EP. 344 | James Tarkowski: That Liverpool Equaliser, Grealish’s Impact & Battles with Haaland And Van Dijk
That Peter Crouch Podcast
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4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast, Pete, Sids, and Chris are joined by James Tarkowski, the no-nonsense centre-back for Everton Football Club. Known for his leadership, resilience, and heart-on-sleeve playing style, Tarkowski opens up about life at Goodison Park, Sean Dyche’s influence, and what it’s really like to play in Merseyside derbies.
He shares stories from Burnley’s golden years, the chaos of Everton’s survival seasons, and his thoughts on football’s return to big number 9’s, directness, and long balls.
The lads also dive into dressing room psychology, VAR frustrations, and post-football plans — from coaching to business ventures. Expect honest football chat, great banter, and a few unexpected laughs (including Tarky’s Frozen piano moment).
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00:00 – Tribute to Stuart Pearce’s son
00:35 – Opening banter and intro with the lads
08:45 – Sunday League chaos & Crouchy’s DM prank
16:20 – Dyche and managing “grenade” club owners
18:40 – Maguire’s redemption & tournament talk
35:00 – James Tarkowski joins the pod
36:10 – Settling into Everton and the chaotic seasons
38:31 – Goodison Park vs. the new stadium
41:10 – Grealish’s form and personality off the pitch
44:05 – Tarkowski vs. Van Dijk: The Derby Battle
48:06 – The famous last-minute volley and the wild celebrations
50:35 – Tarkowski’s journey from non-league to Premier League
54:05 – Inside Burnley’s dressing room culture
57:25 – Sean Dyche’s mind games and Burnley mentality
1:03:10 – Life after football & finding new passions
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the ACAST creator network. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, just before we start the pod lads, |
| 0:07.7 | obviously the news that Stuart Pierce's son, Harley Pierce, has died. |
| 0:14.6 | Stuart Pierce is someone I've had a pleasure of being around, |
| 0:17.1 | his under 21's manager. |
| 0:19.3 | That's obviously awful, tragic news. |
| 0:22.0 | And, you know, our thoughts are with Stuart Pierce at this time. |
| 0:26.8 | Hello and welcome to that Peter Crouch podcast with me, Peter Crouch. |
| 0:30.3 | Got the notorious SID and Chris Stark with me as usual. |
| 0:33.6 | We are on a remote record, but we've been rudely interrupted by Sam Rino. |
| 0:37.3 | What have you got to say for yourself? |
| 0:39.0 | You've just dragged me in because I was shouting at you for ruining our |
| 0:41.8 | evening last night. Did you want to explain why? Why the evening was |
| 0:45.3 | ruined? So guys, we went for a gorgeous meal last night and we come back, |
| 0:49.1 | got the kids to bed and thought we'll have a nice little gas of wine |
| 0:51.2 | on the terrace. And I showed Pete this, first of all, this tennis skill where like Al-Karaz and Zevarev and everyone put the, like, had to catch the tennis balls on the racket. Pete, I can do that. I was like, no, you can't. So then he was 40 minutes looking for a tennis racket and six balls. |
| 1:15.5 | So then he would not stop until he completed the challenge. |
| 1:17.7 | So that went on for about two hours. |
| 1:24.6 | Then I showed him this like four-year-old doing skills on this like football coach thing. |
| 1:26.1 | And people were saying, I can do that. |
| 1:30.3 | So again, went to find a ball, went the pitch got the ball come back and is showing me all his skills and then saying i had zero respect for his |
| 1:36.5 | his craft but it was a four-year-old you're saying this was a video before i'll send you the video chris like it was but this four-year-old, you're saying? This was a video before. I'll send you the video, Chris. |
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