Stuart Pearce’s Phil Foden Warning: Out of the World Cup?
Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily
talkSPORT
4.5 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Max Rushden and Andy Jacobs are joined by a packed guest list to dissect the latest in the football world.
England legend Stuart Pearce gives a brutal assessment of the Three Lions' recent loss, suggesting Phil Foden may have played his way out of the World Cup squad.
Paul Watson joins the conversation to highlight the incredible stories of the smaller nations who defied the odds to reach the World Cup.
We also speak with Walking Football Player of the Year Spencer Pratten about his late-career rise and his journey in the game.
To wrap things up, Andy delivers a characteristically bizarre edition of ‘News and Nonsense,’ finally revealing the secrets behind his trouser shopping.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're listening to The H&J Daily, Max Rushton and Andy Jacobs, your dream partnership today. What a show it was, Andy. It was, yeah, tremendous. It was the best ever. Perhaps the best ever. I like the bit where I fell over. That was the best bit. We'll keep that bit in. Andy fell over. Reaching for his notes. It was excellent. It was good to add some sort of slapstick, some last of the summer wine. |
| 0:24.3 | I did it for his notes. It was excellent. It was good to add some sort of slapstick, some last of the summer wine. |
| 0:24.3 | I did it for the TV viewers. |
| 0:25.6 | It wasn't for the radio audience. |
| 0:27.6 | Of course, of course. |
| 0:29.2 | Anyway, we spoke to the best walking footballer in the world, a man called Spencer Pratton, |
| 0:35.0 | who plays for Chelmsford City and England. |
| 0:37.4 | He was good value, wasn't it? |
| 0:38.9 | Very enthusiastic supporter of that branch of the sport. It was good. He was. He looked about |
| 0:43.9 | 25. I'm not questioning his age, of course. But yeah, he looked absolutely great. Stuart Pierce came on |
| 0:51.3 | to talk about England and the Stranglers and what was that other band called? |
| 0:56.7 | Ferocious Dog. |
| 0:58.1 | That was it. |
| 0:58.7 | Ferocious Dog. |
| 0:59.8 | And we had a chat about stuff. |
| 1:01.3 | And don't forget Paul Watson with his sort of world view of football. |
| 1:04.9 | It was just fun. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah, yeah, he's a good man. |
| 1:07.8 | So here it all is. |
| 1:27.6 | Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Andy. Great intro. A couple of slips, but that's understandable. Terrible. Yeah, really bad. Honestly, I'm watching things like the one show. I'm so critical of these presenters. I said, he's made another slip. That's another. God, I can't even read one sentence without doing it. But there we go. What can you do? There's nothing you can do. All you can do is try your very best, Andy. And if it's no good, it doesn't really matter at the end of it. Someone else will turn up and do a show. That's very true. doing we're just doing the same again tomorrow. We're going to talk about England. |
| 1:44.5 | It was a bit of a disaster. |
| 1:45.7 | I didn't really, I mean, I was a friendly, but, you know, Japan were great, weren't they? What a good team they are. Really good. Yeah, they are. And Barney Ronnie Ronnie wrote a piece in The Guardian and said, they play, Japan play like Japan. and England play like they're not sure |
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