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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Troy talks through the chaos of growing up in Birmingham — from violence at home and police raids to losing his dad and serving time in prison. He opens up about the mindset that took him from a building site to captaining Watford in the Premier League, and how Sean Dyche’s tough love changed his life.
He also shares stories about Anthony Joshua, the reality of fame, and what redemption really means after football.
This is the eventful life of Mr Troy Deeney.
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| 0:00.0 | Dysha Watersie. Right, Marvin's not playing. |
| 0:02.0 | Who's going to step up and score the f*** goals then? |
| 0:04.0 | F*** knows why. I went, me. |
| 0:06.0 | He goes, anyone else? |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm thinking, cheeky bastard. |
| 0:10.0 | And then the week after that, I started, scored the winner, and the rest is history. |
| 0:14.0 | Here's Hogg! |
| 0:16.0 | Dini! |
| 0:18.0 | Do not scratch your life! |
| 0:20.0 | Roy Dini! Giving him the opening and Deeney takes it! Spectacularly! I wanted to be the realest football league, whatever the fuck that means. Football's the only time I'm ever free. I ain't got to worry about what's going on back home, man. I ain't got to worry about bills. It's going to sound very egotistical, but I think you'll understand them. I'm here for a real reason. So you were flying eye, flying out, and all of a sudden, bang. My old man in February got diagnosed with cancer. That summer, my old man dies. I get locked up. Oh, mate. So then I'm drinking, drinking heavy at this point. Did you change? Absolutely. At that time my mindset was like, fuck you. Yeah. Like, my world's already crumbed. I believe that I was supposed to go to jail. I genuinely believe that. It got me starting to reflect on myself, like, you know, do you want to go down that route? And I'm my worst critic. Like, there's nothing any person on planet Earth can ever say to me that that hits there harder than I'm going to do it. When he gave you 10 months, were you happy? I was none. Okay. I was none. I was not saying. Burry my dad on the Friday, went to jail on Monday. Is that close? Mm a bit. Why did you get banged up? |
| 1:34.0 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth |
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| 1:42.2 | characters of all lived eventful lives. Do us a favor and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodle, where we've now had over 100 million views. Troy, welcome to the show, mate. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it. Yeah, mate. Really looking forward to this one. It should be good. Yeah, mate. Let's roll the way back. Who are the most intimidating set of fans you've ever come across? Ooh. It's funny, I don't really get intimidated. I suppose it'd be the generic ones, right? You're Millwalls, your West Ham's. But I come from Sunday League where you're probably going to have a tear up most Sundays. |
| 2:19.4 | You know what I mean? |
| 2:19.9 | And you have a chat and get a few bad tackles. |
| 2:23.7 | It ends up with a punch-up. |
| 2:24.8 | So never really got intimidated by football and especially football fans. |
| 2:29.8 | And weirdly, the more hostile the place, the better I played. |
| 2:33.3 | Yeah. |
| 2:33.7 | Because it was where I'm at, yeah. |
| 2:35.5 | And, like, I used to take football like war. I've said this loads of times, but like, we're going to Millwall or we go to West Ham, we'll seek with your club. So, right, I'm not taking on that 11. I'm taking on whoever's in that crowd. Yeah. Do I mean, you're all, you're all getting it. Because if we lose, you're all got to be calling me shit and me fat. |
| 2:53.0 | Sorry, can we swear? |
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