⚽ A Whole New Ball Game ⚽

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:11)
Hello, and welcome to Footballing Hell with...

**Rob Beckett** (0:16)
I like to be Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:20)
Oh, here we go.

**Rob Beckett** (0:21)
Oh, here we go. So here's the way we're going to start the show. I'm going to get a footballer each week, and you've got to tell me who it is.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:26)
Oh, my word. Should we not explain what the show is first?

**Rob Beckett** (0:29)
No. Okay.
Let's just do the quick intro.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:33)
We'll hear it again then.

**Rob Beckett** (0:34)
Basically, each week on this show, it's our football podcast show, you're going to do the intro, and I'm going to play a footballer saying our names. You only get to hear it twice. I like to be Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:48)
David James.

**Rob Beckett** (0:49)
Rio Ferdinand.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:51)
Well, there you go.

**Rob Beckett** (0:51)
Do you like this?

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:52)
Yeah, I do. I'm in a WhatsApp group with Rio Ferdinand.

**Rob Beckett** (0:55)
Are you? What for?

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:59)
It's a classic WhatsApp group, Rob. It's me, Rio Ferdinand, Sarah Cox, Johnny Peacock, the Paralympian.

**Rob Beckett** (1:07)
Is this when you did some sort of sport relief charity thing?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:09)
We did the Crystal Maze together.

**Rob Beckett** (1:18)
Lovely. Right, okay. Should we explain what this show is? But that's how we're going to start it.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:22)
So do not worry if you're a Parenting Hell listener at all.
In fact, this is good news if you're a Parenting Hell listener. Parenting Hell will remain exactly the same, Tuesday and Friday, but we just thought we'd do something extra and it would stop us talking about football during Parenting Hell. Rob, the floor is yours.

**Rob Beckett** (1:40)
Yes, so nothing in these episodes will be talking about our children, our parenting, our wives, our lives.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:47)
Well, it might be, because we can't keep track of anything.

**Rob Beckett** (1:49)
If you are a Parenting Hell listener, feel free to listen to this as well.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:53)
We'd love you to.

**Rob Beckett** (1:54)
Well, yeah, that'd be great, actually. Or even if you don't like it, just sort of play it in the background on mute.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:00)
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

**Rob Beckett** (2:01)
Numbers do help. Yeah. And yeah, so basically we're going to have this every week as an extra, but we're not going to be talking about.
It's basically a place where me and Josh can talk about something that we really love and care about.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:12)
Yeah, yeah, because we felt finally we've earned it.

**Rob Beckett** (2:15)
Yeah, exactly, because after talking about our wife and kids, you do sort of need to be able to talk passionately about something.
That's something you really care about, which is football. So this will just be football, nothing else to do with our lives.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:30)
Is there anything I've missed?

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:32)
Yeah, well, if you're across the football podcast realm, you might have noticed that it's slick. It's being sold to Netflix. It's being sold to Disney. It's megastars talking about tactics and how they understand football and football as they know.

**Rob Beckett** (2:49)
Yes.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:49)
We thought we might try to do the exact opposite of that and bring Parenting Hell, shambles, lack of professionalism, lack of knowledge, lack of respect, lack of respect, and the best kind of anecdotes will be about the Crystal Maze. It's that kind of thing.

**Rob Beckett** (3:07)
We hope to offer absolutely zero insight into formations, tactics, inverted, all that bollocks. X, G, all that shit.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:17)
VAR, whether it was offside or not, I don't know. I don't really understand the handball rule, if I'm honest with you, these days.

**Rob Beckett** (3:25)
We're more here for the soap opera, the drama. I want to talk about Sucker's New Haircut.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:31)
Haircuts, clothes.

**Rob Beckett** (3:32)
Haircuts, clothes.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:34)
Silly names.

**Rob Beckett** (3:35)
No documentary. Silly names?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:38)
I don't mind a silly name, Rob.

**Rob Beckett** (3:40)
I think it's a tightrope there, isn't it?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:43)
It's dead. Silly English names.

**Rob Beckett** (3:48)
We've got the Chinese national team, Josh. No, that's...
So, this is a football show for football fans that haven't got links to the club. We're not... I say that. I mean, you know, because if you listen to other football ones, they're all like, you know, when I was there with Fergie and all that, but you are, Josh, the... I saw on the TV, the Plymouth... You're the Plymouth ambassador.