Salah Says He’s “Gone” – The Lads React To CARNAGE Interview & Break Down England’s World Cup Group

0:00This podcast is part of the Acast Creator Network. so if you haven't already please subscribe to this channel because uh we've got some giveaways some prizes uh and if you haven't subscribed you won't be entered um it does help the pod and um if you want us to continue to grow do what's right hello and welcome to that peter crouch podcast with me peter crouch and notorious ssid and chris stark everyone okay good yeah um if i'm honest at the time recording i'm a little bit shattered busy weekend i was hosting the uh the Jingle Bell Ball that we do with Capital. It was a lot of fun. I saw you there, Crouchy.

0:39I was there, yeah. Yeah, I had a really nice time. Kids loved it. I gave you a little wave at one point. Sid, so I looked over and I could see him in the crowd. And I'm only ever used to seeing Crouchy with a pint. Yeah. And he's there with a little... I was like, what's that? What's that he's drinking? I see his little hand going in and out. He's got a little cup of Pick 'em Box. Love it. Love it. if you're going to enjoy it enjoy it properly if you're going to do it do it by being disciplined I was disciplined very disciplined I noticed I was slightly hungover from night four were you? yeah hence the pick-a-mix yeah did you enjoy it?

1:14I had a lovely time really nice yeah and the kids loved it they always do Ed Sheeran said he'd caught up with you as well he did yeah yeah well Ed knows knows his manager's wife really well so we and you know we've met Ed a good few times so we ended up we ended up in his dressing room yeah nice which was nice, good to see him. Didn't come visit me, did you? But there we go. No, no, no. I did see you though. I did see you. Is it full on? You're too busy. I was going to say, is it full on for you? Like even like when the acts are on, is it still a case of what, you need to be in this position and you're like, there's someone close in your ear?

1:47You do all the interviews sort of backstage as well. There's a lot kind of going on there and then occasionally you come out and introduce whoever's next. But what was Ed saying? I don't know, he was good, mate. Yeah, he's actually been to the game that day, I think, because he saw Frank Vampire because he was Coventry manager and Ipswich won they did so yeah that's what he was saying yeah it was a couple of funky results Coventry have been flying in the championship recently as well do you know there's really good energy there as well like I saw I saw a great video of the Enemy performing I don't know live and die in these towns is one of my all time favourites it's a great album and obviously it's a great song and I think when your team's flying as well and suddenly that the song fires up and you've got a bit of an anthem to rally around.

2:31It feels exciting. I don't know, sometimes music at the football can be a little bit wonky, can't it? Yeah. Like a live band. You have to get it right. It can go a bit American, I think, with the lights in the... Talking of things going American, actually, Jamie just brought something to my attention about the Bundesliga are going to put debuts on shirts of players making their debuts. Is that correct? I don't know if you think that's utter woke nonsense or not so they're following the MLS MLS do it yeah is that a bit like you know Will on the Inbetweeners on his first day and he has that green sticker and it's like hi my name is Will yeah feels a bit like that isn't it is that okay because the game's gone is that another one we should have a chart we should have a board right and if things like this come on we should just whack it up just why the game's gone yeah and then just add to it as time goes by yeah we should do that that's a lovely idea I like that a lot it's really good it's a little bored and we just yeah there's another reason yeah yeah because there's been a few well I don't know for me I don't understand the point of it like why who does that benefit why you wouldn't want a badge is it just a kind of badge of honour like it's like you know that was my first ever game that shirt oh so then you keep the shirt after it it's like a momentum yeah you tell me would you like that well I've got my debut shirt I've got my but I think everyone's got every footballer must have it doesn't need to say debut on it but it doesn't need to be special no no but yeah whack it on the board let's get it on the board what's this here Chris well speaking of boards I got given this present here this is a bit of an odd one right but it feels rigid so I got given this present I was collecting my little boy from school and dad came up to me in the playground and said i've loved the podcast um can i give you this present i've made this for you and the boys and i went to open it and he was like no no no don't open it you can't open it here um so i said well that's absolutely fine i'll bring it along to the podcast i've brought it on today you boys open it there's a little card says dear chris pete and sid love the pod it's been great having you lot in my ears whilst throwing paint around my sign studio wishing a very happy christmas and the kindest regards to your families um and this is from i don't want to get your name wrong he's a brazilian fan um so it's it's michael da silva or michelle da silva or michael da silva um but anyway do you want to open it i genuinely don't know what this is but i have my suspicions as to why he didn't want me to open it in the playground do you see what I mean I've got some suspicions here

5:26is it what we think

5:38so here we go it's a sign Fanny Fart Lane leading to Dubious Drive I didn't see the back of it oh no have you seen the back of it no honestly

5:53you can't be giving this stuff in the playground that's why he said no no not here not here not here so yeah for our audio listeners he says Fanny Fart Lane on the front leading to dubious drive minge meadows on the back

6:13just don't even know I don't know how did Fanny Fartley even come about what's one of the messages I've got to say it looks like good quality really good quality it's like nice and it's heavy as well well we can put that up in the Chumba one bar and thank you so much for the sign it's a good quality sign that and also we should say you know the Chumba one bar we're getting loads of stuff here now it's all if you do want to send something in that you'd like to kind of you know potentially put up in the bar or if you've got a talent like this you know and can perfect just above your head there for the rest of the record can that stay there I don't know if it can can it probably can I don't know

7:06do you know one other thing as well I saw recently I met someone remember we did Jose Enrique's shoes I remember he's nothing we can somehow we ended up with Jose Enrique's shoes silver yeah I met the guy that went out in them yeah so they had a great night we gave him the Jose Enrique experience remember well he just came up to me and said I was the one my mate went out in Jose's shoes brilliant oh also just whilst we're on any other business Angry Ginger's one I know I'm a celeb as well he's a good lad great I think we're going to try get him on the pod sometime soon I know he's a big fan of this podcast it well he's done well he was good do you like him yeah I've got to be honest I didn't know a lot about him beforehand but after watching it he's likeable could be a rebrand for you couldn't it horny ginge funny yeah funny horny ginge

8:09okay well yeah listen an interesting week you know I wasn't far off of my prediction with Leeds Liverpool do you remember you gave me a bit of grief there it was 0-0 was it up half time yeah 2-0 obviously they got it back Leeds but yeah obviously the most sadder stuff after the game was a mad one he's obviously just come out and wanted to air it which I you know I'm not sure I completely agree with no shame but he has been such a class player it does seem weird seeing him on the bench for three games as well and it feels like that that relationship is definitely fractured so so Jamie Carragher was like obviously the other week can't just be Van Dyke coming out doing the the post-match interviews and this and that I think he felt was like he's just had to come out and there's an agenda behind it this for sure I don't agree with what he's done he's on the bench he's saying like he's been thrown under the bus and just like, just come out and just say, I'm not performing to the standards I am.

9:20I mean, the relationship with me and the manager is not great, but listen, I'll come into training tomorrow. I'll try hard and, you know, when I get a chance, I'll just get back to how I'm playing. But he can't be thinking that he is performing at the standard. It can't be a standard that he wants, right? So that's the agreeable thing there. He feels like he makes special attention. He shouldn't be on the bench. He's been poor. So you're right. that maybe the hardest thing for him seems to be just coming out and being, sort of saying out loud what is probably in his brain at the moment. But he feels like he needs special treatment because of what he's done for that football club in recent years.

9:55And listen, what he has done is unbelievable. And he'll go down as one of the greats to play in the Premier League. But you cannot do that, what he's come out and said. You can't do that, especially with Liverpool as well. I think after a game like that, like, it's just the wrong time to speak, you know, like, your emotions are running high you know you haven't played yeah and I've been there myself and you think like you just you haven't you haven't played or you haven't come on or something like that and say someone else gets on ahead of me and I'm like I've been fuming boiling but you've just got to bite your lip I think but it felt like it was calculated and it was like I need to tell everyone this but even the bit where he says about they play yeah but they play against Brighton is it Brighton He said the Brighton.

10:39And I'll say goodbye before I go. Obviously, I'll wait on the trip. Have you seen the video? Have you seen the video of him doing it? I have. I don't want to misquote even slightly what he said. This is the thing. But he mentions AFCON. So, to be honest, I've not been able to see much football this weekend with work and that. I've seen the little clips that are doing the rounds and I've seen some stuff that's written. When he mentions AFCON, is he sort of insinuating that he might go to AFCON and just not come back? Not come back. well read into it how you will but he says I'll say my goodbyes and then I'm off to the AFCON and then that goes into January doesn't it into the transfer window but have you seen the video have you seen the video of him doing it with the press officer behind I've seen a sort of grainy video of him doing it oh my gosh the Liverpool press officers behind oh really and when he says when he says I've been thrown under the bus the press officer's face he does he actually he knows what's coming and he keeps doing it as well and he's oh he's bad I couldn't believe the way it just went on and on but that's what happens the thing is where everyone's got a camera and it's not just in the post-match interviews that you can speak to players now it's not the only outlet for them and whether it was considered before or not I think we've got to get used to the idea that players are allowed to it's kind of what we want isn't it for them to be honest about how they're feeling and how they're...

12:07And yeah, you're not going to like everything you hear a lot of the time, but this is going to be an interesting thing I think we're going to see more and more of. And maybe it's a good thing. Yeah, but I just think with that, this has got to tarnish his image with Liverpool, with the Liverpool players, with the club, no players bigger than the club. He's not said that, has he? He's not said... I know you can infer that from what he said because he's basically saying like, this isn't good enough for me so I'm off but he's not said he's bigger than the club I don't think I don't think he would think that no I'm not I'm saying no player is bigger than the club but he's basically what he's saying is that he's like he's had broken promises he's been lied to he's been thrown under the bus you know the black and white of it is he's not been playing well and he's been put on the bench grab a pair of balls and you know just perform better and then get back in the team as simple as that like every other player has to do no?

13:01no no you can't just grow him you know you've either got two scenes here alright okay sorry still saw something okay one quick one as well just because I I was at the game the Arsenal-Villa game um Arsenal lost obviously you know they looked good game invincible didn't they I suppose and then if ever it was going to be a team it was like Villa at home have been unbelievable recently their record is frightening yeah um you could see it coming I mean, good game. Just a little bit off it, Arsenal, and a great game of football, could have gone either way, and then, yeah, just great finish at the end.

13:40I was watching it in a pub in Soho, and the amount of fans, I say fans, the amount of people that cheered the Villa win. But what a goal. In Soho. Man, isn't it? Yeah. People don't want Arsenal to win the league, obviously. Oh, I see. I thought you were making this a Soho thing. No, no, no, I was just watching the pub, and I thought, you're thinking in London, there'd be, yeah, yeah. Well, So yeah, I think it's the manner in which Villa are playing at the moment as well. And how exciting. And they had those couple of chances to score. And it was just this unrelenting pressure on that last goal that I really loved about it.

14:14They didn't at any point in that whole routine give up. And they had a far easier chance. And they still managed to get in. What a fucking moment though. It was an unbelievable moment. And you know where it pans to Emery as well. like you've got you've got to love his reactions in these moments like yeah do you know so I'm standing right so we go and watch the game in the studio and then we come down and I'm basically standing in the stand when they scored it and I'm not joking everyone ran down from the stand into where we were brilliant and just kind of like I was getting a scarf wrapped around my face like I was fully in the crowd yeah it was me and me and Ali and Lindsay, it was a moment, to be fair.

14:59It felt like it was a fucking big moment. Loud. So loud, yeah. You missed them once. That is their big... Scoring a goal, or when a goal goes in for your team, especially the last minute winner, is the biggest drug. Yeah. Like, how you can't get up for that, or the come down from that is massive. I hope every Villa fan had a really good Saturday after that. How can you... It's a perfect way to kick on to you. You can see your plans on that one, don't you? You're out. Do you know another one as well, friend of the podcast, Lando Norris as well, won the world championship. Obviously, the minute he come on the pod, he's gone on to better things.

15:38Well, we claimed this at the start, didn't we? Well, yeah, we've claimed it. Yeah, well, we said, you know. And he's done it. He's gone and done it. We'll get Lando on again, I'm sure, very, very soon. Without that. For his victory lap. Yeah, well done. Okay, so we were a little bit poor this week, lads. I got the one point. I think it was who got the Chris got three I got the one point you got the three point there with two nil Arsenal-Brentford which puts you ahead of me Sid you got two points that's just standard for you now isn't it Sid's on 38 pulling away and then Chris on 31 and me on 30 but it's two in and fro really if you regularly listen to this podcast please every now and then just check the maths because I'm not totally convinced that Sid should be so far ahead there and I don't want to don't want to do you guys dirty but it's it doesn't seem to shrink the gap.

16:26Yeah. Now, what you're saying is you trust people on Instagram or Twitter rather than our own team. We're honest here. But only on the maths. You know what I mean? These guys are the best in the business. But when it comes to maths... You're not sure? I'm dubious. It's not their strong point.

16:55This next part of the podcast supported by Pony Powell. Get away. Chelsea. How will I know that? This little sign here, Chris, right behind me. Oh yeah, I see. It's Chelsea versus Everton. The odds are Chelsea are 4-7, Everton 9-2. Strong favourites here, Chelsea. Yeah, Chelsea at home. Disappointing result. Was it the last game? Bournemouth? it was at Bournemouth wasn't it Chelsea there were two really good ones before that Champions League was one of them wasn't it interesting well yeah it was brilliant against Barcelona it was great Everton I've won four of the last five yeah have you put it out there to the masses I've whacked it out there mate so I'm just having a quick look here we'll get a few names David Vela Jacob Evans Declan Dunning Double D Double D Double D Double D Straight in I'll be looking at What Horny Horny Ginge Horny Ginge sees double D's Oh god Horny Ginge You don't want that to stick Do you mate No No Take it out It's not This is not sticking Oh god It can't These things They do have a tendency I've got Ryan Bassett here.

18:23Finley Gundry. There's some great names this week. Josh Bolt. Let's go for the, what was his name? The double D's here. Declan Dunning. Greetings lads. Regards to your families. Here's predictions for the games. I will go with Declan, whatever he says here as well. He's going to go Chelsea Everton. He's gone for Desmond. He's gone for 2-0. I think that's a good shout, you know. Could be Golbs in that. I've just seen a stat though. Everton haven't beaten Chelsea away in the Premier League since November 1994. Is that when the Premier League started? So literally, that must have been the first, 93, 94 was the first?

19:0692, wasn't it? 92, 93. I don't see them getting anything from this. I'm going to go with Chelsea 2-0. I remember I was at Chelsea when Tim Keogh scored the overhead kick. that to equalise then was it it must have been hmm you're going to go 2-0 Chelsea yeah you're going 2-2 I'm going to go 2-2 yeah I think that's that's not happening 2-2 what the draw nah I'm really pleased you're going to go with that that's not happening 2-2 I mean that's that's unbelievable confidence in yourself that's it he's on fire but you are ahead okay no I fancy Chelsea win I want to go with three it's David Moyzo isn't it he's a bit pragmatic 3-1 Chelsea okay we're going to do Paddy's boost we each pick a leg of the CrouchPod bet builder the odds on that bet builder would be boosted by 20 % put on the special section of Paddy Power's website and app I'm going to go a player to score first Cole Palmer he's back in the mix isn't he yep Yep, that's a good shout.

20:19Where are we? Okay, yeah, player to be carded. Shall we go Dewsbury Hall? Okay, player to have two or more shots on target. Friend of the pod, Jack Grealish. Yes, okay. Odds are correct at the time of recording. Please gamble responsibly. Right, I'm going to move on to the 5.30 kickoff at Turf Moor. Burnley versus Fulham.

20:40Doesn't jump off the page this game, does it? No. Well, they're both, I mean, you know, both in position where are Fulham at the moment so I done Fulham didn't I yesterday against Palace they lost on Sunday how were they do you know what they actually played they played better than what I have seen this season and they scored an unbelievable goal by the way Harry Wilson what a goal but their next run of games is I'm sure it's Burnley Mo Forest and West Ham or it might be Wolves it's three of them that are down there. That's a big next few weeks for Fulham. And Burnley as well, which is a big game this.

21:22Do you think as you get to Christmas and you hear a lot of the kind of manager chat, I think with Burnley, it feels to me that Scott Parker, they back him enough and he talks with a kind of confidence in his post-match interviews that suggests that he has that backing. Or it might just be how he's kind of presenting it outwardly. I don't feel the same noise around him that you get with some of the other managers at the bottom. Is that fair? Yeah, no, agreed. I think most people expected, you know, it's just the fact that Sunderland and Leeds are doing well, really. Everyone fancied them all to go back down.

22:00Fair play to Sunderland. I mean, unbelievable, haven't they? Mid-fire. Yeah, brilliant. I think Fulham nicked this. I'm going to go 1-0. I'm going to go the other way. I actually think and I reckon it'll be the same here on Instagram I reckon it'll be sort of 50-50 Lamar was that a Lamar song? was it really? what about now is 50-50 was that big in footballing circles that song? I like Lamar I do as well I like the song what was that other one? if there's any justice in the world I would be your man can I just say by the way I came to your Jingle Bell Ball Five Talk me through that Oh Mega right God absolute bangers That's how you do it Yeah well we wanted five For Crouch Fest one year Didn't we I think we could only get Four of them So we didn't do it It was like We could only get Four of them Four of the buggers

23:02Well I know Scott from Five He's You know Has been a day one Really with this podcast He's always been Do you remember He was one of the Didn't he come along to the Samrat? Didn't we have a voice note from him? I think he came to the Samrat. There was something like that. He might well have come to the Samrat, yeah. He's definitely come to a Crouchfest. But yeah, it'd be great to get the lads together. Although I feel like this podcast, we've started to have a sort of live music element added to it. We've had Barry, of course, from EastEnders, and we've had Miles Kane performing the Chumper One bar.

23:33Barry sang the lesser spotted Vanarama theme. Vanarama! you know some of the things we do on this pod you just forget how much we've done Barry sang the theme tune we've got a theme tune for a Vanorama and he just came in just to do that and then just popped out again to the tune of Man in the Mirror it was the man in the middle man in the middle man in the middle so yeah look let's try and get all of five in the Chumbawamba for an exclusive performance or at least four of the buggers yeah it was good full energy Sid so I would say with five love the energy it was good did you enjoy it mate alright okay what are you going for 1-0 Fulham 1-0 Fulham I'm going to go 2-1 Burnley okay I want to go 0-0 this game fucking 0 that's never been done never on this pod I went for it a couple of weeks ago didn't I nowhere near it what was it 4-3 5-4 4 half time dare I say it to make 0-0s exciting you should get a bonus point I think you should as well if you go for it I'll take it no no I do agree.

24:39Okay, let's move on to Crystal Palace versus Manchester City. There's been some interesting games here with Palace and City, isn't there? Yeah. Over the years. Yeah. Who's it called, the volley? Townsend. Do you remember the volley? Andros Townsend. Andros Townsend. That was away, wasn't it? Yeah. What time is this game? This one's on a Sunday because Palace are playing in Europe on Thursday, so this would have been moved from Saturday to Sunday. they've really struggled Palace when they've come back from Europe yeah because they haven't got the biggest of squads is it that's what it is he tends to play 12-30 players that's it did you hear the manager comments after I think it was the United game yeah he said about you know not getting a squad a big enough squad not having the backing of the owner did he get any repercussions for that I think so not really and he's up at the end of the year not signing the new deal so there's a little bit of a stance there going on mad game the Fulham game recently with City wasn't it 5 yeah 5-4 yeah proving there are frailties I would say defensively but still bringing that forward and they've got Erling Haaland but Palace they I think they conceded that Fulham goal was the first goal they conceded in six games six games really you think Arsenal are going well defensively Palace six games without conceding a goal yeah yeah brilliant Palace are a bit of a bogey team for them aren't they Palace at home as well I'm going to back Palace every chance yeah yeah go on then it's 2-1 or 3-1 I'll get I will get criticised for going missionary on this one again but points are important so I'm going to go 2-1 play our way

26:33do you know what this is actually look at this this is a huge game for Man City if they want to win the league they can't lose this game so I'm going to back Man City 2-0 or 2-1 for Man City I'm going to go 2-1 Man City 2-1 Man City I'm going to go 3-1 Man City yeah this episode of That Peer Crouch Podcast is sponsored by Quick Fit yeah can't believe it windows crept in dark mornings icy roads, everyone flying around doing their Christmas shopping. It's exactly the time of year when you want to know your car is safe and running properly. That's why QuickFit are offering a free vehicle safety check, quick, easy, and a proper way to look after the family when the cold really does hit.

27:15It got me thinking. Some of the best memories I've had have been road trips, especially at Christmas. Any Christmas road trips for you? I remember, for me personally, driving up to my grand's. lived in Maccasfield and we used to drive up from London and that's when I knew it was Christmas time should I mean it'd be like Christmas Eve or the day before Christmas Eve it is a dark kind of cold journey and that I see where all the lights were on when I was getting close and it's a nice place up there as well as like in the kind of countryside it was a real Christmasy buzz yeah I know what you mean and especially that time of year it's really festive I remember we'd go as a family would go up to Leeds to visit some of my family that were up there.

28:00And I always got excited when you saw, is it the Meadow Hall in Sheffield right by the motorway? And you'd see that all lit up. It's the one they use in the Full Monty for some of the scenes in there. Oh, yeah. But I'd always spot that and know I'm not too far away from Leeds and would love that. But my dad was always so strict in the car. He just wanted complete silence for the road trip. Oh, really? And it was stress. Because you'd have me and my brother and sister in the back and then you start arguing and I just remember the stress around it, being quiet. I go the other way. I've turned the tunes up now.

28:33Yeah. iPads for the kids. Yeah, we do one to France every other year for skiing just after Christmas and we do it with another family and we've done a wicked idea, this one, where the other family, we meet at like four o 'clock in the morning at the service station and they pull up beside us and he goes, my friend goes, Bobby, he says got a surprise and he gives me a walkie talkie and then we had the walkie talkies in each other's car on the way to France that's a car no way it's so good isn't it so we're going he's like yeah I think we might need a wee stop superb you can't have lunch he's so good superb walkie talkies on the way to France go on there we go yeah that is great yeah good okay well to avoid any chaos you want QuickFit with QuickFit you can get winter car checks sorted keeping everything running smoothly.

29:26It means more adventures, more moments together, fewer stresses or surprises on the road. It's not just another thing on the to-do list. It's a small act of care to make sure you and your family can enjoy those safe, happy journeys all winter long. Right, so we had the World Cup draw. Don't know what we make of the World Cup draw, what we made of the actual performance of the draw. and kind of World Cup memories, aspirations, what we want to do as a podcast. Take it away. So a bit to go at here. So, well, why don't we start with the World Cup draw? Because we should talk about it. A lot of people are talking about it.

30:06Firstly, did you get asked to host it? No. I think your hat should be in the ring on somebody's gigs. A hundred percent, man. Rio, as an actor, is some of the stuff he was doing? thoughts mate it's just tough gig I think there's a lot going on the fact that the village people played surprised me the fact that Donald Trump was dancing to it I just felt there was a hell of a lot going on yeah yeah and um I don't yeah I think we'll leave should we leave it there yeah stick it on stick it on the board game's gone it did take a while the draw I think Jonathan Pierce's commentary where he he basically says you know and hopefully the draw will take place before the world cup begins in june and it was sort of fair like and it's a bit of a marker i think for what the world cup is obviously going to be like and a bit of a flavor about some of the madness that i think we're going to have there from the kind of peace prize that donald trump received to i don't know the use of of actors i guess in all of the stuff that's going to be happening during this world I think it will be good I think it'll be a great World Cup I know that you know it's kind of very American but the World Club Championship I thought was was actually well done and I think it'll be an amazing World Cup yeah I really do I think our group is get out of the ball but difficult Croatia are always a problem for us I think Ghana's going to be a difficult game Palermo we should we should win I think we'll get out of the group but the route to the final is going to be difficult i think i mean now the dust has settled on that draw it's actually even just looking there at the draw and the different groups it's actually really exciting it makes you be it makes me go back to when i was a kid and just seeing all the flags the names and then the groups like it doesn't change and i love it i love it it's actually really exciting now now you're beginning to see the um logistics and the locations as well where games are going to be be played and times as well are we lacking a group of death?

32:19That was always the phrase that was there. I guess with this way of doing it, I don't know if there is. France, Senegal, Norway, that's up there. Yeah, France, Senegal, Norway at the moment and a winner of playoff two. That's a tough group. Yeah. Yeah, then look at that. That looks like it's the toughest. But yeah, what do we make of the timing as well? Because when we play, it's 9, is it 9pm here? they're all 9pm so 9pm 9pm 10pm and poor Scotland to play at 2am show me here sure the Scots won't mind that really yeah 2am their game's on is this normal is that what has this been done before well we were there at night before were we is this normal do you mean they're playing at 2 o 'clock in the morning well not there obviously oh no here yeah great I was worried that they'd sorted the whole timings around sort of where it's good for the whole world to be seeing.

33:21I was like, they're asking a lot, this tournament. Okay. Well, okay. I think, you know, it's going to be interesting whether the pubs will stay open, you know, later because of it. I think they've just been said that they, they are when the games are on. They're going to be allowed to stay open later. Yeah. It's exciting. We've got like, I think the games, what, Dallas, Boston, and New Jersey. Yeah. Right. Yeah. do we want to be out there for it bloody hell what a question well yes is this hypothetical or is it we're just doing some wooden talks about what we do as a pod where I'd like to hear maybe from the from the listeners what do you want us to do do you want us here do you want us out there do you want to Crouch Fest USA do you want should we go to the games yeah could even go on a little road trip yeah we've floated some ideas around haven't we I mean yeah I mean to go there would be brilliant it'd be a great experience the different stadiums I mean the Cowboy Stadium wow we could even do a bus a road trip I like this idea because I think whatever we do we should be passing the pod wherever we go so if we were to entertain say the idea of a road trip it sort of works you know we can travel to maybe where some of these games are in America could they barbecue out the back of their vans?

34:47Yeah, well, there you go. Maybe you could have a little barbecue thing. Was that tailgate? Tailgate party. Tailgate, yeah. Yeah, there you go. You'd be perfect for it as well. You could rub your meat all over America. And then we've got, it could be a sort of, then we've got a nice sort of American version of Vanarama, haven't we? Like three of us in front of a van. Amazing. Something a little bit Jolly Boys outing from OnlyFolves. I like it. I quite like it. Well, it might be nice just to get to the games, not even go in there, just barbecue outside it. and just see if you like the podcast because we do get quite a lot of messages from people who listen around the world so what we we're throwing ideas into that so we're possibly thinking about going to the games we're possibly thinking about maybe setting up shop in one location and they're just doing something all ideas if anyone's coming up with any ideas that you want us to do or send them in I don't remember the email address anymore yeah peter.crouch.acast.com or of course you can speak to us on the social drop us a comment online on YouTube or any of the social channels we do have let us know let us know if you're going out there as well let's see how many people are actually thinking about because people book up their flights and stuff now so aren't they early to get it done yeah yeah okay yeah any little ideas feel free to pile into the brainstorm I don't know is there anything that you know now you're sort of retired from football pete is there anything that you want to do that you because a lot of your life's been taken up by playing in these world cups you know what i mean for the playing internationally and that traveling around was there anything as a kid that you you want to do that we you know that i did this great thing where we had to complete a sticker album a world cup sticker album and i basically had to go and find the players that i didn't have and go and get a picture with them and stick them in do you what i mean and it felt like i was sort of solving something from my youth nice it was it was well fun shiny sticker yeah it was a good mission you know like maybe we need like if you're firing into the brainstorms and you want to send us on a little mission around the world cup what could that be that's maybe the question we're asking as well i just think about the players as well like when they're going into a world cup now like what the buzz was like i was lucky enough to go to two of them and the feeling of just getting called up number one and then you just never know what you know is going to come out you know I'm thinking now that it's one of those players in the England squad could get the winner in a World Cup final you know that could could change their life forever in one moment I'm literally just daydreaming about his own out no I wasn't saying anything.

37:34No, no. You used to, I was having a date dream about packing the night before, like, for the World Cup. You're packing to go into, you're going to the World Cup. Yeah. You always said you didn't have to pack anything, didn't you? No, I mean, we got like a care package. I remember the South Africa World Cup, I remember there was like, our name was kind of above the bed. It was like a shirt. And then you had some action shots of you in the room. That's cool, isn't it? It was all set up, because Rustenberg was kind of, it was geared up just for the World Cup, you know, they built it, I think, for us.

38:09Big compound. It was a bit mad, really. Because you had everything on site. Well, that's going to be a bit strange, isn't it? Because they're actually now moving from, like you stayed at the same place. So now this one, they're going to be moving from state to state because I'm assuming it's going to be something similar like the Ryder Cup, like when you see I was there, try to make it feel like a home comfort, make it feel like home from home. but if you haven't got that base but whereas now they haven't got the base because they're moving from place to place so I went to Germany one as well and we were in the the mountains obviously just above Baden-Baden which was yeah pretty mad that was an interesting trip famously famously so yeah it's been so many good stories oh phenomenal so many good stories phenomenal stuff do you think moving around a bit though does that help with some of the boredom that you experienced at times where you've got to stay in or wait between the games?

39:06I think so. Also, it's exciting. I think being around America, if you're going to Dallas, I played in the Dallas Cup. I don't know if you played in that. Did you play in that? The Dallas Cup with Tottenham. We got to the final and got beat by the Corinthians.

39:22It's great, Dallas. Yeah. Yeah. Do we think that, because some of the stories that have come out from your escapades, do we think that this let's start with the England team do we think that when they're out in America there is going to be the same sort of shenanigans that go on like you were talking not too long ago about how you you went out and started eating the leaves on a safari on a safari yeah with the team yeah yeah I remember sneaking out and I was willing to die for the gag really who was managing at the time would that have been Capello in South Africa, yeah. Do we think that Thomas Tuchel, to me, he strikes me as someone it would be harder to get away with that sort of stuff.

40:10Do you know, we've got like, there was so much made of the kind of wags in Barland Bard and stuff, right? But I was speaking to Harry Kane, obviously, when he flew over for Arsenal, for the Arsenal game, they all fly together with the families. Do you know what I mean? like it's just standard practice the wives go on the plane and that wasn't the same when with you no you're just a team flyer don't you yeah you didn't go with the family but I just think there's so much made of like the the wives kind of almost messing up the world cup yeah yeah but whereas a lot of other nations do take their families with them yeah it's a nice idea is that what I mean yes yeah no I get that I get that I think it was a distraction just because it was the press and the hysteria around it that caused maybe a distraction.

41:03But you have got to draw a line there because I don't think, for example, you can have the wives and kids on a team bus. I think if you start going in that direction, that could be games gone. I think it's quite a nice break, to be quite honest. Much as I love them. Nice to get on the Mario Kart. Yeah. I don't know. I think the world's, my perception of it is there isn't so much pressure on that front. I think on, from what I can see anyway, with the focus on wives and girlfriends, because really your, your experience in that time was kind of, I think the first major wag moment, you know, the wives and girlfriends and it was so much press around it.

41:48I think it is just seen as normal. We sort of accept that footballers have them and, you know yeah but there's a lot it's not a problem on planet but there's a lot set up now isn't there in the hotels where like they might set up a big games room and they might I don't know like a basketball hoop in there and video games and table tennis and pool just so I mean I look at this current squad and I mean they're a youngish kind of squad aren't they they're in their mid-20s you know they're all good lads but I yeah I don't all the camera phones are out now and people getting snapped. I think it's going to be a little bit more security and internal.

42:29Yeah, I don't think there'll be much going on. I remember with us, we played golf quite a bit in South Africa on our down days. Which this squad do as well, don't they? Yeah. They do this. They go a bit of golf. They played. Yeah. I remember a massive game for him, certainly in Germany. I ended up playing poker with Michael Owen most of the time. Got 1v1. online poker mental would you two be next to each other yeah right next to each other yeah but on separate seats on the online yeah with two computers mental but you're on the same virtual table no he'd be playing I'd be playing we'd just have a little peek at each other's games ah right oh so two separate sorry that's what I thought so I was yeah you imagine the same as me so they were on the same table but these two are sat there and then there's probably a few other people that have just logged in online as well and they don't realise.

43:25You holding or are you going to go on that? Yeah. And you know where you can set yourself up a little avatar? Like, choose who you're going to be. Yeah. You can just imagine them two. That was mad, that. I spent a lot of time doing that. Do you have to pick a gamer tag name or something? Or you couldn't just go on with Peter Crouch? Peter Crouch and Michael Owen.

43:48No, I suppose not, but... It was good. There was a lot going on in the game. What is your go-to fake name out of interest? Well, I'm big into fraud, aren't I? So I don't really want to say it. Because it's a problem for you, isn't it? I have got one. Yeah, because sometimes if you've got, not like Booker Restaurant is probably the cliched one, but if you're on the phone and you're trying to sort stuff, you've got to give your name, you'll always be met with, oh, not that Peter Craig. It's a tricky one, that, isn't it? I suppose so, yeah, yeah. It does happen. Do you have a fake name, Steve? No.

44:21No? Don't need it. Horny Ginge. Horny Ginge. Now you? I think you just pronounce your name differently. You just go, I'm Steve Seedwell. We've heard that before. You'll never know. No. No, not me. Yeah, well, Crouchy, what's your take on it? Because you were with the England team not too long ago, and it feels to me that everyone's relatively sensible, it feels like yeah focused I just think I always remember Harry Redknapp saying he's like you know when he cancelled the Christmas party it was like there's an opportunity here of like what seven eight months of the year you can really go and fucking achieve something like what you don't need to be doing anything kind of yeah relax have some down time but don't be yeah I suppose you're not there to see the sights is what I'm saying I think just lock yourself away just be focused yeah you need to get away from it a little bit as well.

45:19But I think what's so amazing about the England camps, especially, is that you're in a bubble, right? And you just can't be penetrated by it. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, because there were times, I always remember there was a hotel in Cologne and most of the hotels we stayed in, we were kind of away from the city centre, but this particular one, we were right in the mix. You know when you come in and you get off the bus and there's like a roar. Then you don't really look, you keep your head down, get in a hotel. but I remember going upstairs and I think there's a picture out there somewhere and I always remember I think someone showed me the picture and it's like David Beckham's peeking out this window and I'm doing the robot to the square downstairs we're in the massage room and everyone who came to the thing they were getting a song so then everyone was like Rooney would go up or someone else would go up like Lampard and then I went up and then I just saw like a sea of people doing this robot.

46:20That was unbelievable. How good is that? Honestly, yeah. And it was, everyone was like, it felt like we were in with the fans. How does it change in the run-up to World Cup? I think especially with these lads where there is a huge expectation and part of the reason why there's a new manager now, you know, that England kick on and win this tournament. How does it affect how you're playing for your club in the run-up to it? are you overly cautious about getting injured are you thinking about it even at this stage if you know that you're pretty much certain to go and you must know does it change how you go about your club football I don't it didn't for me I don't think it does I genuinely don't I don't think you once you go on to the pitch I don't think you're thinking about the next game are you be trying to rule yourself out if you think you've got a genuinely good chance of winning the World Cup right it's everyone's dream there must be a pressure to kind of keep yourself at least in those few games before.

47:19I think the only time that that would happen is if you get a slight niggle during the game and you go, do you know what, I could play on with this but we've got six games to go, two months maybe to the end of the season, I don't want to make this worse rather than just like sort of go through the motions during the game. When you're in game mode, you're in game mode. I think you're in. You're in. You're fully invested. I think maybe like you say, if you're struggling with an injury, you're going to push yourself through that before the game or just say, I need to rest this yeah were you ever encouraged by anyone in the national set up to protect yourself no no I don't think so I mean it's very much the other way I remember like certainly Alex Ferguson kind of I always remember the times where players would pull out of the England squad and then always play on Saturday do you know what I mean yeah that just happened a lot yeah you know that's obviously yeah the managers because they got you there already it's like you've got a slight knock you're like don't risk that you know they'd get into you yeah yeah yeah do you just just comparing the bard and barden thing i'm just thinking about it now do you think because it's america and we're seeing all the stuff that we saw with the world cup draw and the sort of showbiz element to it do you think that this might be the kind of resurgence of what we saw there with with wives and go keep keep going back to that you know quite old-fashioned phrase now the wags just because this is going to be the tournament of influencers and i can see this all being played up a lot more than in other tournaments yeah so other people will want their opportunities as well do you think we might start it might be that sort of kind of show busy wag kind of thing again you know if we see if we see the old um you know with the way the draw was like it's pure razzmatazz isn't it yeah razzmatazz what a word what a word that should be the word associated with the World Cup in the States it's razzmatazz Crouchy's razzmatazz tour on the razzmatazz razzmatazz but I think you are right because is it James Madison's got his own YouTube channel now is he doing bits of that and he's taking that everywhere you know it's yeah this is what I'm interested I wonder if it's kind of everyone around this team it is their opportunity they've got anything going this is probably the tournament to be doing that it's one of the biggest things that can happen isn't it World Cup it's a global event they're massive lads I was just looking at the teams that are in and it'd just be interesting to see who you think will win right and who is your dark horse to go because was it Morocco got to the semi-finals I think Morocco but that group you know when we were talking about challenging groups when you really look at it from a Scotland point of view that Brazil Morocco and Haiti Morocco are good so who so I think we should have a little look and go who's a little an outsider not to win it obviously but to get whose team gets further what oh like we should have a little sweep state you mean I think Morocco's a good shout again as a dark horse yeah brilliant also Brazil as well Rodrigo Vinicius Esteval Bruno Guimara you forget how many fucking players they've got, right?

50:44Yeah. The same Spain, great team. I think sometimes we are blinded by art and we think we're the kind of best team around because we see the players every single week. There are some top teams, Argentina, France. I don't think Germany are what they were. They're the same with Belgium, really, but Spain are a fantastic team. and also a lot of people are forgetting about this weather there's a lot of complaints from the players that done the summer competition the club world cup like Chelsea yeah the heat is going to be a killer it really really is and then the South American teams I always remember the island team playing in America in 94 remember that freaking hell Jordan looked like he was going to die do you remember that or not 94 this is pretty tall oh brilliant the water breaks it was just so hot Jack Cheltenham with the white cap with the hat with the one of them like with the little tails on it oh really yeah for sunburn well Tuchel said I'm sure I've read this in an interview recently I think he said that the substitutes might have to be in the dressing room because he's too hot rather than the bench really or something along the lines of he's not against the idea of being cool see again that's different that's not normal I don't as a player as a footballer you don't like that can you imagine if you don't get on though and just sit in the dressing room and then go home just watching the screen you're not even in the stadium watching the game you're in a room watching the TV imagine travelling all the way to a world cup sitting in the dressing room and then going home mate full kit watching a TV is a bit of an odd one isn't it from a substitute's point of view yeah yeah and then if they need to warm up the idea they've got would kind of run up and down the room whilst the others are watching it.

52:40Yeah, because I mean, do you watch it in your boots? Are you serious? You're going to feel like a full kit wanker, aren't you? You are. You can't. You are. You're warming up watching telly. Even though it's conceivable you'll go on. In those moments you're watching the TV, that's very odd. Surely. Do you remember, this reminded me of that picture, do you remember that picture of Charlie Adam parched when he was sitting there in the Ryder Cup in full golf gear? Yeah. I feel for him that one because he's just played gold he's obviously just played gold he's in a few jars after and he's got back in and just thought I'll just lay on the sofa and watch I'll take a picture of him but it's brilliant have you got dressed up like that to stay at home to watch the Ryder Cup okay let's pick a let's pick a dark horse that we think is gonna light up the tournament so someone like a Morocco that yeah that way done the achieve like that last one I mean Norway Norway stands out I mean they've got Haaland tough group though they could get sunburned they could get sunburned I'm not sure if they like the sun I don't know he could play a big factor

53:51I'm going to go with Japan to surprise a few yeah that's a good shout it doesn't feel surprising if I go Morocco again but the only reason I'd like to suggest them again and in that, you know, we've got a couple of great players at Watford who play for them and like exciting and incredibly skillful and I can sort of see them making a proper fist of it. So... They quite often are skillful, aren't they? Yeah. I played with Mustafa Hadji, do you remember? Yeah. Great. And Hassan Kashlou. Yeah. Kashmoney, used to call himself. Kashmoney. Kashmoney. So yeah, I don't know, I don't know if people view them differently after, you know now but I would say Morocco again okay 100 % I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with Australia are you four of the buggers gonna go with Australia Aussies yeah with regards to our group I think we'll get out of it I don't like doing predictions against Croatia because I feel like they can I think there's been like I actually did an interview for Luka Modric's film recently and the guy asking me the questions was very kind of it was very much like a Croatian kind of based documentary I think really and he was saying that the the way Croatia perceive England is like we are the fans are very almost arrogant like they go into the game and think we should be beating Croatia or we've always underestimated them basically and we've come unstuck a number of times because of that.

55:34So, I don't want to, I almost don't want to predict anything, do you know what I mean? Because, it's almost fueling it. Yeah. Do you know that, the fact that they think we're twats, basically. Yeah. And I get that, and I actually think that's going to go in our favour. Because I think the England players and squad know that now. I understand that. There's a bit more respect for that. I do think that, yeah, we've maybe underestimated them in past. Yeah. And come unstuck, rightly so, because we've got some top players. Are they, as good as what they have been over the years I'm not so sure but still a very good side yeah Ghana as well difficult game really hard game Panama expect us to cruise that do you know the biggest outcome of this that I believe I believe is if we if we top our group and Brazil top their group we play Brazil so does that factor then do you want to become second I know you can't you can't do that but I'm just looking even the way we play our game it is in that order Croatia first Ghana next and then Panama at the end but I mean you don't really want to play Brazil do you no you don't but you know I was speaking to Ernie McQuist about obviously the Scotland draw and he was like fucking buzzing for it yeah it's like we're going to World Cup I want to play Brazil it's the one team I want to play at World Cup is Brazil they're so synonymous with the World Cup.

57:01Yeah, we'll say so. So I do think England v. Brazil, can you imagine from a selfish point of view of us, say, in a pub or something, watching England versus Brazil? You're so right. You've got to try and enjoy the tournament element to it as well. And also, I think with these things is you then go beat Brazil, it sets you up so much better, surely. It stops some of the speculation that would be very unhealthy later on in the tournament. you can overthink it as well can't you it's a number of individual games you just got to take them on yeah listen I don't think we fear anyone we like as a nation we respect them but we should be as normal going to these tournaments we'll be in the top teams that could go and win it but yeah okay okay well it's coming home right lads I've got something slightly different I wanted to share with you today we've got this in hi guards regards your families where do I even start with this email my name's Dan I'm emailing on behalf of my sister-in-law my brother's wife her name's Hayley she's 38 I'm sure the following situation is something Chris one ball start can empathise with nice little shout out two weeks ago 14th the 11th 25 Hayley got diagnosed diagnosis of bowel cancer which has spread to her liver today the 28th of November 25 following biopsy scans and bloods etc she has received the news um it's in multiple places and it's an inoperable following her first diagnosis she said she always wanted to go to the boxing and the darts my brother managed to get two tickets for ben versus eubank and off they went to the spurs stadium just a bit of background i'm a firefighter in london and i work on same watch as my brother chris at crouch's old stomping ground tottenham we've both been firefighters for over 20 years.

59:00Both Chris and Hayley would be mortified that I'm sending this email as am I. As with our backgrounds, we're always putting others first and never ask for help ourselves. As my brother's wife Hayley is no San Marino, I'd have to say she's more of a Germany. Always efficient, organises very well, and when she lets her hair down and nights out, she deceptively off the rails and in any of their marriage penalty shootout battles she always wins she's an amazing mum to both my nieces Letty Lane and Lea Hart one for Spurs fans to appreciate both Chris and Hayley listen to the pod and the therapy crouch with all this happening so suddenly and quickly getting tickets to the darts at such late notice is impossible with her treatment in the early stages and not knowing how it will affect her I'm reaching out to yourselves and any fellow podcast listeners and or Paddy Power could they make her dream come true and get Hayley to the darts are willing to pay or make a donation to charity if the pod can make this happen my brother Chris will dress up in anything you guys choose to make this even more memorable any help would be gratefully received and I hope you have an amazing Christmas and an even better Christmas pudding as let's face it this year time of year puddings are massive puddings always need to be massive they do They do, they do.

1:00:25And a lovely, lovely email and message. Obviously sad to hear you going through that. Yeah, really sorry to hear that, Hayley. You want to go to the darts? Yes, so we have been working merrily behind the scenes. And Hayley, you will be going to the darts, courtesy of Paddy Power and the podcast. So four tickets on their way too. Love it. That's proper good of you, Crouchy. that's the stuff you can make happen the power of Peter Crouch are we going to the darts this year? yes we'll be there it's our Christmas pod night out what are you thinking? you're thinking of an idea no not necessarily I'm just saying it was last time we went to the darts I kind of think we should do fancy dress because last time we went to the darts all that ended up happening for the three hours we were in that room is the whole stand next to us would just get you to down drinks for, which was fun for the first 45 minutes or so.

1:01:34Yeah, it was fun for a while. And then I was like, oh God. I don't think you can drink anymore. And then they moved on to you, Sid. I know. And then you passing me four ones. I was giving you half. And you're pretending. I think you killed me. I think we've got to put you in some fancy dress, mate. Do you reckon? I think so. We'll have a look at it. We should do that. We'll have a look. It's a good night. Yeah. It is great. I can't wait. I like the creative fancy dress that I like. You know when it's a group, but it's all coordinated. Oh, I saw a great one from the Butlins. It happens a lot with the Butlins weekenders.

1:02:13Have you ever been to one of them? I went to Butlins when I was a kid. Five Asside. Bob and Regis. I've DJed a couple of these weekenders, and they're fun. because the fancy dress has become as big a thing there as it kind of is the darts. I saw a great one the other day and it's two of them, it was basically the full Titanic thing. So two of them have come dressed as a boat. They come in, there's a captain in the middle with a full-on beard and everything. And then they've got the two main, it's basically celebrating the film rather than the actual thing. And then they've got Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on one of them and the fella dressed as an iceberg and they're playing all this out on the dance floor.

1:02:55You know, it was some old 90s bangers ago. So you want it to be a theme with all the production? I'd like it. We've not done fantasy, but I think we should do a unified, coordinated fantasy dress. Let's do it. And now I'm thinking we should get on to one of these butliners weekenders as well. I'm hearing a few dodgy things about these butliners weekends. What are you hearing? Loads of fun. Yeah, too much fun by what I mean. Too much fun. It's too much fun. Enjoy yourself. But enjoy yourself by being disciplined. That goes for you. It's the Christmas period. Enjoy. This episode is brought to you by a load of pricks.net.

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