Chris Smalling: Manchester United and England Footballer
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Chris Smalling.
Chris is a Manchester United and England International footballer. He’s been playing professional football for the last 8 years having played more than 300 games for Man United. He talks to me about turning his dream to become a footballer into reality and what it’s like to represent your country on the pitch.
In January 2018 Chris made the decision to turn vegan for a number of different reasons which we discuss. He is a pioneer of plant based eating in sport and is part of a growing list of vegan sports stars – including formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton, boxing champion David Haye and tennis star Venus Williams.
I cant quite believe it but Chris is the first professional sportsman we’ve had on Desert Island Dishes and although it may come as a bit of a surprise to a lot of you - I am a big football fan, I love watching it and my husband is a huge Manchester united fan so we made a day trip of it and went to the Man U training ground to meet with Chris.
I hope you enjoy!
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So there we have it – another delicious day of Desert Island Dishes! Don’t forget you can find me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/margienomura) and you can sign up for the newsletter at (https://www.desertislanddishes.co)
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| 0:17.0 | the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course the last dish they would choose to eat before |
| 0:22.8 | being cast off to the Desert Island. I hope you're all well and that you've had a lovely week. |
| 0:27.9 | Thank you so much for the amazing reviews you've been leaving on iTunes recently. They really do |
| 0:33.0 | make my day and they give the show a little boost. If you haven't yet left a five-star rating, |
| 0:38.3 | now is your moment. Also, don't forget that there's a brand new Desert Island Dishers |
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| 1:04.6 | the Desert Island Dishes website, which is desert island dishes.com. So, I asked you lot the other day for guest recommendations for the |
| 1:13.0 | podcast and lots of people said that they would love to hear more people who aren't from the |
| 1:17.9 | world of food. So your wish is my command with today's episode. I'm so interested in the different |
| 1:24.8 | role food plays in all of our lives. And what could be more interesting |
| 1:29.3 | than finding out about the life and food loves of a professional athlete. Also just getting |
| 1:35.3 | to speak to people that I don't get a chance to chat to day to day is amazing. It may come as somewhat |
| 1:41.3 | of a surprise to a lot of you, but I'm a big football fan. I love watching it |
| 1:45.9 | and my husband is a huge Manchester United fan. So we made a day of it and we went to the |
| 1:51.4 | Manu training ground to meet with Chris. I hope you enjoy. My guest today is Chris Smalling. Chris is a Manchester United and England international |
| 2:03.9 | footballer. He's been playing professional football for the last eight years, having played more than |
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