World Cup Hero Mary Earps: The Moment I Nearly Quit Football – “I Sold My Stuff On eBay To Survive”

0:00This podcast is part of the Acast Creator Network. hello and welcome to that peter crutch podcast uh with me peter crutch notorious sID and chris start with me uh how are we very good erling how are you yeah um well trying to pinch it well you know the thing is it's like it's all over the place i mean like it's part of my dna do we need to lawyer i've got nothing left are we strapping are we strapping up are we are we i think we've up here. I think we've got a lawyer up here. He's come, mate, he's going to go down as one of the greatest goal scorers of all time. That could easily become his signature celebration unless we do something here.

0:44I've said... Don't we have a lawyer? I thought one of our listeners was a lawyer. Podcast lawyer. We have got a podcast lawyer. He stepped in a couple of times. Do you know when he stepped in? When we wanted to, do you remember we wanted to do Crouchella? That was it. And Crouchella actually got in touch with us and said we couldn't do it. Yeah. Do you remember that? That was it. As if we were going to rival them or something. I can't remember his name. We'll find him. But what we should get him to do is, you know when players leave the training ground and they sign a couple of autographs, right?

1:11We get a kid to serve him papers. Straight through the window. He won't be expecting that. Sign this. Yeah. And we'll get him there. I think we've got to go aggressive on this, Crouchy. Yeah, I agree. That was like when I was talking about, do you remember when I was banging to fraud? Do you remember right at the start of these podcasts? Well, I just always assumed. that's why I had a different signature because I thought if someone just slips like you know sign this you know bank agreement or mortgage you sign them outside the window that's why I had a different signature you're such a nice bloke mate but you've got to be careful in these situations because first they come for the robot and we said nothing then they come for the podcast and we say nothing next thing he's doing a podcast next thing he's got your wife and you know your whole life's been plagiarised it's all yeah we're going aggressive here lads but I do think there is probably legs in this that we can work together with Ireland and Man City.

2:03So you're offering the carrot approach. I think we should release it.

2:10So you're saying don't go for the stick. I'm offering the olive branch first. Yeah. And then, I mean, then we'll attack. So what are you suggesting, Sid, that actually, what would be nice is to kind of, the dream would be to get them on the podcast or at least some sort of acknowledgement here, right? Yeah. I think we should go down the avenue first. I think he'd want to do it. I think he'd want to do it. I think Man City would want to do it. They're playing well at the moment. I think he's something that's definitely got legs there to progress with. And then if they don't, then we just go in hard.

2:43What a player, man. I do love him as a player, you know. I think he's one of my... He could be my favourite in the Premier League to watch. Just love the way he plays the game. Really do. Is it weird watching another striker do your robot, though? Is it sort of a bit like... Listen, there were people out there before. I have to say, Sean Wright Phillips actually did it probably before me. Oh, yes. And there was people doing it in New York on the street in the 60s and 70s. So I didn't invent the robot. It just looked quite funny when I did it. I think that's where it came from. Well, you know, I am pretty well known for it.

3:21I have to say, you know, I'm not the original. I just did it. I remember right. one that was it I think that was in the City Derby yeah it might well have been it was nice nicely nicely done yeah do you know who we need Anton Debeck right to rate who did the better robot out the two love it give it a bit strictly well he's not getting a seven from me that's for sure he's getting higher yeah there ain't no seven here I know that's Lynn Goodman but before you jump on so what have we been up to lads you had a good good week yeah What have you been up to? Yeah, I was in Orlando. Yeah. Yeah. It was amazing, yeah.

4:01With Universal. It was sensational. I don't know if you've been out there recently. There's a lot going on. There's loads. They've got four, there's like four parks. It's brilliant. I loved it. I was there the year before, the last year I was there. Great. Really good. Really good. I mean, Sunrise. Did you go on, let me tell you, Stardust? Did you go on that? No. Stardust and the Velociraptor. Velociraptor, is it? Yeah, Velociraptor. That and Hagrid. Hagrid. Right. Incredible. Oh, Hagrid. Chris, Hagrid's unbelievable. I've never been. You'd love it. You'd love it. You would love it. Talk to me about Hagrid.

4:33Oh, Hagrid's unbelievable. So you're basically on a bike, right? And you've got a little sidecar. But obviously I couldn't fit the sidecar. So my little boy's got in that. And like, you're on a bike, but it's a roller coaster. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, it's mega. Yeah. Yeah, and Stardust was off the charts. You had a good week, though. You enjoyed it. Good week, mate. A bit of golf with Poulter as well. A little bit of golf with Ian Poulter over there. yeah that's outrageous you said last time we spoke that that might be on the cards and it happened didn't it yeah yeah we had a we had nine I went up I was up in one he gave me a shot hole obviously but I was up in through three or four I think I was one up and then yeah demolished me a shot is that it yeah that's a bit harsh I was a hole I one shot per hole so nine through nine I still think that's pretty good from you Well, I was quite pleased.

5:26I hit the ball all right. There was a couple of shanks in there. But I played quite well. I was quite pleased. Yeah. No, good for you, mate. There was some real dog shit in there. But there's some good stuff. It sounds like you've navigated half-turn beautifully. Yeah, you did a great one. Good thing, part bit of golf, managed to escape for golf. Have you managed to avoid the 6-7 thing doing the rounds at the moment? No, we were doing that every day. God, it's tiring. I don't get it, if I'm honest. Do you know what does me? I still don't get it. I still don't get it. I was enjoying it. because I was with the kids and they were loving it and people kept asking me because I'm in America oh my god man how tall are you?

6:006 '7". Come on mate. I couldn't help doing it. You know your comments on the next pod are going to be Steve 6 '7". Oh fucking hell. Do it just for us. What 6 '7"? Yeah. What is it? I can't do that if I don't know what it is. You don't want to sign up for something you don't know. I just don't get it. No I don't get it either. No one does. does it actually mean you don't know what it is like you're in it's a six or seven honestly mate I think it's a no I don't think it's even that I think it's from some something probably like a meme or something like that and it's a generational thing ultimately we're too old to understand it that's just the truth of it that's the truth of the matter I'm stumped I'm done yeah yeah well it's funny when people ask me my height because that's obviously perfect my kids are buzzing off it so love that I was happy with it Love that.

6:53Yeah, just before we move on to the games quickly, Sid, obviously your memorial post. We've been inundated with various crackers here from the fans. We've got Greve Sidwell. Steve is alive and well. Steve bid farewell. That's my favourite. Nice, nice. The Notorious RIP. Steve lived well. We've got Bereave Sidwell. Steve Stillwell, red and buried. Red and buried. Steve wasn't well Steve sleep well and Steve Sid whale the reason I hate it's good we have a laugh for this stuff right but this is these are the comments that would happen should the worst happen and I often think my association with barbecues will meet the same sort of thing you know I do worry about when I pass about the Peter Crouch podcast Instagram I know what you mean the thing is with me is like you know that floodlight that keeps coming out you know when they're carrying in the floodlight and it says I've died.

7:54That will be everywhere, won't it? It will. There he is. Rest in peace, big man. But is it not a good thing to be remembered? It's good to be ahead of it, I think. Also, put a smile on people's faces. When you pass, it's a sad time for most of your family. You know, let's have a laugh about that. I agree. About these things. We'll do a big old Crouch Fest or something, will we? Look, it's not a nice thing to talk about, but in a way, it's nice to be alive and see in the comments. I'm alive and kicking I appreciate the comments and I appreciate everyone You're just doing football escapes that's what you're doing That's what I'm doing I'm here talking about picking things up the pod ski we mentioned that a long time ago The Lucas The Lucas I believe there is legs in this there is a bit there is a bit of traction in this and I think we're looking out for listeners to get involved and throw some ideas in is that right as well because I think this is this is really probably a go-off for the ski season which is going to be in full swing soon.

8:52I've never been skiing, but a Lucas does sound fun. Lucas is a lot of fun, mate. It's definitely a lot of fun. Something we'll get onto as well, just developments in the paint. We were doing the Hancock paint. Have you gone for your... Yeah, the irony is, my office where I was in when we did that Babes Nation stuff, it does ironically look like a tan cock. Does it? I don't know how it's happened. It's a coincidence. So the paint is done. I can always repaint it at the worst, but I think the idea of having a podcast paint is actually really what I want to get to. I believe there's some murmurings around that.

9:29Yeah. Well, listen, we've reached out to Farrow and Womble. Dulux, Johnston's, and Leyland and Crown Paints have all been reached out to. So whoever gets back kind of first will create a Tancock paint. And just in a bit of other news, can't get over the coincidence. You know, I taught you both about what three words. Yes. I hosted a pub quiz last week. Oh, oh, developing, developing news. We've got breaking news. Get a yellow sticker up. Breaking news. Who's if Brendan Rodgers has been sacked? Right. So this is breaking news. This is the first time ever on breaking news on the podcast. Breaking news.

10:09Okay. We've got a message here. Hi there. Hope you're well. I've come back. I've come to work this morning and had messages from 10 people in our team who have listened to the Peter Crouch podcast and heard he wants to make a paint colour. Turns out that something I can make happen. I'm the senior brand manager for Valspar paint and could very easily help get the colour matched and mixed. If this is an opportunity, still an opportunity, please let me know and we'll set up a team's call. That's from Lucy at the team. Okay, Valspar. Great, they're big guns. oh yeah they sound your thoughts on Valspar Steve well first come first serve eh I think we're in I think we're in well that's fantastic news huge breaking news Tankock could Tankock could could go I mean listen this is breaking news so there'll be more developments on that story as we get it love that but um very quickly on the what three words thing hosting a pub quiz last week yeah and the guy who wrote all the questions for the pub quiz invented what three words no way and he does he does pub quizzes on the side that's like whoever created tinder running karaoke nights mental did you speak to him yeah he's well yeah because he wrote all the questions for his pub quiz i was doing it was like a charity pub quiz yeah just like um sort of real lovable kind of quizzy nerd i guess he writes the questions for that show only connect and wanted me to pass on that he created what three words after he heard that we talked about it on the podcast that's insane that's a massive all the people that is insane well you know just on that subject chris we got we've got a load back in from um various podcast listeners uh in southern algeria uh pods back stronger wow you go you can you can stand in southern Algeria Pod's back stronger apparently Pod's Massive Puddings that's in Norway Crouch Tall Crouch Striker Tall is in northern China that's bordering Kazakhstan great we need to get there if anyone get a photo in one of these places that's the dream look at the next one we've got Stark Radio Host that's in Lando River Crossing in Texas no way Stark Radio Host no way we've got Civ Slidwells It's not quite the same, but it's the closest we could get.

12:40That's in Rolo Kangri, and that's close to the Tibetan region of China. I love that. That's brilliant. Superb. All right, well, thanks for your messages. Another torrid week for me, lads. I'm really struggling here. I got just one point. Chris, you got three, and Sid, you got two. So that puts me on 18 adrift. Chris is on 23, and Sid, you're leading on 24. Is that the second time you've done that in consecutive weeks where you've taken three points I've I've snatched them yeah he's looking to he's nearly got them and then I swoop in at the last minute that's the difference is to find margins it's such a blow for me you need a big week fucking hell man I'm past bluey now I might need surgery what's the next I have to go under oh no I don't know what's happening oh no it's a big week lads well it's a huge week what is the point did you say the points are I'm on 18 Chris is on 23 and Sid is on 24 alright so you're 6 points yeah

13:48ok well let's just fly straight into this week's fixtures then the big weekend fixture supported by Paddy Palace Manchester City versus Liverpool I mean notoriously the biggest game in recent history in English football certainly for the league title for the last however many years but not so the case at the moment. Liverpool did obviously bounce back. Man City are definitely up there. Two teams who you would class still in the title race, but Arsenal are streaking ahead at the moment. Yeah, last five meetings, Liverpool have won two, two draws and Man City have won one. I mean, yeah, Liverpool have had a bounce back, haven't they?

14:30They still don't look the well-oiled machine. No, they didn't. I definitely think, I think them bringing back, obviously Graven Birch coming back, but that midfield for me is their strongest midfield, I suppose, like Graven Birch McAllister. I also think Robertson coming back was a big... Yeah, agree. And I actually think the two best full-backs at the moment are Connor Bradley and Andy Robertson. I think they'll, Fring Pong and Kerkhez will be great players, but at the moment hasn't... I definitely think it was a lot more, it was a lot calmer with Andy Robinson. I thought he played really well.

15:05And yeah, he had a difficult season last year, but I think he's back stronger. But if you lose a Trent as well, do you think there's a stability that comes from having Robbo there as well? Yeah. I think that's it. I think Paul Merson said this on the weekend, that I think they've not valued how much they're going to lose Trent. They've got all the front players in, but I think they've, not heavily relied because he wasn't a major way in terms of their tactics and their game plan but what he'd done in games they've missed but I said this before like those two fullbacks were massive massively integral to what Jurgen Klopp was if you think about do you remember they used to like cross to each other at one stage it was like the most assists there was a period where they were having assists off yeah they were weren't they right it was amazing and you take that out of a team that's going to that's going to be detrimental I think even Isak's struggled for fitness and and form Virts has been the same yep but it will click and it will come what's who's favourite in this game mate what are we saying favourites are Mad City are favourites 17 to 20 tenner gets you 18 pound 50 strong favourites Liverpool 11 to 4 37 pound 50 you get off a tenner a repeat of of last meeting was 2-0 Liverpool 18 to 1 you can get on that which seems big odds wow wow okay seems big odds what's the people saying mate just having a look right now Dennis Pepper has gone for City 4 Liverpool 1 great name that is a peppering yeah JT is on air is he what's he said not your JT did you see him rapping the other day by the way rapping ballers thing he was rapping on the baller league he walked out didn't he Gingers in trouble ah yeah I did see that I saw someone rapping Not with, it was with Ardy.

16:58Yeah. You know. Anyway, JT is saying, top pod lads, keep up the good work, get involved in more Scottish chat. Check out Aberdeen's new director of football. What's the story there? Have I said something really controversial? Can we get him up? Why is that a thing? Aberdeen's director of football. Fannestiel. Is it pronounced Fannysteel? Is that why they... Ah, Fannestiel. I might be wrong I might be wrong it might be the pronunciation of the name but please do let us know JT and Matt Chubb Chubbster the Chubbster's back in the Chubbster have we spoken about Chubbster before yeah you buzzed up Chubb Chubb last time did I yeah yeah last week okay well Matt Chubb's gone for a gone for a one all so tempted to go with him I don't know it's sort of I don't know if Liverpool been a bit too written off in this game with their odds 2-0 is 18-1.

17:58You've got a fancy Man City at home. I know my score. I'm going with, I think Manchester City 2-1, which pains me to say. It pains me to say. But Liverpool score, I think City at the moment might be a little bit too strong. I like the team they picked, Liverpool in the last game against Villa. Did feel that they've, hopefully they can bounce back. And I hope I'm wrong in some ways. But my head, wrongs my heart, 2-1. Good score. Chris, I don't know. I'm half tempted to drop a Desmond here, go for a 2-2. But then I do think City, on their last performance, are just a little bit too strong. What are you going for?

18:382-1 City. 2-1 City. My main thing about this game is I just don't want any more robots. I don't want it to become a thing. Do you know what I mean? Just go back to that one was great, wasn't it? The old Buddha one. That was fine. Just do that. let me have it two ones good they're surfing papers you're stuck here two two or three one that's so hard that's so hard what are you going for it is a difficult one because I do think Liverpool will score but do I see City scoring three I don't know I'm gonna do you want me to go yeah okay I'm gonna go I'm gonna go 2-0 I know I've just said Liverpool will score but I'm going to go 2-0 2-0 Man City so 2-0 2-1 I'll go you're 2-1 I'll go I'll go 3-1 then we've all gone for Man City we've all gone City boys I've had a change of heart here I'm going to go Desmond I've just seen a couple of messages from people I think need to do something different alright nicely done maybe maybe okay okay we do have the Paddy's Boost where we pick a a Crouch a leg of the Crouch Prod Bet Builder the odds on that Bet Builder are then boosted by 20 % and put on the Party Power specials section of the website or app if I go for a player to score first who do you reckon I'm going to go for?

20:05Does that lose you money if he scores? Oh God no I genuinely think I don't know the exact odds because we're recording it slightly before that the exact odds of Haaland to score any time goal scorer has got to be the lowest of all time of any player I would have thought any time scorer I mean, I'm going to go for him first because that does put me in some sort of credit. First goal scorer, it's got to be some sort of odds. So I'm going to go for Haaland to score first. Okay, I'll go for a player to be carded. I'm going to go for Gravenberg because he's back now. So Gravenberg for Liverpool. Okay, cool.

20:35And I'm going to go player to have two plus shots on target, Mo Salah. Well, that feels pretty safe, that one. The odds are correct at the time of recording. Please gamble responsibly. moving on to what I feel like is our podcast team now Sunderland I don't know why we've incorporated them because we back them from the start we're big fans of what Jacques has done so far this season and his interviews and they are playing Arsenal what do we and they're at home as well and their home form is good I've been really impressed with Sunderland I think I mentioned last week I covered them against Chelsea they were outstanding they were really really good defensively really good and at home they you know we've played there it's when they get going up at Sunderland it's decent fans in it they get behind them Is this a bridge too far for them?

21:31I think so I'd love to go to Sunderland It pains me to say this because I know Arsenal fans are on me as well but this could be their season Why are Arsenal fans on you? They always get on them don't they always say they're negative That's because I think sometimes you you come across anti-Arsenal a bit negative towards Arsenal I think there's a lot of people that are a bit negative towards Arsenal other than not winning it yet you know I do think there's a negative I think they've built something pretty special there I think defensively they're brilliant they signed in the summer really well this is their season to lose it's their season to lose the title I'll be honest I'd love it I'd love it if they did lose it have they lost it?

22:16yeah I'd love it I think in every friendship circle the thing is it comes down to who supports what team and like I've got a couple of Arsenal mates who I sort of would love them to well it's Jamie's behind the camera now I'm saying that really for his benefit well exactly that but if you're an Arsenal fan it does feel like this is such a good opportunity this season and you know well it did just be because I feel like it's in their hands massively now it would be it's not I'd love it I just I would have a rice slime up smile on my face if it did I think you're right there is one you have one or two Arsenal fans always in your circles and they for me they think they invented football that's where no not the same not the same like in general like my my Arsenal friend like my mates they like it's like boys you didn't invent football are you quite protective of that that time where you were where you were in Arsenal and it was that team and that sort of golden era and actually does that serious question does that in some way make you not as how can I put this like I love Arsenal I love honestly I love but do you love Arsenal so much then that it clouds your judgement with them a bit now maybe maybe because it was it was an incredible time is it like a previous girlfriend that you're seeing you're seeing no no I can see where you I can see where you two are going.

23:47No, it's not. It's not. I just think from where they were to where, to, to, to, not recently, they've had a bit of a dip and now they're back. They are back. Really see them back. And I, not being negative towards Arsenal, I think they, they will win it. I think they're, I think they're a very good side. Yeah. It's so exciting to watch at the moment with them. And, and so many bits to their game that is, he's just, I love watching them. I love watching them. They look the strongest so far. But this is, I think, I think you are right to have a think about back in Sunderland. Well, I just think that they are due to slip up.

24:24They are due. They are. And I think it's this sort of game. I think that's what I mean. I think going there, the crowd will be up for it. The players, it's their cup final. I need something big. You do. And I'm going to go with Sunderland 1-0. No. Oh, that's so good. This could be the end of me. I'm willing to die on his sword wow I'm going to go it's a missionary or a three for me I'm afraid I'm going to have to go 2-1 2-1 Arsenal okay this could be such a moment I think we should all tune in I'm I'm going and I genuinely believe this I'm going to go for a draw so you've gone Arsenal yeah I've gone Sunday sorry you've gone Sunday you've gone Arsenal I'm going to go for a 1-1 draw that's what I mean that's cat amongst the pigeons that is big right here's a game Spurs versus Manchester United Spurs struggled at home yeah I mean that was really disappointing displaying as Chelsea yeah I think they had I think it was one I don't know if they had a shot on target it was really poor it might have been one shot the whole game bad did you see the after the Jed Spence and I did yeah what was this the manager Thomas Frank walked on straight after the whistle went to shake did he go to shake hands or speak to them.

25:42I think he went to say, don't applaud the fans. They were like, no, they just walked straight past. Walked in. Yeah. It didn't look good. It didn't look good that. I didn't, I didn't like that. I think there might be more context to it. I don't know what, but it didn't, it didn't look good. But yeah, Spurs were really, really poor, really poor. Have Man United turn the corner? Yeah. I like, I like them. I've said no, they dropped points at the weekend, but it was a great finish from Ahmed, wasn't it? I like the front three there is definitely it does feel like they've turned a corner and I do think it could become a little bit a little bit hostile especially being at Spurs I'm actually doing this game really looking forward to being there is this the only kickoff or is it the late one I haven't checked to kick off time but I am doing the game so I better check that beforehand but yeah I do think it'll be it'll be an interesting game this and with it being at Tottenham I think there is a little bit unrest they were booed off at the end there so they need to start well I think that could prove a problem for them This is tough because everyone in the DMs is saying Tottenham win Really everyone and I really want to I really think United but what is this?

26:59Does this result rely on that fella getting his hair cut? Oh that's a good Is it done? Oh cool shit Sorry yeah So it's back to the beginning? Yeah Stop it Yeah. Just quickly talking of here, is anyone doing Movember? Yes. Are you doing one? Yes. He's just going to go, mate. Upstairs and downstairs or just upstairs? Well, I never thought of downstairs, yeah. Movember downstairs. Well, no, because I struggle to grow a conventional tash. Why? So I don't know if it's just better to... But how's anyone going to know? Can't do a before and after, can you? Wow. I never thought of that You never thought of that No That's fan you Eric

27:45Right Okay Let's come back to that I'm going to go I'm going to go for A Manchester United win He's gone They lost him I'm going to go for a United win I'm going to go 2-1 For Man United Please Man United win Yeah Great Yeah I don't know what to do here I'm really struggling This is tough This is really tough I'm really really struggling Was it genuinely a bad atmosphere at Spurs? No. It's Chelsea-Spurs, isn't it, as well? And they played really bad. They played really, really bad. I'll do Spurs 2-1. Okay, I'm going to go for 2-1. Oh, it's another one as well. Oh, I love it. This is great. This is a very exciting meet this week.

28:24This is great. This feels big for me this week. I need some points on the board here. I've been robbed the last few weeks. You have. All right. Let the games commence.

28:38boys we've recorded earlier today in the day and you've done me a favor because i i'm going up to birmingham um to uh tonight for the i'm actually doing the fa cup draw oh really well i hope at the time people get to hear this you've done something funky with it well this is perfect time to get some advice it's one of them where for me we know football heritage nostalgia it's um it's huge I'm actually really excited for this but I don't want to obviously make a mock of it as well of course not so I need to do something or not do something at all do you know what your role is are you are you mixing the balls what do you mean I think yeah you're going to put your hand in and shake it up and then go in and pick them on it I think we're going to get the sack put the balls in rummage what about if you get a six or a seven out just give us I think that was done before there was a kid in the background I think Michael Antonio did it before in the previous round it feels like it's gone that one I don't want to sort of throw it there's only so many ways you can pick a ball it needs to be subtle yeah okay hang on you can't get out with your feet come on I can't run a mock in this this is the institution of the FA football

30:04listen I'm just going to keep it cool I'm just going to go and just going to be myself trying to think what we're going to do I can't listen picking out one solo ball is a lovely homage to me as well given the year I've had he's had a real tough year since so maybe just for one of them you could just pick it out and just bow your head I don't know what it would be I'll do that I'll pay homage yeah would you like me to do that First ball you pick out, just a little like... Okay, yeah. Before you read the number. Number seven. Do we do that or say the number first and then... Yeah, maybe beforehand.

30:44Yeah, or you say the one ball. If I get the one ball, I'm looking at the number and then it's going to get confusing because you've basically announced number one. Do you know what I mean? You don't want to get yourself in problems there. the number one ball I would definitely pay homage to that one when he pulls out number one out of the thing yeah okay yeah that's great or you can just put it back in it's little case and just give it like that no no because it's not it's a positive it's actually a positive thing you know there's podcasters embrace talking about it so yeah but okay or do you just do you just do you hold it up tuck it down do you tuck it down and then hold it up no because it looks like I'm cheating there's a rehearsal and everything isn't it that's a serious thing it's like it's quite nerve wracking I don't get that mate any ideas anyone I'll just pay homage what do you mean pay homage I'll tell you what when you pull out the one ball quick kiss I can't do that why not that's fine you can't do that you'll get down you'll kiss the one ball they'll do you what if I put it down and scratch my nuts there we go there we go we can see that we love that surely we're allowed that little scratch I just worry that relies on the camera picking it up I'm just going to bow my head for Pommage for you see how it feels alright I think dream scenario is one ball picked out quick kiss onto the display only on ball one they won't even notice it since they won't notice it you can't do it's up by your face anyway okay hold up the one do it slightly higher and just let your lips go forward to it you don't technically kiss the ball yeah that's it that's exactly it yeah that just a forward motion of the hand on ball number one of the face well let's see if I get ball number one right lads we have a European Championship winner we have a Golden Glove winner a World Cup finalist it's Mary Earps

32:45right ladies and gentlemen Mary Earps hello how are you good how are you yeah good thanks you just like jetted in from Paris just for you yeah it's on your diamond that's not true I know that's not the invoice is coming in later you've got far more important things to do I'm sure no but how is it out there by the way it's good it's really good I mean Paris is an amazing city I feel really lucky to live there and obviously play for such an amazing amazing club and they had a great year last year which was unreal to kind of watch that how that played out yeah I feel it's good it's really good how does that How does that come about?

33:24How did you find out about them wanting to sign you? How does it happen? Towards the end of the season, I was making my decision and I was weighing it up. In the end, I got to the point where I felt I needed to try something different and push myself out of my comfort zone. I went for it. I've heard you speaking on various other bits and pieces that you didn't know where you were going to be. You took almost a break out of football and then came right back into it and did so incredibly well, obviously internationally and stuff like that. Yeah, a bit of an accidental break, I feel like. Yeah, what happened there?

34:02And why did you feel like that? Yeah, it sort of, I mean, all fell into the time of COVID as well, where the world felt like it was on fire. And I got dropped from the national team sort of like early 2020. And then, yeah, we went into COVID and that kind of took my life into a little bit of yeah deep darkness that I didn't anticipate being in and had to really kind of re-evaluate like what I was doing and thinking and what I was going to do with the rest of my life because like women's football is so different to men's football it's obviously come such a long way but it's still very much in its growth phase and like you know that like I lost like like part of my salary basically I and then I couldn't pay the bills like I was in credit card debt and like i was having to i mean exclusive but it's in the book as well like i had to like sell stuff on ebay to try and like be able to pay my rent and afford to like yeah get by which you know we all do stuff like that but people don't expect that when you're a footballer and so yeah then it was kind of a real point in time where i didn't take i didn't take a break i was still playing like um obviously everything closed down with covid but and where were you at the time Man United at the time.

35:14So I was really, yeah, I had to really think about whether I was going to extend or, I've got a business degree as well, so whether I was going to try and use that and just, yeah, give it up and just be like, no, come on, you've tried, you're not good enough and crack on. That was kind of the point I was at. Do you feel like that was, like being the whole basis of your career? Like me and Pete have said it before, where we've all had ups and downs, but it was more like, like how sort of crouchy was where you know he was not ridiculed but like obviously how his appearance and stuff and then me I always had to find that I always had to sort of prove people wrong like was that the same with you in your career like it was never just like a plain saying you was always going to be a footballer it was always more dips than you've had to sort of go up again yeah like I was roommates with Tony Duggan and she always told me like you have more lows than you do highs in football and I thought that is absolute crap that net why am I playing this game that I love if I have more lows than highs but I look back and think yeah I do I've had much more lows than highs and I think that's just kind of how my careers fell I know other people you know we've all had teammates and they just seem to like walk on rainbows and gold and you think how does it just work out so perfectly and I feel like it's been a proper struggle the whole time but I also like look at it and think I'm really grateful for that because it's made me who I am and I also think it's the reason why I've had the success that I've had is because I've had like a lot of like the same problems as a lot of people even though I've lived this glamorous football life do you know what I mean people can relate to me a lot more also I think as the game has sort of soared in popularity I think you telling your story is I think people are so invested in so many of you now you'll get used to this this podcast works differently we have ice cream brands there's a dump truck out there and someone's just rang the bell but we just carry on but do you feel like being honest and getting these stories out there can actually show what a bit more under the bonnet and show what you've all had to go through and there's a very surface level understanding i think to a lot of your personalities and i think i mean you're so honest in this book aren't you and what you've been talking about yeah like I think what has come from my success so that time that you were talking about where it went a bit crap and then came back up I think it I found my success came when I was just myself I was able to communicate honestly like and it's hard it's hard to have conversations with your managers your teammates or like people in industry like navigating professional relationships is never easy there's ups and downs as there is in personal relationships but I found that my success came when I was more open and vulnerable and I spent a lot of my life being very closed and I think that that's what I've tried to do in this book I know it's unusual for someone to write a book who's still playing but I've always gone about my life and career a bit differently so I guess why change that now um but I guess it depends what people people think because if they start burning up and saying it's the worst thing I've ever done then yeah maybe I'll have to just listen there's there's a lot of talk about this book though I mean there's there's a lot of hype at the moment around it um did we have tony duggan on the podcast i can't remember if we had her on the podcast or if she i don't know like was on the phone at some point zoom a few times we've done this podcast we've been absolutely steaming as well and i see well that's the only reason i said i'd come on to be honest i'm a bit disappointed i seem to remember tony on at some point in some capacity what was she like rooming with because she's she seems like such a laugh she is i wouldn't be surprised if yeah if she's been in and about she's just she's just such a great person yeah uh obviously she was a fantastic footballer as well and um she also helped bring me out of my shell like uh she was my first roommate at senior um at senior level and as i say i was very close like i found it hard to be honest and um like you know i felt always a bit because of different things that i've experienced in my life i felt always like a bit of the outsider and she really brought me in and um made me feel um yeah like that she had time for me and um I really really appreciated that and we still keep in in touch now and she's such a good person yeah yeah well you've been so successful internationally and we've you know been well documented you know my time playing for England was classed as the golden generation of 2005 to kind of 2010 that's when I played some of the players I played with were unbelievable but why why was it that you couldn't you managed to get things over the line you know to win things and and maybe we didn't I mean what was it what was the differences would you have said um yeah I mean I don't know what you guys like went through and kind of your experience in in the changing room and on the pitch and stuff but I think from from my experience and what we did in 2022 I think it it came together we found a way like the there was obviously a lot of preparation and I think people probably just think oh well you just have to work harder and it's not really like that it's it's a lot of different things I think we had a great together I think in 2022 the culture was one of the best cultures I've ever been a part of in in my whole football career and we yeah we really enjoyed it and it was it was hard work I don't know why why we got it over the line and in that sense I just think that I'm just so glad that we did and we did it in a home tournament I think what it's done for women's football has just been unbelievable especially that time though but like it's so funny when you talk about selling things on ebay and being at that point i remember trying to get one of your goalkeeper tops with your name on oh yeah and getting one on ebay it just seems like a very full circle thing that you would be at one point in your career doing that yeah to like it was it was like gold just trying to get hold of one i also it reminds me of that video of your parents oh yeah they're on the train They were being sassy, weren't they?

41:15This was so good. They got interviewed by random. They did, yeah. And they were in their yellow and green goalkeeper tops, I think they were. Love it. Like, the support of your parents, I imagine, has always been throughout your career and an important part of it. You always say this as well, Pete, with your dad. How much did they kind of push you into football and sort of support you through this? Yeah, you know what? I wouldn't say they pushed me into football. I think my brother and my dad always played football in the back garden. And that was, I think it's a natural thing, isn't it, really?

41:45and I was watching from the window and was inside with my mom and I one day just wanted to go and join in and get involved I felt left out and I did and I loved it and I then tried to join his training sessions but I couldn't because of um like girls and boys couldn't mix and then found a local girls team so I think my dad like helped guide me and make decisions when I couldn't you know when I'm like 10 I can't find a team for myself but they never pushed me into it I think they were keen to not push me into it because maybe like me and my dad were were really close when when when I was young and he probably felt like he was trying to push me maybe he wanted to see how like that I really loved it myself and as soon as he could see that he just tried to give me every opportunity you know drive me everywhere like I wouldn't be in this position without them no way and their sacrifice I never know what to do as a parent in this position like I've got a little girl who's 10 loves football yeah I should I be doing sort of project herbs with her right I think you should just throw some things at her and see if they stick I don't know what she'd be doing as a dad to be fair not only you there's probably a lot of our listeners as well that have got kids and girls young girls and like my little girl she loves football but it's the process now of and it is getting better and bigger but for boys it's an easy transition in terms of going from a Sunday league and the pathway into a pre-academy or an academy but for young girls now for us and for listeners what how would you say is best to probably transition their their young girls yeah you know what it's a hard one because I don't even really know what the pathway looks like too much now there are a lot more academies and RTCs and stuff like that when I was young there wasn't I went on trial for my first like proper team really like 13 14 probably that's when I got into Leicester did you have to start in a boys team first of all yeah I started with my brother's team but I wasn't so I trained with them a bit but I wasn't allowed to play games yeah so then obviously when you love the game you want to play matches you don't just want to train so that's when I found a local girls team and kind of went from there but it was all Sunday league like there was had no experience of academies and you know boys are signed up so young I mean it goes to like five or six like driving to academies and I think you know it's the scouting process and um talent ID and all of that like I think that's come a long way in the women's game and eventually it was like school trials county trials like that kind of thing national trials and then it escalates from there.

44:11But as you say, without my parents driving me to these things, some of them weren't local. It's not like you're walking down the road. It was also different. My brother used to go around to the local pitch field and there'd be loads of boys playing and he could just join in straight away. And that's also not the reality for girls. You've got to travel further to have that sort of experience. Did you ever play? You were saying about playing in the garden maybe, but when you're playing on the part when your brother's playing, did you ever join in with them? yeah was there ever like a bit of a stigma like hold on what's your sister doing what's your sister doing yeah probably but to be fair my brother never made like a big deal of it and neither did my dad so I always liked playing with boys growing up as well because they were faster stronger and it was always a challenge and I was I was that girl who was like no go on I'll have I'll have a bit of that and um I think that yeah I had a really supportive family like in my I played with my brother and some of his friends and then when I was about 15 16 I joined like playing my dad's five aside seven aside oh my god i loved that and there was a lot of like ex-pros like from forest and county that played and they were all so good even though they were a bit overweight and like you know had lost their fitness by them but their touch was unreal and i was just running like doing it to keep my fitness and try and improve like my distribution as a goalkeeper and stuff but yeah when you obviously then reach the pinnacle right win the euros to save a penalty you know that those moments that you you had did you ever think at that time after that you think back to those times at the park or the times where it was difficult for you definitely i think that like when we won at wembley in 2022 that was like the first thing that came to my mind really when the whistle went was just like oh my god it was worth it like it was worth all that pain heartache all people not believing in me and i felt like i'd given back to my family and the people who'd really believed in me for all those years totally your family seem amazing as well yeah we see them are you quite a reflective person would you say yeah i would say so i think because of yeah different things that i've experienced like i like to have a laugh i like to you know i like to work hard but also football whilst it is my life in a lot of ways it's not the only thing in my life i think that's what i struggle with at that time that we spoke about is like and i don't know how you guys feel about this as well but like when you're a footballer and being the person as well as a footballer and not having your identity as an athlete and your identity as a person like mixing like trying to have two different things like you can go home and be yourself and not just be on all the time like yeah I don't know was there anything like during that of when watching from from home you know and obviously being in a major tournament myself you you try and keep yourself in a bubble yeah was it but it's so hard because it did capture the nation right it's so hard to keep yourself in that bubble was there anything that really was one particular person maybe um who reached out to the group or or even afterwards there's one point you thought oh this is big now i think speaking to sir alex after like when like the united goes so it's me alessia toony and keats at the time we got presented at old troughard with like you know as european champions and then we're in the director's box watching the game i don't even remember what united game we were watching like just that sums everything up of just how much of a blur it was but sir alex like came over and spoke to us but spoke about specific moments in the tournament and he spoke about like a specific save i made against sweden and i was just like this is a joke like what is going on here over the bar yeah that one because i remember because that summer i was in spain that summer okay and i was gutted that i wasn't here right because like you said it took over the nation did you realize how big it was going to be like at the start of the competition because old trafford was sold out brighton sold out wembley was just like you couldn't get a ticket no so did you realize at the beginning because again like what crad said there you're in a bubble and sometimes when you're wrapped in that but it's probably easy to see because it was in this country but you didn't realize like how huge it was yeah it was massive it was massive and the all the games that we played at the euros were sold out but even then like it still felt very much in the women's football bubble yeah um and we would like go for a coffee we'd stay at the hotel and we'd walk around the streets and go for a coffee and like sometimes in our england get like we no one would do that anymore but no one was bothered you know it was just you know and the games were advertised all around us but no one not no one was bothered that's wrong but like it was still very much within a small community of people and then when we got to the semi-finals you could feel people like talking to us in the street and then after we won was like a completely different kettle of fish like it just the game just went crazy yeah and then obviously so I suppose that culminates in you've got an MBE right I do yeah somehow I managed to scrape one of those so now I've got on the list yeah how often do you drop that one in do you do it on the old little select you know when you put your name in or put your bill in or something yeah just at the end of every email or something like that no i don't but whenever i like if i get a letter or something i think bloody hell that's just weird that isn't it that is absolutely is it on your letters sometimes it's on my letters yeah i mean i obviously don't put it there but people address me as that sometimes yeah i mean what what how has your life changed from kind of that moment to to this moment you know beforehand like before and after the tournament oh it's totally different i think the euros was like a big increase for me but the World Cup was like mental.

49:48World Cup sports personality after those. It was a complete, it felt like women's football wasn't just women's football anymore. It was football, but it was also part of like entertainment. Like people were talking about, they were talking about you off the pitch, like who you are as a person, what you look like. So that was just, it was a crazy new world to enter. How difficult is that? Like, you know, like people digging into kind of, you know, your life away from football as well. Because I mean, as certainly as a Premier League player in the men's game, that's just a given, right? You felt like you were just thrown into that.

50:21The minute I played for England, it was the minute I opened my whole life to everything. And obviously that's worked in some ways great. Yeah. And some ways, but you can't take it back. No. You know what I mean? It's like whatever you've done on the pitch, it's been a good thing, but you then can't take that back on. I don't want this anymore. Yeah. Yeah, you're already thrust into it. Yeah. How did you find that? I found that difficult. I think that I don't mind people saying stuff about my football like we're in the court of public opinion like that's just kind of how it is but also I felt like I fell into it accidentally because of like you know us having the success that we've had and different things like we never had that before so like when I signed up to football it was it was not for that you know there wasn't this like Premier League lifestyle or anything like that I mean it's still not for a lot of players now like it's just it and it's so I feel like you can't compare the two at all but I'm trying to reference your point is like to have that as a surprise factor of like oh this like you you feel like well this is what I want I know that's what comes with the Premier League you don't like it or you don't want it but you know it's coming whereas in women's football I had no idea it was coming and just one day it happened and I think as a woman I actually I don't know if you guys have had instances where you felt like not safe as well like if people have you know like if you're in the dark and you're walking home alone you might cross the road if you feel uncomfortable whereas like if people kind of creep up on you which you as a i don't know like maybe maybe i'm just being a bit stereotypical but as a woman also that can be quite scary i don't know yeah of course completely different different thing do you feel like there wasn't that's such you wouldn't have expected to become a Premier League player but you saw these very famous people that were playing in the Premier League before and a certain rock star lifestyle with some of them but there wasn't that didn't really necessarily exist before do you feel like that's a stereotype do you feel like it's not rock star well it's not because I think everyone who plays football did it for has done it for the right reasons they're not doing it to become anything now they're doing it because they love the game right and I think that's just a byproduct of it and I think quite often certainly when you got in the English world I don't think there was probably enough care with the young players i think there is now but i think you know i was a young player say i was reasonably old i think of wayne rooney at 18 i was 23 24 and i got an england squad but all of a sudden i'm thrust in front of 30 journalists in a press conference before a world cup and i'm just expected to be very well spoken not say anything wrong you know if you're if you're an 18 19 year old kid you know it's a difficult thing to do and those at the time the press were very much trying to make you slip up and say the wrong thing so you've all these well you know versed journalists who've been to university and a kid who's you know come just wanted to play football his whole life is in that environment it's it's hard right it's it's a hard thing to to deal with um but i suppose with your scenario you you you girls were kind of the the trailblazers really for yeah for what did that did you feel that did you feel a weight of kind of legacy because no one's done it before you right and and and you went and done that and and now there'll be so many more girls that want to go and play football because of what you've achieved yeah sorry chris i cut you off before but no we do that all the time oh fine you carry on no i think i think that's exactly the thing of of like we we didn't know what was coming we didn't know what to expect there was no blueprint before there was no path like even growing up everything we've done has been pioneering something new and I think we're fortunate that the p the women before us helped carve the the path that that we walked but we felt they were really yeah unseen untread and we've now done that so that the people after us can have a much better experience than what we did have better opportunities and I think that's probably the thing that I'm most proud of of all the trophies is like trying to leave the game in a better place and trying to leave that legacy.

54:34But yeah, it's, it's changing all the time. It's evolving all the time and it's very unknown where everything's going to go. And I think men's football and women's football is so different. I think that's probably the thing that kind of is the trap that people fall into is comparing it all the time. And like, it's totally different. Well, explain why, because I remember talking to Kaz Carney about this and people back then when they were obviously, all the girls were coming onto TV and they were going, look, obviously when you're in the green room and offset, they're like, this is like, why are we getting thrown into this?

55:06It's totally different. Like, it's obviously the same game. It's two teams. It's the same. Same rules. Explain why, because I hear that so many times and people might go, well, why is it so different? Why is the women's game so different to the men's game? But in your, in your opinion, why is that? Why, why do you see it as such a big thing? I think like, first and foremost, physically, men and women are very different. like our bodies do different things different makeups muscle masses speeds like you know and that affects people's yeah ability to sprint after a ball or like how quick the game is or whatever like technically obviously that's a different conversation I think you'll find some incredibly technical players in the women's game some not so technical and in the men's game you find some incredibly technical and then also some not so technical players like everybody has a different role but I feel like in women's football people are waiting to ridicule that all the time whereas in men's football like I think you know obviously the premier league especially has is in the limelight a lot and people want to ridicule certain things but I feel like with women it's like always the same comments and memes of like the same stuff and if it happened in the men's game it's not as focused on but I think in general like the women's game also was banned for a long period of time so hasn't had the opportunity to progress as much it is progressing now and it has been for some time and I do believe women's sports as a whole all over the world is on a train that you can either get on or get out of the way of like it's not stopping whether you like it or not but I think sometimes you get into this thing of well I prefer men's football all right watch that then like you don't have to tell every like that's fine like I enjoy both men's and women's football for the different offerings.

56:45Like, you know, you don't judge like, what's that? I don't know. Albert Einstein as a quote, I was going to make it all philosophical and then I thought we're in the pub. What am I doing? There's a podcast for that. Yeah, what am I doing? I have a similar thing. Like when I do the radio, I'll say, oh, I do Capital Breakfast Show. That's my show that I do. And when someone asks me about it, they'll often say like, oh, I don't listen. and I've always found that kind of like opinion really but it's strange thanks for letting me know like no I get that a lot as well I get that I've no idea who you are but can I have a picture yeah well what the fuck why am I and if I say yeah exactly people do say that they try and put you down and then yeah it's a mad one yeah quite often it happens it happens a lot yeah I don't know if it's a nervous thing that people do yeah I think it might be I don't oh I don't I didn't know why you did that like why did you do that and but can I get a picture now oh will you just sign this for my uncle's dad's brother's dog or something you're like just i don't i don't know you all get it way more than i do but i i just can't it's it is strange like this need to express an opinion like yeah i don't i don't there is a stranger on that um but talk us through the book then what we what we expect from from the book um it feels very honest it feels like you've you've bared your soul a little bit i i have and i know not everyone will appreciate that like you know I'm not expecting everyone to I'm not everyone's cup of tea that's normal but I think I've been really honest really authentic about my experiences in my life personally and professionally and that's new for me because as I say I've always been pretty closed and kept like my private life my personal life very my private life my professional life very separate um but yeah I've been open about so many different things just what I've experienced who I am as a person how I've come to certain decisions um in my life and career and I hope that people can relate to it and it resonates with people and yeah that's what that's what I hope but yeah well I'll let you guys be the judges of it.

58:47Crouch you wrote a good book you did three of them didn't you? It turned into a trilogy. Yeah well you know well the first one went well so I did another one um and that's how it worked. In all honesty this podcast was born out of a book so that might have a view yeah because me and Tom were just promoting the book ended up with this podcast and it's been going what eight, nine years later we're still going so yeah nearly a decade is there some sort of anniversary for that what is it paper, silver we'll have some sort of celebration it's been going on years and years and that's how these things develop what do you see do you overthink your future too much or like how do you see things playing out I mean you're enjoying Paris at the moment right I love Paris yeah and you're happy there I've seen various videos of you online I think you were walking around the training ground doing a few bits and pieces yeah and I mean the training looks incredible like when you're kind of thinking about where you started where you've come from where the women's games to then walking in to that training ground and those facilities must be incredible yeah right I think that like every day pretty much like every day I'm in the training I know that sounds really stupid and soppy but I genuinely walk in sometimes I'll take a little picture on snapchat and i'll send it to i don't know my best mate or whatever but i cannot believe i work here like it's an actual joke like it's actually insane i went professional when i graduated from uni at whatever age that was 21 20 no maybe 22 and since then i've just yeah done what i've loved and it's become a mad job and not that long ago you know i was really not in the position i'm in now i'm just yeah just so so grateful for it really just for people that don't uh know but psg is like their facilities for instance i know there's a lot of wsl teams and uh facilities but that are really really good in this country but are they like is it one of the best around i i think so yeah i think from the videos where the pictures it looks like unreal like often like you have separate bits if you know i mean so the men's building the men have a separate building and the women in academy sort of cross over and share a little bit but it's still really separate within the same building.

1:00:58It's just massive. And the pictures you could eat your dinner off and there's just a specialist gym. We have our own... I don't know if it sounds daft, but the women have got their own car park. I've not ever had that before. So I drive in and I don't have like... The thing that they can step up is they could number all the parking spots with maybe our... If I'm being really fussy now... Oh, she's gone. We've lost our... We've lost our... She's gone. Paris has gone. Listen, I don't want to ask for too much, but yeah when i drive in every morning i just think i cannot believe i work here yeah i cannot believe it what's the food saying i've always got asked this like what's you know what we get ridiculed for our food a lot over there they always say how bad our food is that's what we we go on out over the course of our careers you know every foreign planet came over they think we have ketchup on everything yeah but they don't like beans they hate that we have beans with our breakfast yeah fish and chips like we love that here but it's it's a weird concept to other countries i don't get why they have what our cuisine is what meat and veg well like roast dinners english breakfast yeah i mean yeah what's the problem with that i don't get it do you have the signature herbs um like food at the training ground do you remember the riyadh was it um riyadh pasta wasn't it at city yeah yeah yeah yeah and then all the players started having that one no I have like a lot of like I'm a scrambled egg and bread kind of chica I know living life on the edge and the girls always always take the mick out of me for that I think the food is quite like I'm sorry it's nice but it's not you know it doesn't knock my socks off you know like I'm just being honest is this Paris cuisine in general just French I love it I'm just being honest I'm sorry that's my that's my truth it's nice but like i think also over here we we cook with a lot of like butter fat cream yeah so when i went over there and i was like oh this is actually just vegetables and like chicken that's why they're so healthy that's why you go over there and they're all really slim and in shape i think because we rubbish like even like the pastries and stuff they're not they're not thick with with butter and sugar like you think you are i think oh my god this looks unreal and it's lighter than air and I think I need like seven more.

1:03:21It's no Greggs, is it? No, it's no Greggs. Come on. Come on now. All right, well, listen, good luck with PSG, obviously. And good luck with the book. Thank you very much. And I know you've got lots of other big plans while you're over here at the moment, but good luck with those as well. Thank you. We've got a few little messages. Would you be right to just go through them with us? We'll put you into our podcast world if you don't mind. I would love that. Apologies in advance for some of the language in it. Any questions just ask. Any questions, just please ask. This starts with crochet, womble and ginge.

1:03:57Crochet. Okay. Regards to your families. Long time listener, first time emailer. I was listening to the podcast recently about paint colours, specifically Tancock. If you're thinking about doing paint colours, you're going to need to think up some other ways of describing them. For example, the colour white is never just white, it's brilliant white. Some suggestions below. Paintswell Bonfire Orange. And it's a deep orange that goes on with ease. The colour to choose when you want to shake up the dressing room. You've got Pewter Crouch, a tall, elegant colour with grey undertones that stands head and shoulders above the rest.

1:04:35Nice, here we go. Crystal stark, ice pale blue, frosted like glass. The one colour for a ballroom effect. The colour to choose when you want to chum a womba. Love the part, that's from Gareth Jones. There's a bit of context. If you were a paint colour, what would you be? You'll get this nowhere else on no other interview ever. No, I can safely say no one has ever asked me this question before. Vibrant? Vibrant. Maybe like a greeny colour. Yeah. I'm into my greens. A little emerald. Don't know. We need to play on words, don't we? But yeah. So I get this. So he's kind of basically saying we need to elaborate on the tancock.

1:05:11Sort of like, what's it going to be? Is it going to be a deep or is it going to be a light? Yeah. Well, look, I don't know. I don't know what it's going to be because we've kind of thrown it out there now. we're going to see what comes back hopefully this paint company can get involved and we'll see how it is from there yeah we've developed war and paint alright ok let's move on dear all apologies for these this is a very difficult one no I'm lost but I'm enjoying it yeah go on I will resist all the usual insulting intros but I'm a big fan of the podcast from the start hearing the Owen Hargreaves episode was great naturally there's been a lot of talk about Oktoberfest but there are a couple of points which would make your visit to Munich a reality not needing to wait until October there's an Indian restaurant called the Samrat here in Munich No way.

1:05:50My local Indian was the sound rat. Oh, cool. God rest its soul. Forget Oktoberfest, the more local one in March is more appropriately named after Chris. The Stark Beer Fest. Okay. I mean, this sounds good. Beer's minimum 7.5 to be a part of it. Generally, not such a tourist destination. The League, maybe in the bag for Harry Kane by this time, unable to get him on as a guest on the pod with Owen as an additional co-host. This is brilliant. yeah we're basically trying to blag a free trip to Munich to do the October I mean sounds sounds like you've got the reasons have you ever done Munich have you ever done Oktoberfest I've never done Oktoberfest I've been to Munich yeah a few times I played in Wolfsburg so yeah right how was that playing in Wolfsburg yeah it was it was good it was they were an unbelievable team we won the league and the cup over there and I feel like it was my first introduction to playing for like a really top European team and I've played for a few great clubs since and I'm very, very grateful.

1:06:51But yeah, Germany was very strict, like completely different culture and I didn't know the language at all when I went over. So that was challenging. But yeah, I've been a great time. Cuisine? Where are we preferring the cuisine? I'm going to go... You know what? Germany's good. Like simple. It's got your bangers and mash. That's what I'm saying. Just what you need on the plate. That's it. It's right there. Love it. You know, when you went to PSG and you started there, was it... How was that move in terms of just sort of imposing yourself, especially as a goalkeeper, were you able to go in there with sort of full confidence or did it feel like, because there was so much talk and noise around that move, was it a bit of a battle to not let it intimidate you as a massive club and obviously a massive high profile signing?

1:07:37Yeah, I think I went in with, yeah, full of confidence. Like I think when you start a new chapter and you move to a new club, you're like well I can't speak on behalf of everyone but I think normally you feel really yeah come on let's let's go for it and I did when I when I went there I think women's football there is not as advanced as here so that was kind of taking a step back in time but I kind of made that move for a number of different reasons but I wanted to just focus on football that's you know the facilities and everything and um at first I it was difficult with the the noise a little bit but also just transitioning new club new culture um they do things so differently over there you know my big english personality i didn't know you know how it would be received but the girls have been amazing with me and i've loved it and they're incredibly incredibly talented um and i feel like i'm learning every day so yeah it's been it's been a lot of fun but it was hard at the beginning for sure and how's your french coming on it's not bad it's improving yeah i'm taking lessons my french teacher actually texted me this morning double checking we are still on for our lesson tomorrow so yeah i try and get a lesson in like once a week and yeah but then when when you do the lesson do you then have to sort of deploy the french in the next like are you introducing it slowly are you sort of banking it up and then you're just going to go fully french no i don't think it's one of them where i can understand more than i can speak and if you ask me a question it's probably going to take me like five to ten working days to get back to you yeah like because it's just so hard to like oh I can understand what you're saying but I can't formulate a sentence yeah do you try learn football talk yeah football talk first because that is such an important part of my job so it's a lot of French swearing no I don't swear in French ish maybe a little um but yeah I have to be able to communicate and a lot of the French girls actually don't speak English or like that good English um that good English neither do I apparently um and yeah so to be able to tell them like left it's such a big part of my or the way my style of goalkeeping communication is a massive part so um yeah i've had to learn it quick i got i got a french sheet of like football vocabulary from the goalkeeper coach in like one of the first weeks and i was overwhelmed what sort of stuff's on there what sort of bollocking defenders yeah right left get up get back market player yeah yeah that kind of thing because it's always the goalies that have to go Yeah, it's true that, yeah, Barton organisation.

1:10:04And solve a problem in French when you can't speak French is quite challenging. Yeah. I suppose because it's so quickfire as well. You want to just say it in English because you want to be quick. No, exactly. To think about the translation is difficult. It's so hard, especially as a goalkeeper as well. Obviously, that's a big leadership position. So if there's a part of the pitch that's not working out, and you're in formation and you're doing your game plan, but sometimes things change or you know there's an individual bit of brilliance or you want to give an extra bit of detail from something you can see because you can see the whole pitch to try and communicate that in real time and find the right words that people are going to understand is challenging but yeah I'm working at it can't wait to hear you breaking out the French not on this podcast beautiful bonnet de douche mange too Rodney mange too been a pleasure Mary great having you on thanks for having me guys appreciate it This episode is brought to you by a load of pricks.net.

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