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The Rugby Pod

#14 Football vs Rugby: Stars, Money, Pressure & Injuries - Fozcast Meets Rugby Pod

The Rugby Pod

The Ringer

Sports, Comedy, Rugby

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week’s bonus episode is a special Rugby Pod × Fozcast crossover as Ben Foster and Tom Ochoa join Jim, Biggs and Goodey for a brilliant conversation that digs into what really separates, and connects, elite football and rugby. The lads compare the financial realities of both sports, how contracts work, the demands of training and match preparation, and the very different ways each game handles injuries, stars, player welfare and fandom. They open up on their journeys growing up in academies, the pressure to perform, and the star players who shaped the sports. It’s an open, honest and funny chat, with the lads learning about each other’s world. A fantastic listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Being evil queen has never been so fun.

0:03.0

And I am willing to do anything.

0:05.9

We will soon be at war.

0:07.7

You will have to take a side.

0:09.0

War with the Protestants.

0:10.3

What fun.

0:11.5

Or war with the Catholics.

0:12.9

None of us are safe.

0:14.4

Feels good to be bad.

0:16.0

The Serpent Queen on Channel 4.

0:18.5

Stream now.

0:26.2

Pod, pod, pod, pod.

0:26.8

Rugby pod.

0:33.4

Welcome to the Foscast today.

0:36.6

We are talking all things football versus rugby.

0:37.4

Are they the same same are there any similarities

0:38.5

whatsoever we're about to find out to mattie you good to go yeah absolutely we have got some

0:43.4

some heavy hitters in the podcasting and the rugby and the football world there damn bigger and

0:48.5

igu jim hamilton yourself and then the old lembs under 10 player of the season

0:53.6

still claiming it still you've got the trophies, though? Always. All right, what we're starting with, Tom. We're going to start with salaries, football. Money. Straight in. We're sat in order already, so, well, actually, we need to swap myself and scooty around a little bit. And we'd be in the right order, I think. I think one interesting thing which we spoke about before, when you represented England, Ben, you didn't know that you got paid. Because I remember being at your house in Manchester, got to be 20 years ago, and a check came through the post from M&S. Yes. And it was like a sponsorship. I think it was like five grand or something.

1:27.7

And you were like, oh, that's a bonus. That was a commercial thing. But you also get paid.

1:31.8

Yeah. So we used to get, so it would be really interesting to find out, actually, if you actually get paid for England and the Lions as well, would you get paid for going away with lines, right? So when I first found

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