EP. 395 | Ranking More “Game’s Gone” Moments - Chelsea’s Ref Huddle & Digital Match Programmes?!
That Peter Crouch Podcast
Tall or Nothing
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast, Crouchy, Chris, and Sids dive headfirst into another chaotic round of your “Game’s Gone” submissions—and nothing is safe.
From Chelsea’s baffling centre-circle huddle (with the referee somehow stuck in the middle of it) to the death of printed matchday programmes, the lads dissect the modern game’s strangest trends with their usual mix of nostalgia and disbelief.
There’s outrage over “starter and finisher” terminology, confusion around American-style commentary creeping into football, and a proper debate on whether football is quietly losing its identity.
The boys also stumble into some all-time ridiculous footballer names, explore bizarre football simulator games, and question whether players today are a bit too… well moisturised.
Plus, Crouchy gears up for a Liverpool Legends return at Anfield—with big plans to bring back proper shin pads.
Packed with listener submissions, strong opinions, and plenty of laughs, this episode asks the big question once again: has the game well and truly gone?
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00:00 - Podcast intro & chaotic start
02:10 - The bespoke pint glass debate begins
04:12 - Glassblowing idea takes over
06:05 - Urban Dictionary football names chat
08:05 - “Have a look at yourself” card
09:05 - Chelsea’s centre-circle huddle controversy
11:00 - Referee standing in the huddle debate
12:45 - Why players might start disrupting it
14:05 - Worst footballer names ever
15:40 - American-style commentary in football
17:10 - “Power play” confusion story
18:40 - Season ticket pricing idea discussion
20:05 - Kick-off traditions disappearing
22:10 - Bizarre kick-off tactics breakdown
24:05 - VAR simulator game discovery
27:15 - Referee merch… who is buying it?!
30:20 - Souvenir ticket controversy
32:05 - Death of matchday programmes
34:10 - “Starters and finishers” debate
35:30 - Old-school defenders vs modern game
37:10 - Hair products & “Lego helmet” players
38:40 - Face cream in football debate
40:05 - Game’s Gone leaderboard update
41:20 - Man City players at train station story
42:20 - Crouchy’s Liverpool Legends return
44:10 - Shin pads campaign returns
46:00 - International fixtures predictions
49:10 - Bet builder picks
51:00 - Wales vs Bosnia predictions
52:20 - Italy vs Northern Ireland predictions
53:15 - Outro & next week teaser
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to that Peter Crouch podcast, me Peter Crouch. |
| 0:03.4 | Notorious this idea and Chris Stark are with me. |
| 0:05.8 | Everyone okay? |
| 0:20.8 | Really good. Yeah, really good, yeah. I'm really good. Yeah. You good, mate. Yeah, you're very caring, aren't you? Are you good? I'm good. Good. We were all good. Great. I've had an idea. So you know we still haven't sorted this pint glass situation. |
| 0:21.8 | Oh, it's disgusting. |
| 0:22.4 | In it? Look at it. |
| 0:23.3 | Yours is a right being the glass. Great. I've had an idea. So you know, we still haven't sorted this pint glass situation. |
| 0:21.8 | Oh, it's disgusting. |
| 0:22.4 | In it? Look at it. |
| 0:23.2 | Yours is a Rite being in the glass. |
| 0:25.1 | Sid's got a Guinness |
| 0:25.8 | with lager in it. It's poor. It's a mess. For a podcast. I don't even know what that is. I mean, that's half acceptable. Yeah. But still, even now, I mean, it's still cloudy, isn't it? |
| 0:35.0 | It's cloudy of a chance of meatballs. |
| 0:37.8 | So obviously, we want to design some glasses. |
| 0:40.9 | And the easy option here is to make Peter Crouch podcast glasses. And then we get them and listeners can have them and that sort of. Then we can have them here. They'll look quite nice. But I was thinking, are we missing a trick? Not having a bit like the Laot was a selling point because it was the one of a kind |
| 0:55.2 | drink do we need to design a glass that is it's physically bespoke to this podcast do we need |
| 1:01.9 | the tallest glass of them all well like a really thin tall one yes but a pint glass still but a pint |
| 1:10.2 | glass yeah so like it doesn't happen super thin thin, but a little bit, yeah, thinner than the average. But bigger than a perone. That's going to be tall that. It is going to be tall. Really tall. But, because normally I was in a restaurant on the weekend and I had a bottle of beer and that went in a thin glass. You had a large peroni, did you? The large bars. No, no, no. Just a normal, regular bottle of beer. It was an Asian fusion restaurant, and they poured it into it. Hold on a minute. And there's me thinking it was a pizza express. Do you know what? Corchelle, Nice, Asian fusion. We've lost it. The game's gone. Crank open the Chelsea contract out there. Cranch, I want to have a look at us. We've lost, we've lost Steve Sidwell. We've lost him. The game's gone. No. Asian fusion. Very good. Listen, you've already eaten this restaurant before, all of you. I know you have. Oh, yeah. Yes, you have. |
| 2:17.6 | Never been there. Never been there. Yeah. Oh, fuck yeah. All I'm saying is, a bottle of beer, we can go in quite a tall thing glass. You're talking about a pint, that'll be, that's like a, that'll be a vines. A pint's worth. I think similar to a peroni one, |
| 2:19.0 | maybe slightly slimmer peroni. |
| 2:19.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:20.1 | And higher. |
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