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That Peter Crouch Podcast

CLASSIC CLIPS | The OUTRAGEOUS Present That Sparked a RIVALRY Between Rod Stewart & Elton John

That Peter Crouch Podcast

Tall or Nothing

Football, Sports

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

FROM THE VAULT: In this clip, we look back at when Rod Stewart joined the lads to discuss his lifelong love of football, growing up in a football-obsessed household, and the hilarious rivalry he shared with fellow music icon Elton John.


Rod opens up about their competitive friendship in the 70s, outrageous Christmas presents, wild nights before heading off to watch Watford F.C., and the legendary moment Elton had his “Blondes Have More Fun” balloons shot down. He also reflects on scoring a hat-trick at Stamford Bridge during Soccer Six — much to the delight of his mate George Best.


If you like this clip, you can catch the full episode here:


https://youtu.be/J4sWFQq1AQc


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0:00.0

And obviously music and football are your passions.

0:03.0

Like where did the football passion start?

0:05.3

I grew up in a football household.

0:07.1

You know, there was, my dad used to run a team called the Highgate Red Wing.

0:11.3

Run two teams, A team and a B team.

0:14.2

And my two brothers used to play.

0:16.3

So, you know, Saturday mornings for me, 5.07 Archway Road, around 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock

0:22.7

when there's a 3 o'clock kickoff, was full of players, you know, and the telephone's ringing,

0:27.3

he can't play, will you play? So I grew up amongst that. So I had no option but to play football.

0:33.7

And was that a passion for you to be a professional?

0:37.9

Was your mindset on being obviously a professional football player from a young boy?

0:43.5

Yeah, yeah, it was.

0:44.6

Yeah, it was.

0:46.7

Mainly because the other two brothers were good, but they weren't that good.

0:50.3

They're upstairs on the roof now.

0:51.9

Sorry, guys.

0:53.3

But my dad wanted one of us to be a pro.

0:55.9

So I went down to Brentford and that trial's there, but they didn't call me back. But at that same

1:02.0

time, I was getting into the music business, so I didn't really care. I think that's where my

1:06.8

passion was. What position was you, Rod? If you had to say a player now that would typify

1:12.1

who you was, what would you be? I don't know, because in those days it was right half and left

1:17.2

half. So I played it right off and I finished up, I only finished playing about 12 years ago

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