my way into Everton as a coach as a first team coach as an assistant as a manager I've had two jobs now and I've never raised my voice I've hardly ever if I've raised my voice I've raised it a bit louder than I'm raising it now I don't think you need to raise your voice as a manager I think if the players love you respect you you'll get the best out of you you'll get the best out of them every great manager I've worked under has had the same so if I worked under God bless him Walter Smith who was the ex-Rangers manager never raised his voice very rarely maybe once a year maybe once every two years because you had respect for the man he was a gentleman you tried your very best for him Carlo Angelotti the same Howard Kendall the same all the most successful managers were calm and mostly quiet and the players loved them and respected them so respect seems

2:05Duncan Ferguson: to be the theme that runs through it I guess the only thing I would love to see from a big dunk team would be the team just refusing to do the handshakes at the start and then we'd know you'd arrived

2:15Peter Crouch: yeah we've got a few fines here but what we'll say is don't get me wrong before the players get on their pitch they know who they're playing for they know what's needed you know one of my teams at Everton the first game I played Chelsea when we beat them 3-1 they made 37 challenges or tackles in that game which was a record over 10 years at Everton Football Club so my first game for Everton they were fired up, they were aggressive my teams are aggressive

2:43Duncan Ferguson: they're aggressive on a football pitch

2:45Peter Crouch: weigh the ball, off the ball as well and weigh the ball I'm a possession coach, I play possession I like the possession stats, I like to build through the pitch and that's I've done it all the way through my academy I did it in my two clubs that I've been at so I like to play the possession and the football but the players also know that hey you're playing for me you know what I mean it's what fans want as well I think sometimes

3:07Duncan Ferguson: you know obviously it's very I think well trodden ground this that one of the biggest annoyances from a fan point of view is when you feel that the team aren't playing for your club for your badge that you love and I think there's a kind of trust with you between the fans that you would go into a team and at least instil that yeah

3:28Peter Crouch: yeah I mean as I said my team's got to run the hardest got to run the hardest all the best teams run the hardest and that's it so you've got to they've got stats now haven't they they're stats for everything now and you make sure they've all got and you make sure you're running the hardest you know and your duels and for the fans on the terrace you've got to be winning your duels you've got to be winning your challenges winning your headers and maybe that's one of the reasons why I was loved as well because I never went down I got hurt plenty of times I got cut to pieces I got charms I got headbutts I got elbows I got up I got up if I was hurt I got to the side of the pitch never once did I get a physio on the pitch to me not once my whole career would I let any physio come on the pitch to me and that kind of gets you with the fans didn't you big dunks invincible I'm not sure that is what's your point but I'm not really am I it's just the way it was

4:18Duncan Ferguson: I played up to it there must be there must be certain things the anger you in today's game though when you if you're not shaking hands with people before the game how do you feel about people swapping shirts at half time

4:29Peter Crouch: for instance well maybe not half time but I tell you I wish I'd bloody done it myself honestly what a great thing I mean back in your day you never even thought about it but you know what a great thing what a great thing imagining Peter Crouchy's shirt coming up to you big man and saying Peter can I get your shirt maybe you'd want mine you probably would you could give it to your dad couldn't you so you know but what a great thing you have David Beckham you know I blanked David Beckham I blanked him he come up to me he shake my hand I say getty fuck do you know it's like David Beckham getty fuck David Beckham icon I couldn't release his boots I'm a world class player yeah but you know what you're doing

5:15Duncan Ferguson: you're doing battle

5:16Peter Crouch: aren't you right I'm just playing up to that stupid thing isn't I I don't shake people Do you regret that though? Say, tell David Beckham to get to fuck. Oh my God, he just looked at me, you know what I mean? And he was on the pitch like this, don't, I walked away, fuck off. God damn it, I wish I met him new, I'd be dying, I'd be dying to shut off. And he'd be blanky mean, wouldn't he? And he'd be saying, who's that? I'm trying to think of that, I'm trying to think of that hot chocolate song. I can't remember that hot chocolate song. But would it be great

5:48Duncan Ferguson: if he's remembered that and he gets that one chance to tell you to get get to get to four sorry I can't put my hand up was that Scottish it was yeah