Crouch: England Fallout, Mythbusters & How To Stop Messi! | Stick to Football EP 143

**Gary Neville** (0:00)
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Come in Crouchy.

**Ian Wright** (0:13)
How are you?

**Gary Neville** (0:15)
Where is he sat by the way?

**Peter Crouch** (0:15)
Right at the end.

**Roy Keane** (0:17)
In the King's chair.

**Gary Neville** (0:18)
In the chair, man. How are we going?

**Peter Crouch** (0:21)
Yeah, we're good, we're good.

**Gary Neville** (0:23)
Yeah, how long have we got?

**Peter Crouch** (0:23)
We've been away from our lunch, there.

**Ian Wright** (0:25)
About an hour and a half.

**Gary Neville** (0:26)
And lunch is five o'clock.

**Peter Crouch** (0:27)
Oh, yeah, late lunch.

**Gary Neville** (0:29)
A boozy one.

**Peter Crouch** (0:30)
We're just getting that, weren't we? I'll lift them to it.

**Gary Neville** (0:34)
Crouchy, the team have been, they reckon you deleted a tweet last night, which is-

**Peter Crouch** (0:38)
Oh, I did, yeah, I did. I've got loads of grief.
I wanted to go like, the lads did, you know what I mean? Like, let's be proud of them. Like, in this now, in this moment, you're, what the, you know, and all that was.

**Gary Neville** (0:53)
I'm going to read your tweet out to Roy and Ian, I think that's funny. But you know something, it's sad that you've put something that's quite support.

**Peter Crouch** (1:01)
So I'm trying to go positive, right? And then, yeah, and then obviously everyone's piled on, but I'm not going to go into, you know, what I think about the manager and the tactics and this and that. I've been out there the whole time and I've had the best time.

**Gary Neville** (1:13)
Yeah.

**Peter Crouch** (1:13)
I've had such a good time out here.

**Gary Neville** (1:15)
Yeah.

**Peter Crouch** (1:16)
And every England game I've like, yeah, there's been some good and bad, but I've loved being a part of it. I've got to go into the England camp.

**Gary Neville** (1:22)
Yeah. Also, you've lived, you've been there and been knocked out at 12 months as well. So you tried to be nice on Twitter.

**Peter Crouch** (1:27)
I tried to be nice and I got loads and I thought, no one's seen that anyway.

**Gary Neville** (1:31)
Apart from Kieran and Barry.

**Peter Crouch** (1:32)
New.

**Ian Wright** (1:35)
We're staring all night. Just waiting.

**Peter Crouch** (1:40)
We'll have him on that tomorrow.

**Gary Neville** (1:41)
He's fucking deleted it. He's deleted it. That's even better. Hey, but Crouchy, it's one of them, isn't it? How long did you leave it up for?

**Peter Crouch** (1:49)
I want ages. I went back to it and then I went off. I'm getting loads here. No one will see that.

**Gary Neville** (1:57)
Oh, that's brilliant. When I saw that, I said, no, you wouldn't have deleted that. It's quite a nice tweet.

**Peter Crouch** (2:01)
Yeah, yeah. Like there's nothing bad about it at all. There's nothing bad about it, but there's a lot of animosity out there.

**Gary Neville** (2:08)
It's never good when you get more comments than likes.

**Peter Crouch** (2:13)
I just thought, what am I even achieving with it?

**Gary Neville** (2:16)
I know, but it's a sad reality of where X has got to in particular. Look, if we just read that out, gutted we are out, but we're watching Argentinians experience, Messi is just a genius and a hard bastard as well, like the rest of them. I'm proud of our lads and what they've achieved at the World Cup. Some real heroes emerged. It was a pleasure to be here for it.
How can you get absolutely blitzed for that? You know what I mean, you've said, look, we're gutted. Proud of the lads that played well. Some heroes emerged. Jude, Jed Spence, maybe a couple of other lads. And then the whack comes.

**Peter Crouch** (2:56)
It was more so like you've missed out a fucking load of stuff there.

**Gary Neville** (3:05)
It's not a comprehensive review of the match. You're not a journalist, that's the right essay.

**Peter Crouch** (3:10)
I'm not writing or dissecting the game. I'm just saying that I had some great moments out there and players deserve some credit. I didn't say anything about the manager because I didn't want to criticise him or praise him.

**Gary Neville** (3:22)
Yeah. Oh, well.

**Peter Crouch** (3:24)
Yeah, you know what I mean?

**Gary Neville** (3:26)
Roy.

**Roy Keane** (3:26)
Oh, you're looking smart.

**Peter Crouch** (3:29)
How are you, mate? Everything's all right. Yeah, good to see you, mate. Yeah, yeah, good to see you. Oh, sorry, my hip.