Behind The Bravado of Modern British Football - Peter Crouch - #1018

Do ex-players turn to podcasts because TV punditry feels fake? Um God, I I felt like I was maybe one of the first, like, to to do a podcast. I only did a podcast because I had a book to promote bizarrely and uh someone said I'll do a podcast and then I genuinely thought no one would listen to it and then um, you know, we we had a laugh doing it and I probably said a hell of a lot more than I probably should. And then I w and then I realised people were actually listening.

You know, it was one of those where I w we weren't planning on having a huge following and then it kind of arrived. And then I don't know, it was it was a bit more of um the fact that I was being open and honest in a in a world of football where you're told to be guarded and and secretive. You know, it's very much like don't say the wrong thing and um and I think the fact that we were open and honest gave it a platform and people wanted to listen to it and um the the f the punditory stuff yet I think it's a little bit more still in that world of um stay guarded, don't say the wrong thing. Whereas podcasts, as as I'm sure you know, you know yourself, you can definitely be yourself a little bit more and show your personality and I think that's um I think that's obviously the the benefit of them.

What is it about the world of football that encourages the players to be so guarded? Because you're right, I I haven't I have an understanding of the like uh psychology of the motivation of players from other sports, of rock stars, uh, and Football players seem to be very sort of dead outside of the uh permitted interview at the end of the match, which is 30 seconds long. There's not much going on. What is that prescribed top down?

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