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

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Peter Crouch is a former professional footballer, sports pundit, and podcaster. What was it like playing in the Premier League alongside some of football’s most intense personalities? In an era where a goal celebration, whether it was the robot or a knee slide, showed your confidence as much as your skill, what was life like for Peter Crouch back then, and what’s he up to now Expect to learn why so many ex-footballers started doing podcasts, what the common psychological archetype of top flight football players are, what being inside Premier League dressing rooms taught Peter about masculinity, why there are still no publicly gay premier league players, how Peter dealt with anxiety and the adrenaline whilst being a footballer, what worst part of the job that the general public don’t understand and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to $350 off the Pod 5 at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom Get $100 off the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do ex-players turn to podcasts because TV punditry feels fake?
0:07.7	God, I felt like I was maybe one of the first, like, to do a podcast.
0:13.3	I only did a podcast because I had a book to promote bizarrely, and someone said, I'll do a podcast,
0:19.3	and then I genuinely thought no one would listen to it.
0:22.3	And then, you know, we had a laugh doing it. And I probably said a hell of a lot more than I
0:27.0	probably should. And then I realized people were actually listening. You know, it was one of those
0:32.1	where we weren't planning on having a huge following. And then it kind of arrived. And then, I don't know, it was a bit more of the fact that I was being open and honest
0:43.1	in a world of football where you're told to be guarded and secretive.
0:47.8	You know, it was very much like don't say the wrong thing.
0:51.2	And I think the fact that we were opening on is gave it a platform and
0:55.3	people wanted to listen to it and the the punditry stuff yeah I think it's a little bit more
1:01.6	still in that world of stay guarded don't say the wrong thing whereas podcast as I'm sure you know
1:07.9	you know yourself you can definitely be yourself a little bit more and show your
1:12.3	personality and I think that's, I think it's obviously the benefit of them.
1:17.6	What is it about the world of football that encourages the players to be so guarded? Because you're
1:24.5	right, I haven't, I have an understanding of the psychology of the motivation of players from other sports,
1:35.0	of rock stars, and football players seem to be very sort of dead outside of the permitted interview at the end of the match, which is 30 seconds
1:48.0	long, there's not much going on.
1:49.7	Is that prescribed top down?
1:52.6	Is that something that's cultural, bottom up?
1:54.4	What's going on?
1:55.2	I do think it's changing in a lot of ways because I think certainly when I was playing,
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