EP. 348 | Joe Hart: “Pep Told Me I Was Done” - Training Session Wind Ups, City’s Takeover & Celtic Redemption
That Peter Crouch Podcast
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4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast, the lads sit down with Premier League and England goalkeeping legend Joe Hart for an unbelievably honest, funny and revealing chat about the wildest moments of his career. From the chaotic early days at Manchester City and their takeover era, to the surreal Aguero title-winner scenes, Joe takes us inside the dressing room, the pressure, and the mentality of surviving as a top-level No.1.
He opens up on the brutal moment Pep Guardiola told him he wasn’t part of the new City vision, the emotional rollercoaster of being England’s first-choice keeper, and the madness of shooting sessions with Beckham, Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard and Crouchy himself. The lads also go deep on team culture, loans, being replaced, punditry life, and even why goalkeepers should be allowed to wear hats again.
And of course, there are stories from the 2010 World Cup dartboard battles, arguments with Declan Rice, and Joe’s new extreme-challenge podcast. Let us know in the comments — what would YOU have done in Joe’s position when Pep arrived?
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00:00 – England negativity & international break chat
00:08:58 – Joe Hart introduced; 2010 World Cup darts stories
00:13:36 – Quick-fire round: stadiums, managers & teammates
00:18:34 – Goalkeeper hats, towels & old-school traditions
00:36:02 – The Man City takeover & Robinho signing shock
00:37:24 – Loan to Birmingham; rivalry with Shay Given
00:38:02 – Paddy Power’s Big Weekend Fixture and predictions break
00:45:16 – Becoming City No.1 with Shay Given on the bench
00:51:14 – Pep Guardiola arrives & drops Joe Hart
00:52:53 – Joe explains talking with Pep afterwards
00:54:40 – Aguero moment & iconic celebration behind the scenes
00:59:30 – Title-winning night & surreal Man United awards
01:01:19 – Being England No.1 & dealing with constant changes
01:05:41 – England shooting sessions with elite attackers
01:23:48 – Working on Match of the Day as a pundit
01:25:39 – Joe Hart’s new podcast & the “mind over everything” concept
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the A-Class Creator Network. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello, and welcome to that Peter Crutch podcast with me, Peter Crutch. |
| 0:07.7 | Looking forward to today's episode, lads. |
| 0:09.5 | But how have you been? |
| 0:11.2 | Everyone has been okay? |
| 0:12.4 | All good. |
| 0:12.9 | Yeah, we're back. |
| 0:13.9 | International breaks over. |
| 0:15.2 | So it's been all right, isn't it? |
| 0:19.4 | It's been a little bit tancock, isn't it? |
| 0:22.6 | I don't know, I got into it a bit, obviously. |
| 0:26.0 | Do you think everyone's excited or as excited as they should be, |
| 0:31.6 | given how well England have done? |
| 0:34.0 | No, there's always some sort of negativity around us, isn't there? |
| 0:37.2 | I do think we do it to top players as well. You know, there's so much talk about around Jude Bellingham and, can't we just celebrate what a fantastic young player we've got who's playing for Royal Madrid? It feels like that's the agenda, doesn't it? Like, well, what we've done, we've done, we've done the, we've done the, we've done the, |
| 0:54.2 | record, |
| 0:54.6 | we've run 10 consecutive games. |
| 0:56.7 | Racco's a goal. |
| 0:57.4 | But let's not celebrate that. |
| 0:59.5 | Let's just, |
| 1:00.1 | um, |
| 1:05.8 | focus on a few negatives and make a story, isn't it? That's what it is. It does feel like that, I suppose it's going to happen all the way. |
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