8. Troy Deeney

Grounded with Louis Theroux

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In Grounded with Louis Theroux, Louis’s using the lockdown to track down some high-profile people he’s been longing to talk to – a fascinating mix of the celebrated, the controversial and the mysterious. In this episode, the guest is footballer and Watford FC captain, Troy Deeney. Troy tells Louis about growing up on one of the biggest council estates in Europe, his time in prison and the reason he won’t fix his teeth. Produced by Paul Kobrak A Mindhouse production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:08.4	That was us switch my phone on silent.
0:10.8	Hello, I'm Louis Thoreau and welcome to my podcast series for BBC Radio 4, grounded
0:20.1	with Louis Thoreau.
0:21.1	Where I get to talk to people who like me, lock down and can find to the home.
0:27.2	I'm curious to meet and who seem to be keen or at least willing to meet me.
0:32.6	I'm with the Big Bandit, this is the boss, I'm just an additional piece to this.
0:37.3	Oh wow.
0:38.3	Flasery already, you usually have to wait around for that.
0:41.6	Only now we meet remotely using video conferencing software, each of us recording our halves of
0:47.9	the conversation.
0:50.5	Once we're all ready.
0:51.7	I'm going to say a glass in anyone if they wanted it to, and the whole house said yes.
0:56.9	My guest today is Troy Deaney, the talismanic captain of Watford Football Club, an outspoken
1:03.5	player advocate who is utterly unafraid to speak his mind.
1:09.8	Like the rest of the Premier League, his season came to an abrupt halt with COVID.
1:17.2	We recorded this program earlier in the lockdown.
1:20.9	Okay, full disclosure.
1:24.0	I hope this isn't going to make things awkward between it.
1:26.3	I don't know very much about football.
1:28.5	Like I enjoy watching it.
1:30.2	I grew up in South London.
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