Puddings is Massive - That Canteen Episode

foreign there's a few bits and pieces but there's nothing like the Premier League is there um it's back come on it's back it's back yeah and there's a few changes isn't it it's always interesting seeing how the coverage has changed like all the various changes in the broadcasters all of that kind of thing takes a bit of getting used to I think yeah yeah well for us obviously with BT Sport we're now TNT Sports yeah we haven't really talked about that have we well now I mean it's listen you know it's it's it's it's similar I mean there's a lot of people working there that's the same but um have you got a new board that you need to learn sort of new electronics or no well you know what I have to I do them but I'm not very good isn't it funny you retire from football and you're expected to be unbelievably Savvy with tech it took me a while to even go near it and I um I have gone on it now but it is nerve-wracking on there because you think if it freezes and it's not my fault and I'm standing there going what I do and you're on live TV is it's quite a nerve-wracking thing to do yeah I want to get to a few more Watford games this season I didn't get to enough last season so I'm going to kick that off as soon as possible and um but also you know I've started going to see maidenhead games quite a bit love that got into it you know because it's really nearby um where I live I'm just slightly outside of Watford now it's not as easy for me to get to as many games um so I sort of Switched between the two what for fan but go support local as well um the issue I have with maidenhead and we've discussed this on a podcast before is um as they moved up through the leagues because you used to be able to have a pint whilst you watched the game which was great but then they did well and obviously that's you know when you're trying to support them that's what you wish but then they get to such a level that suddenly you're not allowed to have the beers on the side of the pitch and maidenhead are at that level so then what happened is they kind of closed off the sides so the little bar in the corner for example in the right in the corner where I go um it now is effect it's behind a fence uh you can't see the match yeah and this is the Periscope thing SIDS I don't know if you're across this but towards the end of last season I thought do you know what I'm going to do to get around this so I can still have a beer no I'm going to invest in a periscope and then just have that poking over the top of the fence so I've got basically I bought the Periscope um it seems to me that you can only buy kids periscopes unless I just didn't search long enough so I've ordered this sort of it's like a green yellow kids Periscope I don't really think I should talk about it on the podcast but equally I know we have to in case they somehow get outlawed at this level of football but I don't think vanorama can come for the uh periscopes can they My worry is if there's hundreds of periscopes like it's all right with you I reckon that would be fine but yeah essentially there'll be no one in the stadium for all having a beer they'll just potentially beyond the fence but do you know what I'd love to do Periscope at the top I'd love us to worry about that kind of lawyered up on the situation because I'm waiting for someone to go you can't bring in a periscope one or two um you're not allowed to use your Periscope in the bar because think about it if someone in a high Vis comes over and goes sorry so you can't you know can't use the Periscope my first question I'd like to be armed with well technically I can yeah and here's why do I mean because if I have that information then I can carry on tell me where on tell me why can't I have a periscope here yeah yeah I mean they do it large crowds that they go for you see that's what I mean you're right actually is it sporting it is apparatus isn't it well how big is the fence like because as well if I could potentially see over it I I could tell you what's going on and say oh no joke I think you could but wouldn't that be amazing like if we can get you along to a game wouldn't be great if we go for a pint in the little corner bar and if you're playing in the game you just see crouchy's head just staring at you from over a fence and a periscope next week my next door neighbor as a female and she's seen that the human Periscope amazing the giraffe in full nature let's get you um I don't know if you'll be up for it at some point let's get you to a maiden game and just test test X I do actually think like it's not particularly High I do actually I do actually think you might be able to do it and also there must be other games where people can do the same and they maybe just haven't thought about it um but let's see what we can do for periscopes maybe it's the kind of thing we could sell through the podcast as well done right yeah yeah if we just get you know a range of periscopes out there be allowed binoculars at a game aren't you I see yeah you are you're not allowed certain cameras though are you yeah but periscope's not a camera this is what I mean I just think we need to be hot if you're a lawyer listening to this right now yeah lawyer is up tell us tell us what we need to say should someone come and try to take down the Periscope all right well listen something to something to ponder I've had a load of uh fantastic messages uh this week um obviously we all saw the pochettino barbecue one if we got a picture of purchasing in the barbecue we should have touched on this earlier really during pre-season but his first day at work at Chelsea he got all the players and Club staff to attend a barbecue it'd be good to dissect this um what do you think is pochettino bbqc plus okay he is um all right so I got tagged in this picture so much did you yes I've been sent this so many times and it's brilliant because for all you take them account me there is an undercurrent of and it's a movement of people who are coming out and proud about barbecuing and I I really am one of them um what I love about poch here is his barbecue he's clearly proud of it he's got a photo of him with his name on it rubbing it but exactly that he's got his name put on the hood there and I just think that's class I haven't done much Richard you know he's magic you know yeah I I actually spoke to someone that was at this barbecue and it was his first day at Chelsea and the whole whole Squad the the the the staff the academy it was it was a big deal it was a big deal he bought the whole shebang yeah which I think is an amazing thing and don't get me wrong I love a barbecue as much as the next man yeah this is not my I'm the next man no and and you don't love it because you're the one percent of bbqcs whereas there's barbecuers who enjoy the day out you know let me cook some burgers and throw sausages on YouTube you don't slow cook for 24. what comes on this podcast I guarantee you he respects me more than you oh wow for different reasons I'm sure you'd respect I respect your barbecuing prayer you know you don't at all well there is no respect there isn't no there is there is quite literally no evidence of respect oh you're right in any way I don't respect it you know why because it's just it's just in my opinion it's pretentious it's like it's not it is because you know why because you're marinating and slow cooking and you think you're better than me do you think you're better than me no I don't I want to serve you because you I want to save you now what I'm trying to do is give you meat that is is that you will enjoy I want I want you to be eating this me going God that tastes good no I think you you think you're better than everyone else when you barbecue because you just go [ __ ] this can't be asked with this I'll whack a burger on there I'm gonna toss it a few times sausages are burned [ __ ] it just bang it in the bun and cover it in sauce that'll do for the people I love the most that's who are you saying I'll be more arrogant in that situation barbecuing for me is is getting my good my it's a sideshow no the barbecuing for you is gathering all your friends and family and giving them [ __ ] food barbecuing for me is a love I show my love through a really low and long process you'd rather think about it the night before when I'm rubbing my meat going I'm thinking of every one of my friends and family and I know I am I am and I'm thinking I want to do something really nice for them yeah but you're you're spending 24 hours out in the garden rather than talking to the people you love you know so I'm conversing I'm catching up yeah in this one I get it I've been at a barbecue at Crouch's house and they're great listen when you're a few beers deep and you want a bit of food it doesn't yeah yeah I get what you're saying I've been to barbecues as well where the person has marinated that meat yeah and rubbed it yeah 24 hours yeah right and it tastes delicious and I've gone hey that's a great barbecue yeah and you've had conversations about and you've gone like how have you done that and like you want to know more and you and then when you hear the effort that's been putting them I hear this picture with poach for me sums up where we're at with barbecue and these are very significant people barbecue that's not a green egg that's that's like this is my only thing I would say with it I'm a little bit suspicious about the makeup of that because it's pretentious you can't you can't see a man enjoying his barbecue there what you can see is oh it's not a rubbing meeting one what we can do is I'm round Pete's house I'm going to bring him a properly and we're going to do we are going to do like a 24-hour you know from beginning to end we'll both rub at the start and then we will move to um you know preparing and and we will slow cook that thing we'll wear lights on our head and we will go all night long and we'll have a little tent and everything just to in case you know if you do need to rest or something retire to the 10th a little bit as long as one of us is always tended and and it and it will be I actually think it will be a very enlightening experience for us both beneath the stars in your garden well I'll do what I do worry there's quite a lot of sexual kind of conversations I don't think there's anything at all sexual well it is you know tender you know rubbing of meat yeah we could do that all night long so no maybe you can make anything sound sexual if you want to Pete golf oh I'd whip my club out and massive Back Nine oh my god well I haven't seen four balls close together before he's ready tonight oh it's in the bush laughs oh six words I mean no nothing's it's homoerotic as barbecuing I don't think so um as a respect I would and I'll tell you the other one one word and I doubt you'd call him a barbecue [ __ ] Ramos Sergio have you seen his setup no right homework for you I'll leave that with you you come back to the next podcast and I would like you to review his setup for me that what Ramos has in his back Garden is something I dream of w aspire to Aspire to it it's a wonderful sound you sure he's low and slowing though oh he's he's the real deal because we need to get some aprons and stuff down here because this is yeah this is escalating every show I'm getting a feel for this he's definitely something that's got legs yeah absolutely we'll get the BBQ sees uh aprons out there well coming soon yeah there's a message here from Jack I know if you're across this year um I mean I I looked at the picture and I thought I was looking into a mirror the message from Jack about 10 years ago I was a mascot for Rangers and I performed some great mascot hausery I was actually taller than the player who I was matched up against now just to lighten you on this picture this mascot is taller than the player and I would basically say he looks like me with pale skin Jack I'm sorry but he's got the whole hands and he's holding hands he's taller than him he doesn't look amused Jack he looks like he's pretty pissed off weirdly the way the photos captured looks like neither of them want to be I thought I saw a lot with Shakira at Stoke um obviously Shakira is probably the smallest player I've ever seen and that happened a lot it was there was kids just as tall as them and and I've seen him a couple of times swap swap mascots yeah yeah when he was he only felt slightly embarrassed by it well well done Jack and uh amazing picture there's a message from Ross I once bumped into Sidwell whilst I was on a stagger in Lisbon he looked bemused at what was going on and then within five minutes he was on the table doing the beer funnels with us I think one of my mates pissed him off by repeatedly called him jack kulpix that's not true at all I mean I mean they were calling each other they probably was yeah I remember so we was in an I was on a stag do with a group of mates Jurgen who uh mentioned previously in the Pod and uh Joe the Toler and Joe the toe wasn't there no no caveman was there uh chimp was there Bobby there's a few of the boys that was there but there was us and there was literally one other group that was in this Pub nobody else and we collided and we got on great and they were ruthless they were they was like imagine bumped into like a rugby Bunch um and the funnel the beer funnel actually went viral and the uh groom on his wedding day walking from the aisle at the church his best man had the final waiting for him and he kneeled down on one knee and done the funnel stuff here so first thing is a married man he's got he's got married I'm sure it was all I'm gonna have to find it it was legendary and we was doing that final for fun but this more play were ruthless yeah but they had rules and regulations for this funnel and their stagger in general um and they abided by the rules and they were great bunch of lads Ross big up because uh I do remember that I do like this it's wedding season at the moment isn't it there's a lot of weddings obviously nice weather people book in the summer um majority of the time I tell you what I haven't seen for a while and we did have a flurry of good ones is um we were encouraging people when they got married um and you know we got signed in the register the best to do it as almost as if you're signing a to a club yeah it's the best so you've got you got obviously the picture of your wife but you know they're holding a shirt up and like you know the groom will be behind going as if you know like really proud you know I've signed like a top player maybe with the father behind us we haven't seen one of them for a while so if you wanted me in touch like it's Peter Peter Crouch peter.crowdchat acast.com get involved because I I loved seeing them they were brilliant they were great yeah any any wedding signings please let us know they're they're great picks um right should we crack on with a podcast what are we talking about Lads do you know what we're doing today Chris yes canteens and training grounds um you know we've done training grounds previously but like we haven't dug down into the island like kind of the canteen environment which is it's so important isn't it like you spend a lot of time up there and um so many other characters like a lot of the kind of Oracle dinner ladies we go straight from school to like a lot of the you know it was quite often old uh Ladies cooking for you so catering operatives yeah we did ladies yeah yeah well it's fine we all know what you mean yeah and I mean yeah there might be you know if you a chef in there as well but um and and some some of the food I've had was phenomenal I mean I mean even as a young player I remember walking into the Tottenham canteen and uh you know the girls behind the counter were always lovely and you'd speak to them it's like a friendly kind of nice voice um you know because so many training grounds it's always kind of hard yeah harsh environment and you go up there and you get a nice smiley kind of face that was was for you know and they'd been there for years that kind of thing and I always remember when the transition between Jerry Francis and uh and George Graham and David genolis that it's the first time first sort of canteen I'd been in first in canteen I remember David should only used to have like a little um a little espresso and a [ __ ] I like in the canteen right the bag in the corner oh so now we'll see but like it was sort of like frowned upon but like allowed yeah yeah and obviously George came in a win the absolutely what is going on when I first walked in and saw that I went [ __ ] you know I was like you got me some players to be doing that yeah where he was but it's evolved wasn't it the canteen the food um I mean did you have an allowance so is it like you'd go in you know what I think every club that I've been at and we're talking off them or the majority of them Premier League clubs as well you pay you pay for your food so your food would be like comes out wages so you need for free so when you was there you'd obviously eat what you wanted to eat but you could I remember going to um Fulham and Mark schwarzer who was ripped by the way he was like late 30s just physically a machine he was having like a steak and pistachio nuts for breakfast you know that fit into his diet and there's me rocking up with you know bowl of light frosties oh and then it evolves that now then you get to diff like when I finished at Brighton you had a Halal section because you had to care for obviously all religions and the majority boys would go into the house section for me because it tasted better than the others then there was a sushi section it was and then you've got the sushi where are you say it was a restaurant so good I remember interviewing yoga club uh and I went to the new training grounds yeah um obviously it's the old Academy training ground obviously they left Melwood you know happy in the new training ground and he was like this is the best restaurant in the Northwest I swear to you he said I I genuinely think that all canteen is the best restaurant in the northwest and it was dead deadly serious yeah like the food has just got up a level it's outrageous like when we're away remember being away with England like a chef like yet every kind of like everything he wanted and obviously yeah it was all kind of healthy but all like nutritious but tasted good as well it was it was phenomenal because you think about the man you train your man you play you have to you have to like you have to kind of refuel um and I think about what I used to eat then to to kind of what I eat now not that it's unhealthy now but like back then I was eating so much because I was training so much like I'd get in at like nine o'clock I'd be in like I'd have probably some porridge then I'd have like um I'd have uh poached eggs on toast uh they're like that's probably a yogurt that was before training then I'd train and then I'd have like a soup because I'm a bit of soup you loved the soup the soup is a joke was a joke I'm talking like a real fresh like just homemade suit I love that then I'd have like a full-on kind of chicken pasta you know potatoes I don't have everything like veg they don't have a full-on dessert and then I'd sometimes just put cellophane over the exact same meal I've just had and take it home for dinner yeah that's that's very common yeah yeah all the lads used to do that especially the single ones yeah I'm not saying that you know wives should be cooking but you know they like a lot of them weren't very good at cooking that's that's that is what you mean but the fact you've had to go I'm not saying that why I done that when I was a Stoke and I stayed over a couple of times from from startup from London I always take stuff from the canteen the decent money in that so was this was this allowed you know it's more healthy than yeah than what you cook yourself yeah and or what you get from eating out so how much of it was so with clock for example there is it seen as like a big motivation for you guys is it away from it just being functional nutritional was it something where it was yeah it's all about keeping the squads together like most trading grounds now is all about right what can we put here to keep players here not not all day but the majority of day to keep a bit of team bonding team spirit going up so now unless they've got a golf course there for instance did they Lester's new training I've got a golf course nine-hole golf course on their complex wow so the idea is to what make players not want to be there the minimum time so if if players are going to originally go to a training round train eat lunch and quickly nip off for golf well you can do that here yeah let's have lunch do nine holes and that's the same with the canteenness in the environment where they want people to come have lovely food enjoy it you know sit in your tables in your groups and then you can just slowly converse that's about football TVs are on and there's everything there I've been in canteens before where there's been fridges where there's every fizzy drink as well coke diet coke Pepsis knowing that the players are not going to be the kids and going on a five cans of coke you know it's one for lunch done enjoy a meal everyone's talking relax tax coffee to the managers control any of that do the managers keep an eye on what players eat to them or is it quite like a safe space so to speak but you know like obviously it's quite it's been well kind of documented when like Cappello came in and banned butter and ketchup Ramos did the same thing one day Rob us at Tottenham um I sort of understand it from Ramos's point of view with regards to like I'm seeing you every day so I want you to cut this out your diet but with capello's point of view I couldn't understand it like when you're at home you know you're away with England for like sometimes three days you know maximum 10 days unless you're in a you know a camp or a World Cup or Euros so I didn't really understand kind of like unless you do that consistently 10 days or three days it's not gonna change no you know having a bit of ketchup or yeah you know a lot but like listen there were some players like with regards to um you know the foreign players and the influx of foreign players in our league they without fail so oh food is the worst on the planet um all of them that's right right then it'll say English food is stereotypically most other countries think English food is [ __ ] yeah so they come over and they go like when they just can't get aired around like fish and chips baffles a lot of people yeah yeah um fish and chips yeah yeah like beans but yeah ketchup ketchup like that they're like why would you cook a meal and then if you have to put ketchup on it you haven't cooked the meal correctly but then does a manager come in and sometimes introduce a new food or like did it go did the Italian food at least up a bit no but like we the food there was was amazing yeah of course so that was top-notch then anyway so you didn't really have to but you just cut out like the butter and the ketchup yeah but that's strange isn't it it wasn't strange one like I watched like uh James McLean for instance uh he has brown sauce on on everything soup no really I did yeah I think that's a bit dirty isn't it like well you just had brown sauce and everything like everything what was the chef's name it's like Carl no it was his name is soap it wasn't real wasn't it it was good so you don't pursue you don't put brownies he talked about the suit before the inks the soup at Stoke was oh the best I love a soup I love a soup yeah and his soup was phenomenal yeah have you ever done sort of food challenges uh in the canteen like has it ever got out of hand in terms of like who can smash the most burgers or whatever you know what it used to be a treat we used to come upstairs you could when he's coming from training you could smell what kind of food was cooking you back home you know after a game it was like you you'd have a full English sometimes or if we're in on a Sunday you play Saturday they'd do your full English or something yeah that's nice on a Sunday as well different but um I think it got to a point where it got players arriving the training ground especially in the morning and in the afternoon when I was eating that it was more continuity so the chefs and thin ladies or kitchen assistants would know exactly what the player would want so you could Rock up and they would know right okay this person is going to have poached eggs on toast with a bit of paprika on top which I mean saying something yeah when I was to get into Brian D the old girl there she was lovely she used to go 20 milk like oh yeah and she's because that was your thing no I said Weetabix right but I had my we I said I don't know if she's like this what you like with cereal when I have Weetabix okay it's got to be hot like hot milk like piping piping hot milk and I was like d you ramp it up because I don't want it like look warm but then like frosties and cereals I'd have a cold and a cold but we because it had to be hot like so hot I'd be like so you'd have your hot meal and it's a bit like I've seen this clip of Man City the chef there and um they're all asking for um Riyadh pasta and it became his signature yeah it was the pasta chicken yeah if I remember right like yeah it looked nice yeah ready to be basic but it was like it was nice see all the players come in and go real pasta do you know what though that happens a lot you know like you because you'll see like different cultures coming in and they'll say like I need this specific dish and then like they'll make it for them I'll go oh Canal it's unreal likes you know a particular player from a certain but I just find it funny that it then becomes signature dishes and then it's almost like that play is create created it and it becomes a thing you know well we're like when I first got introduced to kind of like the the hand like the Spanish ham they have right I remember Torres used to get it over from Madrid and he brought it in and I remember like he put it in the middle of the dress room at Millwood and like rain or Lewis Garcia Alonso they're all eating this ham in the middle I was blown I mean I don't even own the sun rat you know close like what are they doing it's like raw ham in the middle obviously you know so I know now you know well-traveled man yeah well I was like why would you get have flown in from Spain like how good it could be and I tried it and [ __ ] you know I was like yeah but the thing is there elegant when they they have like one or two slices we just like going and just overload as yeah normal fire is but yeah you know like like you say it's what's amazing about being in a football dress room is having you know all the different cultures like even going around to to one of those houses like an Argentinian and they they do barbecues or you know they they make meat right okay and you do you do get it I mean they're not there for 24 hours like you'd be but they they do we talk about quality product and a bit of caring attention the thing is those Argentinian players ever come around your house this is the thing like and it's something to consider for the national team as well is I do think the rest of the world think um English food's a joke and I don't think people like yourself could actually help with that they don't help that yeah maybe not the most important thing now is these players need the best they can get and they do get the best because he's literally now walking into a five-star hotel restaurant like they would you'd walk into the most canteens now in the Premier League right you have the salad section which would be pretty much much made up the salad bar and then you'd have the the buffet where the majority of the meats would be there or and then you go to the account with a chef is and you go right can you knock me out for a certain pasta and this sauce or this steak and it would be done because literally bespoke for you and you go and sit down grab your tea coffee drink cold drink and your weight your meal to come over but if it's that much of a routine do you find that you're always sat next to the same person like do you end up sort of like you little in-team Dynamics in the canteen and I've spoken before about some of the like yeah of course it does but it's it's obviously interesting like we we've talked about the national team where you know the be the different clubs on different tables and so you know almost a bit divide sometimes between that but was it the same day today like you have a sort of eating buddy or something or like if it was a bit tense you know people in different parts yeah but let's be honest like the nationality is going to stick together you know I mean like you you would have a group of Dutch French you know you know African Lads English lads of course there's there's people you float between and you'd be happy to sit with them but like they're always going to be your mates you know I mean you do you're always gonna have more in common with you yeah your compatriots of you know International level or whatever whatever um but touching on that like I always remember like the Muslim Lads right when they're fasting like a lot of time I remember they were fasting during pre-season and I remember being I think all right I always remember when you fasting we had two games in like three days and we were in Austria and it was red hot and he was fasting and he hadn't eaten for like two days and in those two days we had three games so you couldn't touch water or or eat yeah of course yeah and you're like this is Matt you know and obviously you know that has to be respected so you know he has to maybe step out of one game and maybe just play play another but I think more and more so now it's all about obviously seller and Marne as well having a similar kind of thing and you know that that kind of religion people's beliefs have to be respected and you know although it's not obviously from a football perspective the right thing to do but you've got to respect his religion and take him out at that time yeah I I always think there's what's interesting about what you're saying about the canteen is there's an element of self-discipline uh that there needs to be because you could really eat as much as you want and it's kind of okay and then do you remember Rio was talking about was it that Ferguson would only allow one fry up a week and then if there was suspicion that someone had more than one the head chef would grasp them up to uh to the manager yeah and then the manager would have to have a meeting about fry apps like we've got nutritionists in and those nutritionists would sit in the canteen and watch what you eat yeah and you know I I couldn't eat enough right because I still can't I mean I can't put on weight but there were certain players where he'd be like um take a seat yeah but it's interesting you say about the seats earlier on you are going to sit next to some of the staff as well because the staff are the key like the kit man you know he was always one a certain um someone in the medical Department there was a laugh and a joke and you'd be like yeah I'm stuck with like Shakira you know I want to be so over there with your blood his name but that's that's great because SIDS what you're describing now is kind of ultimate come dine with me situation you know yeah four ex-team mates right ideal situation who you sitting next to oh wow yeah X team need a reason why as well let me tell you once and Lauren I was found myself in once I I was playing for Jennifer David Beckham had a game at um Old Trafford it was a charity game yeah and uh I I remember I was having lunch and then everyone left and I was having a coffee there's only a couple of people left and I was sitting over here and then the people that were still left said I'll come join us I went over it was Carlo ancelotti Alex Ferguson Ashley Cowell and I think John Terry that's bizarre hello in [ __ ] it all right they were talking about kind of they were both talking about like the two managers talking about champions league and obviously Ash and jtlc were had angelotti and they were talking about Chelsea and champions league and managing against each other but you could tell there was no cameras no microphones and just seeing the personalities for themselves and being in that room was like like an honor really that's cool yeah well thanks for that crash because going back to your original question I don't think I can beat that one it was unbelievable I'd still rather stupid this next part of the podcast is sponsored by brewdog so crouchy last time around we discovered that Elvis juices the king of ipas um and we've been enjoying it haven't we we have grapefruit he's zesty we got to the bottom of it uh fantastic the king of ipas uh what are We The Kings of that's what I want to know yeah and that's what we've been asking last week you did a wonderful uh uh performance would you call it or I wouldn't call it wonderful or a performance but I did sing Elvis you did and that was your initiation yeah and then I mentioned to SIDS yeah who I know is the is the king of performances really yeah uh obviously the notorious society as we know him on this podcast um but we suggested that you needed to do and this and an initiation yeah well look I'm all for that I get it you know every club that you sign for you have to do one and you know my feet are under the table here yeah I feel I feel comfortable in this environment so why not so do you feel like you could showcase your skills I've got some skill with this and I've done initiations before um and if you want a song list list I'll go with it it's almost enthusiastic I'm not gonna rap because I'm known for rapping I'm not going to do the notorious Sid uh growing our Pub is a massive fan of Only Fools and Horses still am I watch it all the time so uh the theme tune is basically what I'm gonna uh I want to go with are you ready for this yeah a little bit yeah we got some off price cracked Dice and miles and miles of carpet towels TVs deep freezing David Bowie LPS ball games gold chains what's her names how to push them Trevor fastest tracksuits from a mushy Shepherd's Bush no money back no guarantee black or white rich or poor Wilco prices at a straw God bless hooky streets it's a great one when it wasn't a wrap I thought it'd be a song didn't expect that song yeah I think it's one of the ones where listen I actually done that at Chelsea and the uh let's put the African Lads didn't have a clue yeah did they not no there was a serviettes oranges bread rolls the lot being thrown at the English has loved it yeah so there we go I'm here to please so look we've been asking for your skills as well we did put it out there as well we wanted voice messages from everyone listening about what you're the king of or maybe the queen of um we've had a few sent in if you want to do this you can go to our Twitter there's something pinned at the top where you can send voice messages we've got one here should we have a listen oh yeah here we go this one hi Lads so I like to think that I am the king or queen of accents and sometimes when I'm out and about I will drop into different accents when I'm going into shops or ordering coffees and things like that just to see if I can get away with it and if anyone says anything and I've recently done it in London when I was in away with work and I went into a well-known coffee shop uh I just said to the guy um oh can I have a medium latte please with sugar-free caramel syrup um and that's it and it gave me a really weird look and I was like oh my God why is he looking at me like this and then the more he spoke to me the more I realized that he was actually Australian so I just picked my phone up and was like um sorry I just got to take this phone call um I'm just gonna wait for my coffee at the end thanks grab my phone grab my coffee ran to the train in a blind panic that this guy was gonna follow me and ask what part of Australia I was from so I've just never done it since but I'd still like to think that I'm the queen it's a great game you're going to get me an app do this we do it sometimes at the drive through do you yeah yes what's your what's your go-to actually well Australian pretty yeah I usually go with that yeah but um that's a bit confusing for whoever seven at the drive through because the thing is for most of us when we play that game yeah the region get away with the accent is because no one knows who you are the problem is if if um Pete and Abby turn out and they're running on the window it's like Peter Crouch now we can see nice to see you and then you hit them with the Aussie well I'll order an Elvis juice at the barrier yeah okay yeah so um hi there I love an Elvis juice if that's okay why oh I have four four of the buggers I'm full of the buggers wow would it would it be more fun for me to do that or maybe just go Canal foreign great So the plan is um so we're all happy to send beers for that yeah yeah 100 pack of beers and if you want to get involved in this just find us on Twitter at Peter crouchpods look for the pin tweet there you'll find the link to send us a voice message we just need to know what you're you're the king or the queen um of hello to brewdog.com forward slash Crouch and buy a pack of Elvis juice then you'll be added to the prize draw for tickets to the next event we're hosting down at brewdock Waterloo uh potentially at the end of August we're not sure about that but we're being around that time anyway uh so get by get sending your voice messages and uh hopefully we'll see you soon all right have you ever seen it get a bit tense um because stuff must spill over from the training ground and it gets a bit tricky about who you're going to sit next to that kind of thing can be I mean you should leave things on a training field but you know I've seen things where you've kicked off against someone in trailing and you know you arrive kind of at the in the queue at the same time things like that like it does it does happen you know it does and I've seen it go off again in the Canadian but you'd like to think that we shouldn't should it no you've never wrapped a tray around someone's head or so well I've seen I saw I saw Fabio capella once um he had a mad thing about mobile phones and I remember um emojesky was on his phone when he walked in and you know all the trays like and how loud they are when you've got one of the trays off and he smashed them all along the thing like that a little bit [ __ ] [ __ ] everyone [ __ ] themselves and uh he said we have we have half an hour to all sit together to speak and I have one rule and it's like no mobile phones and Emilio hello what I lose God you know you're on your phone and um everyone just [ __ ] [ __ ] themselves yeah and then they walked off and sat down and I went I was like wow do you know most parents can relate to that though I think yeah it's like the no mobile rules you can sit in your room yeah all day and I get it but it's just the way we are in it we just get it out and have a look yeah however kind of an intense situation it sounds like unbelievable yeah talkative intense what was more intense was most managers wouldn't let you eat until the whole Squad got there so near enough all the time the manager would be first in this say for instance dinner was seven o'clock on an away trip in the hotel you get down you get the meeting room you have to go down there all obviously it's all laid up manager being there first and you're coming drips and drab sit on your seats and then everyone will come and you'd wait for one person and you couldn't get you look at that food that food's looking at you and you're saying I can't wait to tear into that and you're waiting for one person you're like come on it's two meters or seven let's just go he's like no go away as soon as that person come through a door and sat down it was like yoga to Buffet you literally go to buffet and you literally sit down put your hand like under your server yeah it was like that do you know what it's something about meal times right um and it's always been like this since I started playing football and well I retired is something about it that's military that that needs to be it's something about a team eating together it is about bonding and respect or it is a big thing and I remember towards the end like if we went out for like lunch or something like that it would be only when the captain and a lot of players they didn't want to go for lunch with us you know like especially towards the end of stoke it was quite a fresh dressing room and you could tell kind of some of the foreign ads would just they just didn't want to be around us you know and you could you could see that so we'd all go out for lunch and pretend that we're all getting on and then you could see them they're on their phones going [ __ ] you know I hate the food I hate the company the [ __ ] can I get out of here and you know that's what's going through the head you know the whole time they think of that anyway they can only leave when the captain says so like the captain will stand up and go right everyone finished and they go right yeah and you'd all leave together they got to the stage where you could see them being so kind of anti what we were trying to do don't we go [ __ ] them let's just have dessert and a few beers oh yeah it's just I don't know like if you're not going to try at least then I like that that's a captain's role in a football club I think when you're defining what the captain does and obviously you know do this and on several podcasts uh there's something quite cool that the captain decides when everyone leaves yeah and everyone says like there's nothing to do with football really no it's just team stuff isn't it it's the team kind of there's nothing to do with the meal either yeah it's it's about a team and if not everyone's buying in it it becomes a problem and if there's not that respect like uh obviously Capello for instance um you know had his flaws but he had some good points to be honest and a lot of them were you know if you want if you if you were late for for kind of the team meeting or the team meal he said you could do whatever you like all the time but if you're late for that team meal you're late for that meeting it shows disrespect so why is your time any more precious than everyone else who's here on time you know that kind of respect is how you you know it is all part of a team ethic yeah it got to a point as well where on a way trip so I think it might have been coming more so after when Spurs had lizoni gate that people take their own chefs right to the hotel so the club the club Chef would travel with the team or before the team on an away game to that hotel where they're staying go in the kitchen oh imagine that that's hilarious and basically watch over the food that I was cooking the food himself but that's that's massive Chef house food like imagine if you're the head chef of a hotel restaurant right and some prick walks in like in in Chef whites but with a Stoke badge or like that's regularly and we're allowed to sort of like almost take take control of the hotel and that's their team that's their kitchen it's basically territorials someone coming into your garden and going it's his barbecue yeah yeah this is mine yeah I'm cooking on this you can watch oh my God can you imagine it's cuckold watch watch me it is though he's right I'm gonna fly straight into this barbecue your barbecue watch me cook and nothing else they can do this they have to stand there good right we're done now we're done oh well listen you know what I really enjoyed um just going through uh canteens yeah actually got loads out of that yeah I enjoyed it really dug down didn't we got cold is born would be great to hear from a chef in a hotel that's been cooked by a football club name and shame we're happily we'll happily put it on let us know laughs so there's a few of these stories uh where um managers have got involved in the canteen do you want to hear a couple of them interesting know your thoughts um so this is a good Fergie one in the past Sir Alex Ferguson made players do work with the canteen staff and learn how to cook before he gave them permission to buy a house so really look I don't know if that's true um I guess the theory is is like maybe instilling this discipline it's like the club helps them learn how they can live on there and be self-sufficient and know how to cook because you're saying if you went home and just cooked yourself and you were just eating [ __ ] all the time yeah I was useless I remember being when I first moved I went to Portsmouth and I was on my own I just couldn't I wasn't a good cook at all and not like obviously nowadays like the players have chefs don't they like they they cook if they're not good chefs they have they bring them in and I suppose in the Premier League if they're earning that much money it doesn't you can but that obviously didn't work for film therefore got me I swear I've been watching a documentary where he had the rappers steel Winnie's cooker and he'd never made a cup of tea is he the one that never made a cup of tea in his life he'll never well never made added seal coffee in his life what never had one or never made one he's never had one oh nice Phil I'm sure it was Phil never was it is there a reason why he's not done that like I just I'm just saying would he look would it be interested in trying a coffee I'd like to see what I'd like to see what you guys he's watched three films in his life generally and he's never actually walk off I mean maybe this is I don't know if he'd be interested in this like I see him unless it's you know for a health thing or something like that totally together as far as you know if he's never well you can't just rule something out because you don't like the thought of it we could try Michael Owen on a different thing every week one week coffee next week he's watched three films is he yeah so like films or like he's not seen The Godfather or anything he has been missing out on a lot he has named them but um Michael Owens film reviews could be massive for this part I'm not joking all he's got to do is watch a film and send a voice note can we not arrange this well like a section yeah but it's only it's classic films so one a week we just say look treat yourself to watch The Godfather right which I mean some of the great The Lion King you know like and we just put on a different one just let let him fire over quick voice note with the analysis uh well we can try I don't know do you know where we'll uh yeah yeah I learned well enough to ask um please do yeah anything like the adverts he does it could be really yeah yeah it could be special please can we not forget that that includes everyone listening as well please remind us um uh how about this story so ten heart bought in his own head chef as part of his rebuild at Man United now that's kind of odd because if you're if you're used to a certain chef from a player's point of view then suddenly the managers bought his guy in that's it that's an interesting one that's massive I'm I'm literally just that's throwing me back to when I was at reading and the year that we got promoted from the championship to the Premier League um record points 106 points still the record now Mickey the chef we had a roast dinner every Friday without four a game before a game uh Friday every Friday we would have a roast dinner like later and he'd become Superstition in the end it was like right listen you got to do it I think it probably got to a season where we didn't have one earlier on and we lost and it was like listen get the roast back and then we won if it did enough every game and I'm going back to that scenario thinking if the man to change and someone else come in and we didn't have roast on a Friday what was that gonna that's it you're in rhythms you're in and the manager comes in yeah I know part of it is bringing in their way but bringing their own Chef suggests there's gonna be radical change but like that changes it's really like a member of Steve McManaman told me about like Real Madrid um you know before a game they'd have a they'd have wine on the table like on a Friday night before a game they'd have whether it's you know it's a cultural thing that Brits can't be trusted with one really um where is they can have two glasses and yeah go to bed you know we'd just binge it and go to a club yeah oh that's a cultural thing or maybe they said that you know some some players would have two or three glass of wine yeah and then and then and then go to bed and you know have a big match to the extent I don't know they they play later than us it's not three o'clock kickoff it's like you know evening but then it helped the canteen not be the same canteen that it was in the day it was like felt like a Friday night relax as well good thing like that that sounds good that that's how they that's how they did it and you know something different to what we know here's another one Stephen Gerrard banned fizzy drinks sauces and puddings at Aston Villa really now that's a touch of the company thing for me I get busy drinks like I get that I don't think fizzy drinks should be around a training ground pudding so well they're not they're not necessity very harsh put into his massive yeah but listen let me tell you now right you can't remember these things Slaughters chickens isn't it oh flags at crutches yeah we need to hear this charted I was quite aggressive I want it on one of those ones I guess unfurled down a whole stand you know like that start the players are coming out and just puddings is massive gets revealed along the coast honestly the thoughts the big screen behind the camera that's your one mate you found it or shout it at you from there please from the moment this podcast goes out your social Twitter Instagram just needs to say puddings is massive see that they change things on Wikipedia and everything about Steve is now done around this I want I want companies coming in for the right season Steve I want this man advertising spotted dicks I want this man advertising treacle tarts I want him I want him with it all right it's gone honestly it's the new message is massive this is massive Arsenal right quick story it's London Colony brand new training round Chef was there lovely so it the it was an open uh canteen so the academy would get in sometimes before the um first team and the chef is doing a tin of um apple crumble they notice like the lads would just take the layers of crumble yeah so obviously Thierry Dennis would have been Tony Adam and then they'd be like [ __ ] going on so I mean this is not on so in the end the Chef Dan literally an apple crumble and then he would just do tin like trays of crumb crumble oh mate just that's your one [ __ ] it this is the new loud this is it no one just does up to the best of mine knowledge anyway just the crumble I've had it I said Well's crumble crumble I don't puddings is massive puddings is massive.com let's buy that as soon as possible we're the new Muller this message you need to get a load of celebrities footballers everyone piling in on them I see it right now leather yoga instead of Nicole shows or whatever just get younger yeah Sidwell licking yogurt lids just look to camera pullings is massive can we we just encourage everyone bin off every other catchphrase around this podcast we're running with this one now we need you to whack this in the back of dirt all of it piss off Carly gone redundant is massive dirty Vans scribble and toilet cubicles puddings is massive stickers we've got a new one everyone right the strange thing is I think everyone's on both of them um let's wrap it up um what podcast I honestly really enjoyed it like you never know what you're gonna get and you know what canteens has brought out something in us today um and and I've really enjoyed going back in there I felt like I was in there at times yeah eating a dinner eating the breakfast yeah Chumbawamba everyone final words don't go to SIDS isn't it yeah put into his massive let's go massive guys

Channel: That Peter Crouch Podcast

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Length: 57min 48sec (3468 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 15 2023