After the busy Christmas fixture period, Crouchy, Chris and Sids decide to have a bit of a mid season review of their own

The lads reflect on the impact that the busy Christmas schedule can have on teams who start to stutter and suffer burnout, as well as those teams who welcome the slowed down schedules in January.

Not only is it tough at the top, but the relegation zone isn’t too much fun either! The lads look at the teams on the other end of the table who will be feeling the heat in the second half of the season and those teams snapping at their heals in the playoff battles.

On a separate note, Crouchy also gives a bit of insight on who some of his dream guests on the podcast would be including Not Sir David Beckham, Kim Jong Un and the one and only Sir Rod Stewart!

Chumbawamba!

00:01 Intro
03:01 Nature vs. Nurture
06:14 Dream Guests for the Podcast
10:27 Hole in One
15:31 Touchline Ban
18:45 Managerial Aspirations
20:11 Mid-Season Reflection
24:12 Thoughts on FA Cup and VAR
27:21 Bottom of the League
32:27 Changing Dynamics
36:10 These H*es aint Loyal
40:03 Watford Forever
43:58 Playoffs
53:09 Premier League Title Predictions
59:45 Sleep Talking Stories
01:07:47 Wrap Up

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Hello and welcome back to that P Crouch podcast with me Peter Crouch uh I’ve got Stephen James Sidwell here and Chris Francis Stark nice why why are the full names today well I just thought you know we’re in a new year now and um we are it’s maybe we

Should change it all up you I mean like let’s start with that and see where it evolves what’s your one James James it was yours you didn’t say yours James as well was it PJ do you know what James your name do you know why you’ve inherited that name

Is that uh no any reason no family no no grandads I mean I’ve got grandads but he’s not after them my James is is but bzar throughout like my dad and his dad are are James their first name is James passed down but they call their middle

Name one my dad’s name is Bruce yeah but H so hang on so on his passport would be James Bruce Crouch really but he’s called Bruce whereas his dad would would be James Michael yeah but it’s called Mike so I’m the only one who’s I should

Be James James Peter but be called Peter but are you passing down the middle name James to your kids no well you got that’s you sort got to do that haven’t you do you think I think so I think it’s kind of you’re given a middle name it’s

Like Francis in my family seems to have been passed down so I felt obliged to then oh you done it as well well yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I’ve done it to my young my uh yeah my last son but what I means I don’t know who this Francis is

So at some point my ancestry there’s some character called Francis obviously meant a lot to someone and now has been passed down without question I don’t know who he is could be a wrong I think it seems quite appealing going on that show right to learn about your ancestors

You must have been asked yeah yeah bad sometimes isn’t it that’s what I’m saying you assume it’s going to be fine but Steve like I could be I could be right in trouble I don’t think you can be Associated to that you know I don’t think you could judge someone

From what your ancestors done you think would you look at me differently if my ancestors were you know I don’t know something really bad what would you look at me differently can’t I I think you can’t help but feel you would have inherited some of the traits of you know

Some and they they got in the blood it’s in the blood it’s in there somewhere if if needs be I’d love us to all do something like that I would love us to explore it because I’d be interested to know in the whole sort of football argument of nature vers

Nurture if there is something that is kind of a product of all your ancestors and that which made you two exceptionally good at football and me slightly less than average what what is the difference were your ancestors playing the original game I don’t know um I’ve done the test the saliva test with

The but that’s yeah but that sort of tells you what you’re made up in general stats right what I think we need is someone to come and investigate the Sidwell family tree so like for example for example did I think you two because you got a bit of an ego on you

Both haven’t you like you you both probably assume you’re the most successful person to ever have existed in your family tree present present family tree yeah I mean do you think that thought about it’s probably true I mean you’re basically you’re getting out where does the town and dark skin come

From isn’t it that’s what you’re looking at I’m saying well M I’m just saying there’s probably stories there something has made the great Steve Sidwell the great Steve Sidwell Something’s Happened it’s not just down to you it’s your ancestors as well and I’d love to learn

A bit more about that I think it would be a fascinating dive into what makes Elite footballers let’s all do it let’s all do it well you know having said that I did I did manage to prick my finger and I am I’m not gluten in torant did

You do your Christmas present yeah well I had to buy my own cuz that one broke I’m sorry mate but uh yeah I I was actually interested was that a relief yeah yeah I mean I I think it would have been similar if I was includ torent as well but yeah you

Know um slightly different uh sort of course here the Neil warn up Podcast the last two that have gone out have been exceptionally well received yeah he does say the same thing over and over again are you with me are you with me are you

With me the thing is we were with him all the way and I’m glad about that great guest he said it so many times didn’t he and you know we’ve talked about this before but obviously getting into to to to this year what have you got a dream guess now

We achieved Elton last year war you know there was Idris Ela you know there was lots of lots of good guest on there Jason curis anyone you you fancy this year yeah there is perhaps get in touch as well if you want to who who you want on

No you’re right to do this cuz occasionally we do sort of throw it out there and get a bit of a refresh and it’s a bit of a kick up the ass for all of us to kind of um get some of these people on because you know we I really

Do think we can have anyone on I quite like it when it’s like a footballer as someone from a different slightly different trade but in in the circles of football perhaps I quite liked it when we split it up Elton John was a good shout you know I’d love beckon I’ve said

This to you for years um I still think you’re reluctant to put the message in but you know at some point it would be great get think we should we should definitely trying to get him on yeah I’ve Got a Feeling 24 could be big I think it’s I think it’s it could

Potentially be one of the biggest what ever what just years well do you mean podcast that’s what I’m aiming for personally but as in guest wise I think he potentially well is there anyone is there anyone just looking back on think of young SIDS right we saw him on

The watch chicken and fall down what would be the dream if I was to you can we can get anyone on this podcast put on me a little bit there well it can and it doesn’t need to be doesn’t need to be the most famous person just needs to be personal to you

Let me come back to you all right especially footballer I think that would be nice like someone that you really really looked up to when you were younger yeah I reckon we can we you know we can with a good sh anyone can do it a million per crouchy got anyone that you

Want um who would I like on you know like quite Liam gallager was a good one it yeah um someone on that kind of that kind of pathway do you know what who I’d like on who who we loved at darts Luke ller I’d like to speak to him I think

You know sometimes you have people that burst on the scene at kind of 16 and I think they had a list and I was watching darts they they had a list of the people that went on we won things at 16 obviously it was before he lost but Z

Martina Hingis obviously like Wayne Rooney there was people 16 what theyve achieved and they all gone on to massive things I just it’d be interesting to see where his heads at like at this age but do you think that’s part of the problem is he’s had this massive success age 16

That in a weird kind of way to keep Luke liter with the best possible opportunities of doing the very best he can because he’s managed to get this far on his own without all this attention everything and a lot of the criticism is suddenly he’s out doing all interviews

And things like that maybe the best thing we could do as a podcast is almost run a campaign to say in fact we’re not going to get you on the podcast do you know I mean like we’ll be the only media out there that going to

Publicly go out there and say we don’t want luk on because we want him to concentrate on his face on the ground yeah I I don’t know I just think that might be but you know if you have that success age 16 it can and I I don’t I’m not saying

This to kind of preempt anything that can happen with him but this amount of weird attention that appears you must have seen it have I guess galvanized some players and people but it does have a negative effect as well you must have seen it I wouldn’t like it person I

Don’t know how you were 16 I was Miles off it really like I didn’t get kind of well known really I mean even when I was playing for QPR 18 and Portsmouth at 19 I was still playing the championship and I was kind of getting away with it it’s

Only when I went to Villa people in football started recognizing me but only when I played for England really that I was like kind of on that on that level where people everywhere kind of recognize you but I was 23 then and I was still making mistakes yeah I can’t

Think think of 60 that’s seven more years yeah do you think there sort of a tension do you think it has on the balance of things is it more detrimental than positive because in one way I guess you get all your sponsorship and the increased awareness means he’s doing

Premier league and all all that sort of yeah think it’s good it’s good for him in some it depends on the individual if they if they’ve got the mindset that can carry off and that can do it some some can’t I think Joe Cole look at Joe like

Joe when he was 14 they had hype when he was 14 see those players as well have fallen by the wayside like players that I’ve played with like in a youth team who were just so far ahead of everyone and then just struggle to kind of cope

With it all um and and struggle to meet the demands or the pressure really I I would I would never I wouldn’t change my path at all I think it gave me a good grounding and then you know things happened for me at the right time I

Could cope with it well maybe that’s what we do with Luke we give him a couple more years let him get uh you know win win the Worlds at some point and then invite him on the podcast after that and until then should we just operate a policy of everyone should

Leave luk ler alone let him do his I totally agree unless he wants to come on just but it has to be his choice oh yeah listen you know hopefully he’s got good people around here we’re making a stand we do not want Luke L on the

Podcast for his own good we’re helping him out so just talking of darts quickly before we move on um this question come up over Christmas and it it was a SP a huge debate um it was what do you think is harder out of these three put these

Three in order a hole in one a 147 snooker maximum break or a nine data oh I think the ho okay I think ho in one’s the easiest in my opinion because I think even though you’re aiming for that and everyone you’re not realistically

Hoping to get it in so it’s a it’s a relaxed hit and hope situation my my problem is I think even if you’re a bad golfer you can get a hole in one yeah whereas for me 147 is unachievable for anyone who’s not a proper snooker player

Yeah a nine da even right it’s still nine dots you know it’s so hard I think the nine daa is harder than 147 than 147 this is this spark debate I was I’m the same so we’re in agreement yeah so I think again the um easiest out of the

Lot which is crazy to say it would be a ho in one yeah because you could you know if it’s 130 yard it’s ridiculous but you every time you have a shot go this could go in yeah so it’s two and three isn’t it it’s what’s the hardest

Out of a 147 and a nine Dart I think I think the hardest is 147 I do but then nine darts should I tell you why cuz I think the only reason I say the darts over is because the 147 I think is a it’s kind of a well

Rehearsed routine was I think the darts it as it gets increasingly more diff difficult I think I don’t know the pressure of it or to to get nine do think the pressure of the 147 it does increase usually when you get to the yellow yeah the green you know what I

Mean the brown yeah then you’ve got the black and it’s a tight one for the 147 like that amount of pressure on that black yeah it was a big one it SP it sparked a bit of controversy you’ve both gone 14 SS on that yeah I mean you’re

Probably right no listen I think at n da is absolutely exceptional and the thing is it’s probably it’s harder probably for a professional darts player to get a nine daa than it is for a professional snooker player to get a 147 if you know what I mean cuz if you’re Ronnie for

Instance has got loads of them do you know what I mean but I don’t think darts players have multiple nine dats do they because it’s I think it’s more difficult for a professional not I’m as a you know a novice whatever you could get lucky with a nine daa there’s no way there’s

No way NS you could I mean you could it’s nine DTS wow how many shots how many shot six lipsticks and then you finish it off all right okay it’s absolutely ridiculous but what I’m saying is yeah I know there’s so there’s so many shots to go through and so many different variations

Where if you got a still dartboard and a you know whereas you know there’s so many variations of a snooker table and you’ve got so many more shots to get through do you think are you doing this if you’re doing this properly then you need to test it with a

Novice right so you need say in room and she’s not allowed to leave until she’s hit she’s done 147 right how many days that would take You’ be happy against then she goes in a room and how long would it take her for a nine nine so you asking me to lock Abby

Away in a dark room I’m saying if she was willing to do it for charity I’d sponsor her [ __ ] charity we wouldn’t see it come out a beard this long but how many days i’ be arrested how many days would it take ABY glancy nine D this you to do n that’s

The thing I she’d have more chance at the nine da because she knows how to hold a dart she can’t hold a que straight away I think she’d have more child listen you know we we try this for Cherry but you might not see

Us see us for about 15 years you let me ask her if she’d do it for charity like can you but you’re I guess you’re right if this is a test of what’s more difficult I think it would take Abby clency Long more days or weeks to come

Out of that room having completed a 147 that’s what I mean and I think that clears up our argument what I mean what I’m saying is I think she could she could get uh a nine data in 3 years consistent have to test food and water water just die oh yeah yeah yeah

Yeah it’s not that she’s deprived of anything okay it’s just she has basement yeah yeah I don’t know why I like the idea of being she’s in a room room’s a game room the room with board trying to break her as well mentally oh god listen I’ll put it see

How we get on yeah please just before we get started as well I know we what we are doing we in the mid-season point in the Premier League this year you know loads to go on interesting to see how we how we get on with the second half of

The season but before we start I just wanted to say um ex Spurs player someone I played with actually Pascal Chima is currently managing schemale United and was issued with a five match touchline ban after being sent off following an appeal this ban was reduced to three

Games it what appears to be a move to try and stay in The Dugout Chim bod has now registered himself as a player what to be on the bench right so so he’s the manager but he’s he’s now registered himself as a player well so therefore therefore he can put

Himself on the bench and conduct management I like that is [ __ ] I like that it’s quite Petty because I still feel if you’re a manager you don’t need to be in The Dugout do you for the sake of three games do you know what I mean

It’s a lot of hassle to go to to just prove prove a point well I mean I think it matters more when I mean I’m I’m assuming it’s a small stadium or if they got a stadium scale’s up by Liverpool it yeah um I think it matters more when it’s you know

Like it’s right on the touch line and you can hear ones that are up in the stands and or they’re or they you know it doesn’t doesn’t matter but I think that non- League ones or the lower leagues that I think it that’s massive

They need to be there I I can’t I can’t say Pascal CH without without saying this uh we you know we used to call it uh when you go out for a walk we can out for a pascal Wonder go for a Wonder a wonder and he

Just used to he got caught so even now my vocabulary now go out for a little pasc out I AG tickles Christmas Pascal little Christmas Pascal taking a dog for Pascal oh no this is is this a known thing is this just my vocab no no no cuz I’m

Concerned it’s about to me we take a little Pascal uh to go for a hesy to go for a Wonder to get go for a meal a sponsored Pascal yeah all good fun but yeah I didn’t when I was playing with him I didn’t uh I’ll be honest with you I’m

Not sure if I didn’t see him as a manager and it’s it’s a strange one that he was kind of he’s up there I know he finished to kind of donc cast one at car we went to maybe it’s a place where you can fall in love like Newcastle maybe

Maybe he’s fell in love there yeah what’s um is is he the kind of player that you as you’re saying there like you didn’t really expect to be manager does that happen a lot or do you sort of know the managers are going to be no I think

There there’s a few now that have have taken to it you didn’t think maybe would it’s I think it’s quite common isn’t it it’s been a few Mark Hughes was definitely one that a lot of people said no one could ever see him being a

Manager why was that he was he was like the F he was like the last in train the first out like gone in the car when L the lad kind in the gym he was he was gone pretty quiet apparently quiet yeah you’ll get a few there that would be

Like a they’ be like oh yeah he definitely can do tell you who is a banker parched got we should touch on parched big news you know and like you know I knew he’d be a manager did he loved it he L talking to managers obviously and uh he liked picking their

Brains uh and I think I think he’ be a real success there and obviously as a podcast want to wish Charlie Adam all the best at Fleetwood New role definitely I feel like we’ve got an inside guy there now um I don’t know cuz he’s been so involved with this podcast

I kind of feel like but if you’re a player there you’re wanting I mean he is parched right famously I know where you’re going with how are the players going to act around this because he can sense a fellow parch of course he can of

Course he I think he I think he’ll enjoy it parch knows parch You doesn’t it it’s that Spider-Man one where he’s pointing the Spiderman oh yeah but he’s listen he I think he’ll Embrace that I like I think he’ll enjo he’ll enjoy having the players around him speaking to him um but he knows his stuff and he’s always wanted to get into

It even when I’m we used to stay in the hotel um before the Stoke games and he’s a football man you know what I mean and football men deserve to be in the in those positions and and I’m glad he’s got the job and good luck to him do you

Think given he is the original parch do you think he’ll now parch the chairman will it go up no doubt yeah it’ll have it’ll have to happen that no doubt yeah and he’ll do he’ll do a good job there what guy go on parch yeah yeah good luck

Mate saw um when that was announced I saw loads of comments underneath you know where it pops up on like BBC Sports Sky Sports breaking news and getting tagged in loads of them and it was uh Fleetwood midges are terrified wrot that Fleetwood mid [ __ ] brilliant oh I love it so

Yeah this episode is really just a bit of a kind of um I guess a checkpoint in the season isn’t it you reach this point yeah like a halim and and as a podcast we’re kind of doing the same as well over that Christmas break it’s an

Interesting one isn’t it there’s a lot of talk about this busy schedules lots of games do you know you said something just before we started there Sid about about hurry Kane and the games that Tottenham had yeah so did we say this so we play golf with one of uh Harry’s

Friends and um he’s obviously had a break in Germany the season shut down and in that time frame where he’s last game was and when his first game will start Spurs have played four games so he have played four games that’s a lot of like considering he’s he’s had his feet

Up whatever and then he gets into like a mini preseason in a short space of time as well yeah but that be that’ be the first time that he’s had that I know that might bod well for us in the summer with England oh right of course I mean

Cuz I sometimes I think certainly in Harry KY made always going to start him because he’s you know he our main man um C but at times he he feels like he hasn’t quite been himself you what I mean I’m hoping this year that you know kind of

With that break it might might really help him it does feel like that maybe the you know the change that obviously happened and it’s all uh feels like with Harry Kane now there’s just a lot of positive focus on him because you’re only really talking about the goals that

He’s scoring and you know I’m aware obviously there’s a lot of fans of That League but there are generally speaking I think people are a bit more distant from it to to kind of all you’re hearing about Harry Kane’s positive thing do you know what I mean that maybe that

Pressure might be slightly off them when playing for the national team but it’s m obviously now obviously there’s a winter break now as well which is pretty pretty bizarre um like obviously like half the team’s playing it’s not a real one is it it’s like a like a fake Break yeah there

Are some teams that I’ve gone away as well yeah I know a few players a few clubs that have gone away as a team like a midseason already like because they normally do in February don’t they you got You’ go they’ve done it tocharge yeah if you got the cup quite

Often like it’s it was it was was a bit of sweet bit of sweet sometimes like obviously you want to win the cup competition and you want to get through and but you then go if you do go out at least you do get a little

Break yeah I see what you mean but I just think sometimes you know if you’re you’re not a big Club you go right we can win this yeah I mean if you’re if you’re at a club that you don’t can you win it it’s like it’s obviously you go

All out to win it you know I mean of course but if you do go out it’s a nice little break you get yeah yeah but then we’ve always said this as a podcast we’re very much for the FA Cup aren’t we and we hold it and I love it and I love

I love the weekend we had you know a couple of weeks ago like that cup weekends you know I I love those games like I buzz off watching them you know watching um watching uh Maidstone for instance like getting through you know like Watford left it late they left it

Late that was a that was a good game and I still I watch these games and I can’t go over what we were saying before about doing the FA Cup draws and sending team and I remember they were to I was watching the um Arsenal Liverpool game

And uh their commentators on now I think Shar was saying it’s a stinker of a draw this for both teams because they don’t want to be seeing each other in the third round you know and and having to arm up basically to to you know give it

A good go and um yeah I just thought yeah but it all comes from someone just drawing out the Hat I love everything about it the one thing I would say i’ be interested to know what you you boys think of it and I’m a bit confused by it

Is I don’t understand how you can have V in some games of the FA Cup and and not others and that not be seen as an advantage so constant talking about it like obviously going away and not having V and saying it you had to play a different way yeah cuz he’s saying

Obviously we play a high line usually but we had to it’s like so you do basically making it that you do have to play a different way if there’s V or not well yeah because obviously you do have to play a different way because refs obviously ref

It differently you don’t ref the game the same way with or without V yeah my thing is that’s fine because the argument would be well both teams are deal both team it’s not like one team it’s got but my thing is if you’re not used to playing with it week in week out

That must be that must be an advantage but look minor criticism about about the FA Cup so far it’s been a lot of fun no I enjoyed it enjoyed it are you going to be doing one of the draws this year well I don’t know I

Don’t know I’ve not been asked since my rod um that’s a disgrace they should give you one of year I thought I mean I feel like it was it was it was probably one of the best performances in recent years I think that’s that’s the best way to leave

It you nailed it and then I mean if you went back in now people would expect you to do something the goat yeah then I feel like it’s like it’s a bit like the robot at you’d have to do the robot well no no but I’m just saying you’d have to

You’d have to top it by doing that no but I feel like you know like sometime when I did the road and it was like I need to I need to rain it back in keep keep it magic yeah think with the rod you got in youve done the rod you going

And do the rod again I don’t I think you you know what you’ve just nailed though who I’d like on this podcast R Rod Stewart would be amazing wouldn’t it oh loves his football loves his football loves his football that that is that that is definitely a go of that yeah all

Right well let’s throw it out there let’s try to get Rod Stewart on the Pod we’re still trying to get down yeah Rod Stewart and um the original Ronaldo as well original Ronaldo he’s he’s he’s over who’s the other one um Kim Jong Kim Jon I think we should do away with Kim

Jo yeah I just I don’t just have it burn away in the background all right the only reason the only reason I’ll put a question mark because the only the only reason why I think it’ be interesting to do is if we get an away day to North Korea um you know like

Dennis robman did only because uh he do you remember he got he went there and then came back with all sorts of stories and things like that and it’ be interesting to see that place um I think we’re going to struggle to get Kim Jong

And brw dog yeah maybe and also I I don’t know morally it feels a bit iffy yeah all right David beckup as well love one yes I saw he got skipped over in the new year did not to David not yet unfortunately not Yet at this stage of the season right if you’re one of the teams bottom of the league how much does it play on your mind how much how much is the Panic how much does the club change does the manager or the sort of feel around the training ground change well it’s

Normally the time where a change of manager happens just maybe January February of course and and obviously January signings as well January signings change of possible change of manager so you know if it’s not going well that there’s going to be some sacrifices and it’s not nice when the

Manager goes I’ve been there yeah yeah well so if you’re sheffi United right you’re nine points right uh you’re you’re a drift at a minute it’s seven points from safety you I think you look you look at Luton and you you look to them and like they were a drift right

They’ve gone everyone wrote them off and look up now what they Point behind yeah like they’ve picked up they’re looking better yeah but I think with Luton they never they never claimed to be anything other than they were from the start this season it was like the fans were just

Going to enjoy themselves do you remember they were celebrating the losses right at the start anyway and actually they’ve kind of found their place and come good and all the stuff that happened with Tom as as well um I think has really galvanized that that team and um obviously we all wish him

Well uh but is staggering seeing how they can just grind out these results that’s what you want I mean I I expected if you said to at the beginning of the Season who’s going to go down I would have had them three in and around it I wouldn’t have had them three exactly

Down there I would have had Burnley probably out of the three of them a couple of spots above but it’s been tough but it looks like L are the ones that could definitely but what is it like being when you’re in that position how much do you feel it on

The training ground how much do you feel like is it is it kind of is it stressful starting to turn off it never leaves you like it never leaves you like when you’re down there like that you’re thinking about and the worst thing is you when you when you drive through the

Gates you look at the the the the fellas on the gate you look at the receptionist then you go upstairs and you got all the people the secretary everyone and they’re all looking at you like [ __ ] come on what I mean like it’s everyone’s jobs it’s it’s really tangible is it

Yeah you just feel the nervousness and it’s like you know you don’t know like I know there’s players certainly when we were at Stoke there were players that didn’t feel like that like I I did I Fel I felt like we letting these people down you know like if generally felt it

Wasn’t really just letting ourselves down it wasn’t you selfishly you want to stay up for you yeah but but it’s everyone around the place and the you know everyone you see at the petrol station is like come on and like every everywhere you go you feel a nervousness

About the the relegation that’s imminent or or potentially could happen do you think that compounds the issue or does it give you the motivation to kick onit both it’s hard isn’t it down you’re down there for a reason because you haven’t won football matches and then it starts

To become out of your control that you start not literally praying but you your take by any means just to get a win other than performing really well you’ll be like just give us three points today someone just cuz you obviously that’s why you’re down there so inconsistent

You’re not getting the wins and they say oh winning breeds momentum where it don’t you win one you’re thinking even the next week you’re just praying to get another three points I think to stay up yeah like as a manager I think I think the best way to play it and the ways

That I’ve played it when we we have got outfit or done well is is when you kind of you leave that all at the do you know what I mean like you don’t don’t weigh that on on the team I think the moment you start feeling the pressure of all

Those people I think you know there are players that that might go under what I mean or might like or might it might be a harder environment than if you’re smiling laughing joking relaxing I think you need to be relaxed to win football gam but that comes from the manager I

Imagine as well the way they it um do you think that there is an added pressure when you’re in that situation being a striker compared to other positions just because you know you can make changes to a team and a system but from the outside looking in when you’re

Starting to feel a tiny bit more desperate and you’re looking towards the end of the season it’s kind of like just [ __ ] score goals yeah yeah but it’s like majority of time when you’re down there is when you cuz you’re conceding goals is it yeah I think and also the

Strikers will just say I’m not scoring because I’m not getting supplied they can’t just go well I can’t just score goals at a thin air otherwise I be I’ll be up the top end of the table yeah just thinking about like that they always the nervousness and that like

Around games and things like that you go like this month we go well we got this one that one that one they must win games and then you lose that one you go well these are these are so important now then you lose that one you yeah you

Can’t that’s the worst when you start looking to going got chance that one yeah we’ll win that one well at least we got them two games coming up and you lose them oh how does it how does The Strain play out does it cause arguments amongst teammates have you both been in

Situations where actually you’re looking around to the person next to you and going like well come on like you’re not making the change that I’m asking yeah fingers pointed blame there’s nothing worse is there when you know when players are uh everyone’s passing Buck no one wants to take responsibility

Themselves that’s when you know you’re in a bad place and I’m listen I’m not I’ve not really seen that like certainly with Luton I’ve not seen it no even Burnley I don’t think know shifford United have been yeah if there’s three teams down there that still be solid

Dressing room it be them free what are you guys like in that situation what what did you do to help change that situation how would you say you were a positive influencer I felt like I could have done more we went down with Stoke I went down with I went down with

Southampton I was still quite a bit of a young player I was a bit new to it and there was a lot more senior professionals than me but when I was at sto I was a senior player and I was playing and uh I felt like I could have

Done more there like I let people get away with a bit of bit bit too easy going if you know what I mean were you doing that just just because I mean why would you why would you let them get away with it well it’s not I was letting

Them get away with it you I’m still a player and their player you know I mean I’m I’m only one of their teammates and it was kind of like down to the manager and at times I did I did say things towards the end like you know this is

Not right but it kind of felt it was I felt like it was too late that’s something I regret like I feel like I should have [ __ ] nipped things in the bud when they started rather than towards the end when we were desperate you know should have gone actually this

Is not right but I just wasn’t that kind of character I mean I’m not like I don’t know would that have been at this point of the Season would that have been sort of post Christmas kind of you tell well before Christmas I could tell pre-season

Things went right did you do you know well I was there was I I’d left by then but I went down with Fulham and it’s funny to say that because I never forget Scott par said it after one of the games he was only about eight or nine games in and he

Could see he’d been there with West Ham and he could see that experience and he said I never forget he was like boys if we don’t P our finger out promise you now we are going to go down do you think people believed him meant it and I no

Because it oh we’d be right we’ be fine we we’ll get we’ll get a run going before you know it that nine games quickly turns into 19 and it’s like oh okay and then you are in it that’s where I was with Stoke like I preseason I was

Like whoa like this is this is not not normal like this is not how we’ve been every year and quite often the last couple of years before that we had players in around it and then it was like you kind of we kind of brought back the Old Guard around around this

Christmas period now like around that time where it was like you’d bring back John walers Glenn weand you know Robert hoof um you know players that you need you could depend on around that kind of Christmas period we we Nick points and win points get us out of the [ __ ] that

We were in then the the last time when we got relegated those boys had gone I remember we couldn’t turn to John W he left you know we couldn’t turn to to Glenn wheen we couldn’t turn to it was like Robert hoof there was certain players that would would always kind of

Cross around then cross he he would play every game but it was a few that out the picture that would trying to get phased out that would always come in and Nick his points yeah and when once we turned around it was like well and you looked

At the bench and he thought well no no he’s not going to help us you know and I go this way go nah he’s not he doesn’t fancy it and you could see it and that’s when unfortunately you’re in a position that where you go down and then being

Able to sort of turn that ship around like you listen to Scott Parker and like everyone gets a kick up the ass do you think at this point in the season that’s an achievable thing to do without changing the manager or do you think you’ve really if it’s that sort of

Tricky you got to you got to change things at the top to be able to get a message to an entire Squad rather than just individuals I think they will be maybe a quiet conversation between the hierarchy and a senior player whether it be a

Captain and just a go look what is the mood like in the dressing room is of are you still for the manager to someone that they can reely on if they didn’t know that there was someone that they could have that quiet word with in um go that’s a massive

Question to be asked isn’t it you ever been asked it um no not in a direct way cuz the year we went down with fulam we had had Martin y Renee millstein and then M Felix MCAT yeah all in the season so there was a kind of a

Conversation but it wasn’t look as he lost addressing them not nice that is it no it’s not is it because someone’s job is it yeah but also how as a player I don’t know how you answer answer that question if the person that you have kind of probably quite an indirect

Relationship starts asking questions saying you still with the manager or you got to say you’re with them surely of course yeah got to yeah or you just be totally honest and you just go look I don’t I don’t think it’s working I think you can be honest just say I I’m not not

Sure not that he’s the right man for the job you just say look I I’m not sure the methods are going to keep us up but then equally do you like what you it’s a bit of a loaded question I assume you do with what you see with Luton where is

They’re at they’re at the bottom but they’re sticking with their manager and you can see that he’s coming out and fighting every game they they you can tell that they all love him you know they like and listen we know him I know him you played with at Villa like top

Man great lad like you I want him to do well you I mean I’m not even in that dress room and um you know you as much as you’re a Watford fan you want to see him do well because he’s a he’s a good lad

So um whenever I see him and I see his players you can tell that they’re playing not there’s no suspicion of that with Luton ashole like they’re they’re willing to die for him I’d say but you know how you get Michael bé only comes out at

Christmas is the season now for Big Sam isn’t it like this is hisil war nil Warner this is their Christmas this is their this is their time isn’t it yeah I think I I’m not sure Bo and Sam Bo blade Sam alliz off it’s true though is it where does po

Does he hibernate the rest of the time he does yeah like big Sam in in the rest of the year I don’t know what big Sam gets up to but then he appears round about now doesn’t he does I I think they I think their time’s done what the what

The relegation big Sam big Sam or cuz there’s question Mar is not coming back mate boade saw on the Asda advert this year that is it as yeah you’re right it was on one of them wasn’t but I don’t know I’m star you starting to see a few more people

Knocking about at Christmas now aren’t you what you feel like blo blaz time’s come know I just wonder if he’s got a monopoly on it anymore we’ll see we’ll see what next we’ll see but I’m not sure if Ty big Sam’s time might be passed as well you know what

It’d be also interested to speak to a manager that’s been in that scenario where when they have that convo with the board and the the owner where they they might have the cono where it says listen we cannot go down so it’s obviously on you there’s going to be a time where we

Will have to call upon it but so that manager then has to go wow okay I’m on a countdown now one game two games five games I don’t know how many games I’ve got but if we get worse all right well that’s the bottom of the league uh obviously we touch on

The top of the league but people will always do that I want to look at the championship are wat can Watford do it yeah they actually can yeah do you honestly think yeah 36 points sing on 40 so that’s for the playoffs yeah but you’re missing the main thing here which

Is if you look at the results in the last five games you’re seeing one loss there obviously that’s at the time that we record this um and what you’re seeing is a huge difference between what was happening with Watford at the start of the Season as opposed to what is continuing to

Happen throughout it so I think that actually the thing is with clubs like Watford it’s as interesting as the question may be around I switch town where who are flying but aren’t now getting enough results I think to stay second and my view the wonderful thing

About the championship is as long as you can be in or around the playoffs oh you’re in with a great shot because then you’re entering a tournament aren’t you you’re not it’s not League football anymore it’s totally agree it’s it’s feels like a cup game when you turn up

As a fan it’s good to see some big clubs up there as well so good I mean all Premier League Southampton leads West Brom Sunland from Sunderland yeah sundland last 10 years all of them I don’t I think you’re right I think I mean lip switch come out for flyer Southampton I

Think would be the ones it’s leester Southampton yeah go up for me a minute yeah and they’ve got new up at Southampton and it it’s um yeah there were a good bunch of lads there and I think uh I think if you look at southampton’s form over the last few

Games it’s obscene how many how many results they’re getting and it’s the opposite to what we were talking about earlier which is it feels like you get through that Christmas period And it it’s now really interesting to see how these teams have changed from the start of the Season clubs like Watford were

Getting a lot of criticism because you know it wasn’t clear what the identity of that team was but personally speaking I don’t think we’re the greatest team or anything but at least I see I think we’re a million miles away from what we were last season

And I see a team that can be competitive we’re going to lose a lot of games but as long as we win the right ones in around the playoffs and we can stay in that area um I think there’s every chance but that’s the be I love the

Playoffs you know I can heart back to the Watford Leicester game um incredible but those moments come from that incredible system that’s there no I love the playoffs yeah nothing better is there and do did you as players like when you click into playoff mode it must

Feel differently as well must feel more like games you never You’ never had to I thought you would have no I didn’t play only couple seasons of Championship I never played in the playoffs did you not just straight up uh no I didn’t go up either only had QPR we got

Relegated if I played with Norwich I went on loan oh we won it yeah so I’ve got a championship I got medal um never had to do it VI the playoffs never never played one game in the playoffs big man doesn’t do playoffs no no why should He I’d like to I love those games you know like they uh watching those games on telly were just the best I I would prefer to watch the a playoff game than you know a kind of top of the table how final a playoff final to decide what what it’s it’s actually surreal

The the what’s on the line for that championship and and if you look about the standard of games as well like the goals that you you normally get they’re normally it’s normally so exciting yeah whereas you know come sometimes in a Champions League final it’s a bit Cy

There’s so much to lose no but we a championship [ __ ] Carnage absolute Carnage it remember the Charon Charon suland hatrick you remember that one watching my dad in go that was the the city one was it that was when they went up oh sorry sorry sorry sry Sunland Don got a

Hat remember that yeah but that one as well with Nikki WEA unbelievable just great games but the money involved obviously when it goes out that’s such a a massive thing for the club isn’t it the most expensive game in football the the Championship Playoff final is any

One man to call Bobby Zamora if you want if I was at the QPR one against Derby yeah obviously did it for West Ham but obviously I was with all my QPR poers we got a box and Bobby scored the goal in the playoff final but like Derby was

They down to 10 men they QPR yeah and then yeah Derby just destroying them it was think only matter of time everyone’s down and the ball just landed and Bobby just slotted one the exact same goal was it exact he scored West Ham he just

Opened his body out and placed it in we get him on but he’s got stories you’d love Bobs yeah really yeah we get definitely come on he’s got some stories me as well yeah great okay we’ll get playoff special with Bobby Z with Bobby Z there

You go write Bobby down next to I’ll put Kim Jun let me Kim Jong-un Bobby Zamora look at that list Bobby Zamora Kim Jong-un David Beckham Rod Stewart and Ronaldo all achievable don’t roll it out don’t roll it out that’s what I’m saying that’s what we always say this podcast right I’ve got a little game for you yeah right you got a

Pick whole spine of players all right you got in the Premier League you got want a goalkeeper a Defender a midfielder and a forward yeah right ctive though are yeah so the the who who you who you’ve enjoyed watching the most oh okay okay so not necessarily the best

Player yeah just who who you’ve liked should goalkeeper first yeah yeah Allison all right okay I’m going for Allison I love him I agree okay so likee Ramy Ramy okay really but we I always go ramsdale don’t I parch you always parch ramsdale I just think everyone needs

Reminding he’s you know one of the best goalies play the other day played played brilliantly against great great save made a great save great pass great setup yeah yeah that pass was insane didn’t do a lot wrong what more can he do what more can he do who are we going to go

With then for our for our podcast favorite team should go for ramale I’ve parched him as well now this is what I mean cuz you said it’s not necessarily the best Alison yeah put him in put rans in that said we do enjoy watching Allison’s play he’s friend of

The Pod Allison’s never been on here we enjoy watching ramale more is that what we saying personally I do value for money well it feels like we’re I love Allison as a goalkeeper love him yeah but I think everyone’s everyone watches I mean the fact that every time ramale

Plays he’s trending just because the way our Teta has now caused this whole thing is that there will always be a discussion like doesn’t matter what he does makes a save messes up anything it is literally like a microscope on that guy and for that I do quite enjoy

Watching him because he smashes it I agree listen all for it but is anyone that’s a friend of the Pod they’re in defensively would be good to get him back on again soon we should say that as well we should say let’s do that Defenders love watching Trent Alexander

Arnold this year good is he I do CBA for me as well one celba has been good ao’s been very very good conser for Aston Villa yeah yeah tremendous um van djk is obviously always a stayer as well that that’s tough because it’s like you picking a

Fullback you picking a center back how do you pick one out of well I just think if you if you want to enjoy a footballer I think you pick Trent I think so I think you’re right and I think it the I think the fashionable choice right now would be to go celeba

Because I mean it’s hard to watch a game without commentators just absolutely he’s an incredible Defender comment it doesn’t matter what he does even if it’s just a little pass out they’ll go that’s Rolls-Royce and I’ll go he’s just passed it but that’s the reputation he’s

Garnered by being a b to his best as well but it feels like van Dykes had you just kind of know that’s going to happen he’s had maybe an office season last year but well this is the thing the standards are so raised that you kind of

Expect that from him but if your thing is about who’s more who do you enjoy watching more I mean Trent all over the pitch I don’t but it feels like he’s not although he’s class as a defender on the team [ __ ] he is it feels like he’s not a

Defender I know I know hey I mean we might go into the Euros in a bit but if he goes to the Euros you got play in Midfield yeah H it’s a banker I think so do do you think so well there’s I mean it’s it’s a lovely option to have is it

But I you know I think it’s there’s another one in there isn’t there you got rice Bellingham yeah and one more we’ll come on to it now right so Tren in we’ll come now so I Cole Palmer is someone that yeah I’ve enjoyed watching this

Year yeah agreed but who you who do you play in with just on that question England right who did you play in central Midfield what was the free well you got definitely got rice rice and Bellum they’re they’re they’re given um that’s tough depends on formation if

You’re going to go with one one sitter and two in front in front two yeah one sit two in front or two sitters depends who we come up against um you could play two Cs and Bing of like almost yeah really further forward because you had Calvin Phillips in

There but don’t you feel we’re in the situations now of a bit like when it was jard and lamps it’s like you’re talking about players that have to play so Bellingham has to play right rice has to play y so it’s it’s It’s Tricky it’s

Kind of like the I think I think of choice an option as well but I I personally I play foden in there me I I I love him when he plays deep think he can pick a pass he can get on the half you know he can get he can receive the

Ball off anyone and turn and get at at the back four back three whatever you know he picked passes from deep I think he in that position so those three I would yeah I like that yeah I like that because I don’t like him out I know when

He’s out wide he doesn’t stay out while he drifts in and you know he does his his role it’s like the Paul skulls isn’t it we just stick him out wide and he’ll do he’ll do a job but I’d love to see him in the middle and then you just

Stick rice as a sitter and then them two yeah I think rice is so good at that job that he kind of covers two men do you know what I mean like so who are you saying for this this spine of a team as you say rice Co Palmer or

Foden no that that was uh that’s for England I talking forland for this which one for this uh who would I who would I pick like then obviously because it’s not England you’ve got rodri Berard Silva that’s the thing at the moment we basically just picked an England team

For we picked we went off topic there no but at the moment we’ve got ramsdale Trent and then our midfielder at the moment’s looking English as well no should I love deck I love deck and he would be one that would be great to get

On the Pod yeah Dean rice um but he is nowhere near rodri really in my opinion and I actually think if you actually said to deck he would say no I’m not there yet not there yet no rodry is Rod re is a roll Royce yeah Douglas Lise has been

Unreal as well in a second in the league yeah yeah yeah if you’re talking someone that’s galvanized the squad on the team but I mean I feel like we’re going to go well I love no no I I wouldn’t argue against I love Rod but if we are actually looking

At this and they’re looking at players that we’ve actually enjoyed watching yeah been Cole Palmer his first season at Chelsea been their standout player that goal we scored is lon how hard that is that goal we scored to against L well obviously you know you don’t know I

Don’t know when he run like when you’re running then to to roll your studs the way that you’re done on on the Sprint yeah he’s calm he’s nice I like him all right I’ll go well listen I’m saying it’s an England team this is what I’m

Trying we are English shall me so I’m crossing out rogery am I okay fine great why not why not God we should get um fabito on shouldn’t we and ask him to do the same thing here it just be interesting to see how it differs yeah well we’re

We’re 100% bias we’re so biased are look at this team well you know what the entire Premier League all crunches ass as we pick a player from each General position as a spine we’ve got ramsdale Trent and Cole we could EAS we could have easily picked like van djk

There you mean or CBA easily all right we didn’t because we biased forwards youj Jared [Laughter] B I love watching him play thing is he can from anywhere and he he genuinely I think if he’s on the pitch he genuinely he changes games I I I think he’s so

Good yeah no he’s unreal he’s unreal but salah’s got to got to get a shout yeah but I is this not like the van djk situation where it’s kind of you just sort of expect it from him we’re not picking it because we expect it yeah I

Don’t watch a game necessarily en enjoyy I every week I mean B sell 14 goals eight assists I don’t want to go into stats but that’s joke a joke he’s Relentless unbel well Harland as well has Harland got 14 goals or think yeah and also we’re forgetting OE Watkins as well nine

Goals eight assists that’s tough the forward is tough you know boen Watkins son Salah Harland yeah I mean he’s missed he’s had a bit of an injury but yeah son’s his best I mean you’re the striker what I can’t I can’t not pick Salah thinking that m boing amazing yeah

On absolute fire in a side you know potentially well it’s not as good as Liverpool is it um score 11 goals uh been clinical um Sal Salah a joke his scores are corrects in every single game yeah I agree yeah Sal he he’s just wonderful to watch isn’t he

That’s the thing every game is entertaining with him stresses me out with penalties I don’t know what it is about Salah I don’t I never have this confidence with him with with penalties and I said this to someone they were like they were massively offended by it because think his scoring record and

Penalties is actually all right but I always get this weird vibe not late I think you’re right or five yeah is it that yes something that just my perception of him is you can be that good Outfield but for some reason penalties like I never feel

Never feel 100% with him don’t know why yeah sometimes you just get that feeling yeah um okay so so ramsdale Trent C Palmer Salah yeah you know what if we started that all again we’d have four four different ones I think yeah probably yeah but it was it was fun all

Right so the halfway point uh listen there’s lot to to go on here I mean I I still think do you think City wi win it they a team to beat I think I think so think Liverpool will do it’s one of those where you don’t want to say it you

Know what I mean yeah feel like it just hopefully they just I think you should say it I think you should have it on I’m not saying that City will win it I’m saying city are the team they’re going to be favorites aren’t they because they

Got play players coming back de bruy is coming back you know Harland you know they are the favorites to retain it but I actually I actually think they’re going to win the champions league and I think and I think Liverpool will yeah by the by the time Champions League kicks

Off again De Bron will be back properly fit I don’t see no one touching Man City in two in in two games over two games yeah no one do you think Liverpool could win the league I think City do I think City do champions league and I think

Liverpool just get Le do you do you think having the final of the Champions League at Wembley does it does it offer an extra incentive if maybe that’s the wrong way to look at it but is there something as a player that’s ticking in your mind about the possibility of

Champions League at Wembley for me I i’ I’d want the Champions League somewhere else Presley would you yeah don’t know why I don’t know why I didn’t expect that Champions League I’m like it’s like it feels like it’s a European competition and it should be

Played in Europe you know I mean and I think so I’m not going to turn one down at wimbley that’s that’s someone that’s that’s a snob that’s a WM that’s someone that’s played at wimbley far too many times get your you’d rather you didn’t win your Champions League medal at Wy I

Didn’t say that you’d a different I feel like I don’t know feel like when you away you just like we bringing a champ it’s like a you’re bringing it back you know what I mean like you’ve been to the Olympics you’ve been to Europe and

Conquered it you want to do the air port one back and yeah like I don’t want to go down the A40 and get McDonald’s bringing to the Sam would be a Target roundabout get another Macky on the way home with a Champions League I want to

You know have a Pella in Barcelona do you know what I mean I want a big sausage in Germany yeah that quote’s going to live on is it think I’m stuck in you know what I mean well it’s cuz you grew up in the

Area well yes I mean I grew up in the area it’s not like I want to I want it to be in Athens you know no I get this I get this the plane you know stepping off the plane yeah the whole thing somewhere different it’s like you know you you’ve

You’ve gone you’ve gone away and you’ve won and you’ve come home and then you’ve got the whole plane journey and you got the big ear Trophy and everyone’s there to meet you and you have the bus tour you know I don’t want to go home Wild Man from the wemy C

Park you know like I say just walk let me take 20 minutes to get home you know it does actually make sense I thought it was quite a b yeah I hear you mate iar list Vegas got be chooses i’ 100% take it there and

This is the home of football and it’s an amazing place to play football all right so we getting some messages let’s do it uh message from rer after listening to war kno’s wife’s dream it made me wonder did any of you ever have dreams about upcoming

Matches you’ve got one here I just see you giggling laughing at what his wife’s dream funny that was crazy did you have a dream before a game uh no I don’t remember having dreams but I do I do I remember having a lot of thoughts that

I’m going to score today did you and I would score really which is really really I come wife’s manifesting all that you know like the the earth and the energy I believe in that yeah no I do get it yeah but I there’s been I would had a dream but I’ve definitely had

Feelings where I’ve left to go to the stadium I’ve gone I’m going to score today really she’s gone really like like you surprised yeah it’s like self-fulfilling you’re in the right frame of mind you I’ve had games where I’ve gone I’ve felt that ill and I’ve

Thought I’m not I can’t do it I can’t can’t do it I feel awful and then gone out there and had the best game ever and played and scored like two goals and G imagine if I had pulled out that’s why I never ever even when I was so ill I

Never pulled out of a game or training or I tried not to you ever had nightmares before a game I’ve had a few nightmares during the game I’ve had a few Shockers you never woken up in the night screaming about no I don’t think I’ve

Woke up in the night screaming of you no are you doing the dream app thing right I’ve just going to get it so should we all agree to do it for a week what I’ve got one do you know about these SIDS these sleep apps so basically what they

What they do is you you put your phone next to you and then you hit record it’ll only record when it picks up noise so if it hears noise in the bedroom it will start recording then the next day you can just flick through all the little records and just hear what it’s

What it’s picked up and this is what I picked up for my mate who were remain nameless uh for his own Dignity some m in the balls that’s a massive set of balls should hear it again yeah some m in the BS she’s trying to shush him she she’s trying to call M is s fa oh look if if if people want to join in with this just she get one of these sleep recorder apps right what is he dreaming about seriously no he suppos to him yeah he absolutely no idea no a

Massive set of balls sh look if you go on the App um they’ve got little they’ve got other you can upload the recordings so a lot of them are farts I’m going to warn you just quickly quickly what what would you do if your M

Said that well I was say imagine if he said that’s a massive set of tits yeah yeah but she would been shushing him then would she what if she what if you heard your M say the exact same thing he just said there sleep like you go but is

That wrong it’s just it’s not it’s not my jur fiction is it or dreams don’t know why I’m asking you like you’re the dream expert I just feel like is it wrong if my wife dreams of massive balls I don’t know crouchy it’s not good anyway is it it

Wouldn’t be great I wouldn’t be happy with it the excuse I was having a dream you wouldn’t be happy with it stop it I’m not over the moon with I’d rather in her sleep goes oh what’s it oh God massive balls massive balls you genuinely would be upset well no I’d

Be I’d be I’d be more upset than if I hadn’t heard that yeah I don’t know I just would you would you be happy with that I mean it’s a dream you you can’t control someone’s dream no he’s not I I get you’re saying just it’s just yeah it’s not what you

Want to hear maybe next to you no I think you’re right it’s not necessarily what you want to hear I just don’t know so you just I don’t think you can even say anything that wake up by way got anything on your mind at the moment anything you’re stressing

About you just turn around yeah massive set dreaming about last night oh sis you got to give this a go right so there’s a couple couple one here let me let me just play you a couple that are on there so there there a lot of these are going to be farting I

Can tell already but um so these just random people on like a leader board leader board yeah yeah and people like vote them up or down so let’s say one of us talks in our sleep we’ll upload it to it and then people will up or down obviously if you’re not into

The whole fighting thing like just skip it on 20 seconds or so here we go uh this one they’ve all got a name as well this one uh is just called o Andy I like it already oh Andy no oh you shut Yourself still have you shut yourself or or you have shut yourself I don’t know it’s hard to tell do you want a replay I don’t know yeah we’re going again give a Replay oh you shut yourself he stting sh yeah he obviously okay I’m going to offer you one called something fell off the wall or one called ANS ordeal right what would you like [ __ ] go what was the first the wall uh something fell off the wall something fell off the wall

That sh it’s all right what it’s all right something just fell off the Wall it’s okay just go back to sleep look so from these first two clips it feels like men have gone back in time to be actual babies that one shat himself and the other one’s getting calm down sh it’s okay sh get back to sleep come on

Good boy this this looks good at number 30 on this chart fart wakes dogs oh cuz I think I don’t think you can fake that cuz I’m suspicious about some of them STS shut up I knew it I knew what it was going to be but it was still

Good just I was waiting for the dog to parkb that one again was thinking about that I was waiting for the dog to be at the like bottom of the bed he he’s thirsty he wasn’t even in the bedroom I don’t I don’t think this is a fart one it’s just

Called I’ve just throw I’ve just threw an owl so I quite like it it’s that like random sleep talk which I think is what we’re hoping for just an just threw an owl an owl oh my god wow where’d she go just thrown thrown a na my favorite there is

The th f was the dog with the fart I do want it one more time I’ll give you the dog one more time and Andy I think you’ve shot yourself fart wakes dogs one more time and then we’ll move On y you know I can picture let dog right he’s he’s literally laying there peacefully and all say she’s got up he’s G it that one with the ears and then he’s s there’s someone outside or there’s someone in the house oh god oh well so so let’s

Encourage people like if you can record you just download one of those sleeps I’m going to do this yeah yeah yeah all right let’s let’s let’s get involved uh all right well I feel like that’s a good place to wrap it up really yeah well you know

We’ve lost all control haven’t we to be honest oh tickled me a lot that so childish isn’t it but actually really enjoyable we’re at the Midway Midway point in the in the Premier League and uh in the English league in in the football league um and we’ve hopefully

Covered the the first half of it a little bit um with a bit of sleep sleep up at the end um you know here’s to the next half yeah chumble hopefully chumble wers chumble wber everyone and make sure you keep sending us in questions as well

Anything you want to ask uh about the podcast or about the boys careers and uh keep getting involved in the podcast um cuz some of the best discussions I think come from people’s emails or question they don’t all need to be silly they can be like legitimate football questions as

Well I’ve got two legitimate ones here from Callum and Fraser actually that we’ll get on to next week nice all right chumber wber everyone

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  1. Get Jose Mourinho on here, he's got time. Also he can clear up the attempt to sign Crouchy. 😀

    If you wanna have some crossover dudes, Rafa Nadal, Andy Murray.

    I'd really like to hear from Brandon Aubrey, the kicker for the Dallas Cowboys. He was drafted by a defender for Toronto FC in the MLS, couldn't crack it there, and then somehow became a kicker in the NFL. So, the shallow NFL reporters always gloss this over. They'll mention that he switched from MLS to the NFL, but until I looked him up just now I had no idea he was a defender. I thought he'd be an attacking player. I'd be interested to hear about his career arc from the football perspective, and maybe you guys can go out and try kicking the American football around.

  2. As someone from Skem I can only assume he hasn’t fell in love, although with the amount of roundabouts here he might just have gotten stuck/lost here and thought fuck it I’ll just manage the football club!

    Darren Anderton for the big guest, played in Euro 96, was there for Becks red card in 98, played with the icon that is Jurgen Klinnsmann, and was infamous for all his injury issues, but every manager club and international wanted to select him.

    Definitely a 147, you have to be absolutely perfect for so many shots and so many variables, golf and darts just aren’t matching that.

  3. Here's something that should settle the "which is harder" debate.

    Since 1999, there have been 461 9 dart finishes in PDC history.
    Since 1982, there have been 196 147 breaks in professional snooker.

    They have about the same number of participants at each event, so you can basically line them up as an apples-to-apples comparison, whereas golf has more competitors, more leagues, more events, and instead of having a handful of possibilities to have a 9 darter or a 147 per tournament, you get 18 each of 4 days. Basically, you can chuck everything Starky said in the bin, and you don't even need to be a stats pervert to see this. On average, there are about 19 9 darters per year, and the most 147s that have ever happened in a single year is 12.

    So, until someone does a deeper dive into the stats, the hole-in-one is kind of a in a weird category. In your lifetime, you're more likely to hit one, simply because of the increased attempts and differences in playing surfaces. It will kind of boil down to your definition of what is more difficult. Is it the more difficult task to accomplish in a standard event? Probably the 147. However, if you mean, is the likelihood of someone, cue in hand, darts in hand, or club in hand to record a 147, a 9 darter, or a hole-in-one, on that attempt the lowest, that's probably going to be the hole-in-one.

    But the 9 darter is definitely the least difficult of the 3.

  4. There is absolutely no doubt that the order should be 3) Hole in one, 2) 9 Darter, 1) 147. How this is even a debate is beyond me.

  5. Get Joey Barton on boys. He spoke very highly of Crouchy on Tubes' golf show. I'm a 50 year old Scouser, I was there when Crouchy scored the perfect hattrick and the overhead kick against Galatasaray. Thanks for the memories Crouchy lad, you'll always be well thought of here in Liverpool la. Carlo, Liverpool.

  6. Isn’t there an easy way to settle this? Hole in one is the easiest; then for snooker and darts, how many people have made a 147 and how many people have done a 9 darter? I recon less have done 147

  7. Loving the podcast as always. Need to go to the next Crouchfest!! My family tradition is the first born son always have there dads name as there middle name. Crouchy's son's middle names should be Harry as it seemed like he was Harrys love child and Harry loved him more than his own son Jamie 😂😂😂😂

  8. Picking you're spine of a team, United have been very poor but Jonny Evans deserves an honourable mention!

  9. You've always a chance at a 9 darter, a 147 sometimes you may be the one breaking or on the receiving end of a good break off, 147 hardest for me!

  10. Bizarrely Crouchy, I worked with a James who went by his middle name of Bruce as well. Mad sports fan and probably old enough to be your dad too thinking about it

  11. Kevin Nolan the chicken man himself would be a good hoot on the pod.
    Maybe even talk about promotion now were getting closer and closer to the end of the season.

  12. Try get my uncle on your podcast he would be a good one

    Bobby Holland hanton

    Loves football

    Stunt double to Chris hemsworth

    Double act for Aaron Ramsey

    Good friends with Joel ward

    He would be a good one for sure

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