Could Paul Scholes actually tackle? | That Peter Crouch Podcast

Peter Crouch, Chris Stark and Tom Fordyce discuss the art of tackling, including Paul Scholes: bad at tackling or out for revenge every game?
There's the story of a Liverpool team-mate who wouldn't hold back against Crouch on international duty, and why John Obi Mikel was the recipient of the worst tackle he ever made.
In matters off the pitch, there's a tale involving rubber gloves, a mouse and some curtains.
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Could Paul Scholes actually tackle? | That Peter Crouch Podcast

[@pjposullivan]

Love that you're blurring the logo on the pint glass, even though it's obviously Guinness.

[@BBCSounds]

No idea what you're talking about 👀 Other stouts are available.

[@bycolourshraum8107]

@@BBCSounds massive respect for this comment 😂😂😂

[@sainsburmcmanus2696]

It's a drink that rhymes with Suinness

[@willturner803]

Meanwhile every episode of the one show is one big fat half hour long advert.

[@mrmagic1989]

A big pint of Murphy's 😄👍

[@davidlogan8905]

7:57 I'm so glad Crouch mentioned Wes Brown. I always thought Wes epitomised the tough but fair tackle. Even these days when I see a player take the ball and absolutely go through a player I think "whoa that was such a Wes Brown tackle"

[@davidcunningham9282]

i've always refused to believe that a man who's timing is so impeccable in every other aspect of his game is a bad tackler. he was just going through people

[@Mr___X]

na, couldn't tackle

[@davidcunningham9282]

@@Mr___X yeah but you get what i'm saying. like his timing in every other part of his game was incredible. others he played with have alluded to the fact he was often just taking people out and he kind of said it himself a couple of years ago

[@Mr___X]

@@davidcunningham9282 nah scholes is hugely overrated by football hipsters

[@davidcunningham9282]

@@Mr___X football hipsters like zidane and xavi?

[@Mr___X]

@@davidcunningham9282 that's a bingo

[@harryfox5821]

crouch to take over from lineker as host of match of the day

[@inBODwetrust13]

Crouch actually has a personality, that's not something the BBC put up with for long

[@HAL-zv6xn]

@@inBODwetrust13 😂😂

[@pecklehead]

@@inBODwetrust13 so has lineker., he's brilliant at it, so explain that one

[@chilldude30]

@@inBODwetrust13 you know this is paid for by BBC nad crouch works for bbc lol, look at the channel

[@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733]

No way. It will be a black gay female. Defo.

[@alfredthegreat9543]

Peter Crouch- the ex-player every football fan would like a beer with 👍

[@Ecojock]

Great interview!!! You guys are the best.

[@BDAShadow1]

"Peter Crouch Crazy Tackle" is the first suggestion as soon as you get to "Peter C". Love this show.

[@bhew7409]

wish the whole thing was on youtube

[@perrym.anderson178]

Yes please!

[@awsomef2004]

It is on spotify i believe which is free

[@HoNoRey]

also on apple podcasts.

[@perrym.anderson178]

@@awsomef2004 Yeah want the whole video! Am a regular listener.

[@barbarohelm9697]

Very underrated scholes watched him for years totally controlled the game with his passing ,dictated the tempo and chipped in with goals .

[@evanirwin4035]

Underrated ? He's universally one of the best English midfielders ever and literally one of the greatest premier league midfielders

[@joshwelsh3662]

@@evanirwin4035 aye but he's rated higher on a global level more so by players than by fans.

[@garyrae5413]

What?

[@mrtoad1408]

He was used as the benchmark for a centre mid at La Masia

[@unclebens6031]

Evan Irwin but fans rate Lampard and Gerrard much higher cos scholes isn’t centre of attention

[@papanoel3999]

I absolutely love that Peter crouch podcast ..brilliant..

[@jonhill3328]

Love Crouchy, very funny bloke but always insightful too 👍🏻

[@ElmoUploads1479]

Crouch is that guy that earns decent money but still shops in b&m

[@IMclovin94I]

Thats how the rich stay rich. You ever see bill gates stunting gucci 😂

[@SheerDrop]

@@IMclovin94I That's true but when you're a billionaire, spending 3 grand on a gucci coat is literally nothing. It's less than 0.0003 of his net worth. That would be like a normal person's pocket change, literally. About 8 pence to be exact. What they mean when they say "the rich don't get rich by spending money", is that they spend a proportionate amount. They can spend 300k on a car and it would be like a regular person buying a second hand, used car. No money wasted.

[@Danno_88]

@@IMclovin94I you add the crying laughing emoji but you're actually right

[@jordanwoodhouse9734]

@@IMclovin94I bill gates could wipe his arse with Gucci

[@alexsosa266]

Good on him...

[@KnightJPB]

Late tackler and a revenge tackler I’d describe him as. Sometimes dove in way to late and got silly bookings, but as crouchy said, very good memory and would get people back, he learnt that from Roy.

[@Daniel_Addy]

That’s it, he never held his own until he met Roy Keane 👍

[@Learntheharmonica]

"Can you describe yourself in three words?" "No"

[@jakemodi3615]

I'm gonna try that at my next job interview

[@Nat-fj2bf]

Crouch such a top man, great podcast.

[@nicklato1226]

How can you watch the full podcast?

[@rajdogg787]

I love these podcasts 🤣🤣

[@davidlogan8905]

2:34 Hahaha Crouch is a funny dude. Loved that!

[@TGriffor08]

Do they video record the whole episodes? If so were do the post them?

[@goodday4221]

"How'd you get the mouse down from the curtain?" Crouchy: [pause] Cricket bat, mate.

[@ll-ft4iv]

7:27 Skrtel 1 inch vertical jump🤣

[@thiefoftomorrow]

Love that he mentioned le tiss. Suck a shame he was in the era he was

[@creativeamerican8811]

2:32 Alan Partridge Noise

[@franksorry2653]

Theory number 3: Unbelievably gifted. Calculated and controlled in every aspect. Never hesitant to take one for the team.. even if it meant personally missing a final.

[@corriblehunt4554]

Xabi Alonso is definitely on that list. I'll always remember Scholes losing his rag and basically taking a swing Alonso because he wouldn't give him any space

[@mrtw2095]

United still won that game, classic

[@Jack_The_Ladd]

According to Rio, Fergie didn’t even have a go at Scholes at full time, he just turned to him and said well done.

[@bharathsf]

Because that Basque C**t was pulling his shirt

[@TomsTV]

Hahhaha love this!

[@nickriches4641]

I dont know how you couldn't love Crouchy

[@KR-jg7gc]

Wes Brown ♥️

[@louisharrington-edmans6737]

Crouchy should of jumped off Martin Skrtels, imagine the height he'd of got.

[@alexsosa266]

He also made smart fouls to stop breaks high up the pitch...

[@chilldude30]

Comment from 7 years ago on the Peter crouch crazy tackle video: *like someone throwing a ladder at you*

[@SimplyJackox]

I’ve don’t know the two guys talking to crouch but I can tell the middle guys a united fan.

[@DISTER141]

Chris Stark must be fun at parties

[@irishmatt101]

Scholes "bad" tackling comes from playing in Europe. The refs in those games didn't let the same things go as in England

[@billywalendom]

I remember the cover of fifa street 3 and figured they were all cartoonish caricatures but crouch was actually spot on

[@MrDeand93]

Crouchys defo on the bag here

[@AhmedMohamed-vc5md]

Hahaha

[@MS-sy8ls]

Superb 80s tackle

[@Henry-sd7vd]

I don't think he's necessarily a bad tackler. He's more of a revenge tackler. You can quite see in most of his horrendous tackles, against Reyes, Deschamps etc that he has absolutely no intention of winning the ball and is doing more to hurt his opponent.

[@barbarohelm9697]

Seriously city were in div 2 when he was in his prime

[@cbarclay99]

Scholes got away with 'he can't tackle, so don't book him' for years. His stats would be far worse, had referees treated him properly in the early years.

[@hehwhwh727]

he was a tactical fouler

[@lartranslation6929]

wes brown legend!!

[@aaronkidd4257]

I just looked tackle up as laughing at it fucking hell couchie Barely touches him but it’s the flying got me

[@kawhistraightface1462]

Wes Brown 😍

[@THOMASCOLTON1]

Scholes was good but no Lingard

[@mnb9162]

The mis-use of Scholes is a topic which always crops up. I think England actually do better when they dont have Stars which they need to always put in the team. Kind of makes the manager pick the best team for each match instead of always having to pick the same players.

[@bigworm2051]

Crouch for president

[@hoze1235]

dont wanna get on scholes naughty list 😁😁

[@105wonky8]

Petition for robot 🤖 dance 💃 emoji

[@zephergaming4437]

Love how that now crouchies retired he’s being painted as a Dimitar berbatov/Dennis bergkamp and not an Wmile Heskey reincarnate lol

[@denzel1989]

Heskey was a very good striker for Leicester and liverpool

[@mnb9162]

Yeh crouchy actually has got a pretty good reputation set before he retired. And whatever your reputation is when you retire kind of sticks forever. Most people do have him down as a technically good footballer. Like the most notable things I remember of Crouchy is some pretty good goals of his and his pretty decent touch in the build up.

[@aaronkeane2336]

Crouch was actually decent technically, more so than Heskey anyways. Obviously wasn't quite the same level as Berba and Bergkamp though

[@herbert9241]

Crouchy was England's (as in national team) most reliable goal-scorer at one point; his ability is more than myth.

[@nickmccartan8128]

Big bad Wesley Brown the hardest man in all of town

[@charleslucas911]

He was a useless girl when he was at blackburn

[@nickmccartan8128]

@@charleslucas911 he was at tail end of his career and hampered by injuries by the time he rocked up at Blackburn

[@charleslucas911]

doesn't mean he wasn't wank

[@barbarohelm9697]

Think Japp stam and Duncan Ferguson's

[@mattlord97]

As a united fan he could tackle very decently he just chose not to haha. And he didn't need to, he wasn't that kind of player

[@stephenjames227]

Matthew Lord lol didnt want to, what you knew him or something

[@simplyballing1592]

Remember when Scholesy wanted to literally punch Xabi Alonso on the Anfield pitch

[@number9scores]

Cruyff had a turn named after him. Scholes had a tackle named after him. The Scholes tackle is that dirty tackle in the first 2 minutes, usually around the centre circle, that aimed to cripple the opposition's star player. 97 yellows and 4 reds. Got away with a lot more because refs were always lenient in the first few minutes.

[@BKSxSNIPIN]

Scholes has a pass named after him, let's not distract away from his genius mate. Greatest English Midfielder to play the game.

[@leematthews5697]

Is the guy on the left related to rob brydon by any chance and why is the interviewer talking like hes out of the office ffs..shame no real characters these days .Crouch top man.

[@willturner803]

You know times are tough when the beeb can't afford a few mic stands.

[@howardchambers9679]

Wish Peter would get his adenoids fixed

[@meckersley2123]

From a family of sports of 8,,me 6from the top or third from the bottom ,middle girl ,” my dad’s best advice don’t retaliate but you look up and take a number get them later

[@sportman2536]

I don’t believe 90 out of 97 yellow cards was mistimed.

[@fabianallnutt4783]

Scholes wasn't a natural tackler is fair to say.

[@Its.My.Life.]

Don’t sip a Guinness pal EVER

[@blacklotus5364]

My Life Pussy

[@ciaranc7460]

Guinness is meant to be gone in 5 large gulps.

[@blacklotus5364]

Ciaran C Why are you measuring it in those metrics? It takes time to settle, you don’t have to neck it due to the temperature as it’s served at or just below room temperature. It’s just a stout so it doesn’t go flat unless you’re a moron with it. Is this a millennial thing?

[@theshape3222]

Wulf Britton Jr. you poms are blasphemous. Beer at room temperature? Should be bloody illegal hahahahaha

[@Ben-ul8pr]

Does anyone think that thumbnail looks like Paul Scholes is about smack Peter Crouch

[@peterhildreth424]

crouch yid army x

[@ryescott9445]

Your better than the bbc. Go your own way

[@KMC47]

Great midfielder, probably the best but could not tackle for twopence 😸

[@54356776]

The funniest thing is , he could. Scholes never did anything that he didn't mean to do 😂 He showed he was a master tackler against Barcelona and in key games when he had to. I think he just liked smashing people.

[@philbright7389]

Would watch but BBC.

[@mrtoad1408]

Still gave them a view and comment for the metrics

[@BeezerWashingbeard]

I don't know why I'm being recommended this, I'm not even really into football. But thanks, KZbin algorithm.

[@willgoodall1529]

"I actually spoke to Paul Scholes recently." Unlucky

[@finding_aether]

If Scholes played in EPL today he'd probably be sent off once every 3 games

[@barbarohelm9697]

He wouldnt he be in the city side instead of Silva

[@105wonky8]

🐭🤔🤖👍

[@benbrookes7369]

105 Wonky more than decent

[@deejarrett8291]

If he was that good, along with Beckham, and all these other 'heroes', then they wouldn't have been so woeful in the major championships, would they? Its just sad that even when we saw it with our own eyes, we still can't accept that these players weren't all that they were cracked up to be.

[@Robbiebrad]

Scholes wouldn't of made the starting line-up for the 99 final anyway

[@kyriacandro]

I'm sure he would of mate

[@Bkh0498]

Of course he would have ffs it was butt and beckham in the midfield that night

[@cauliflowerpete616]

That brown haired guy looks like Josh Widdecombe’s brother.

[@ed1726]

I've seen Scholes play football and can confirm he is a poor tackler. Don't know why the evidence of your own eyes isn't enough to convince you of this one. He was slow and unfit (for a professional footballer) and let's not get confused that tackling is the same as passing. Plenty of defenders are good tacklers but are horrible at passing (for a professional footballer).

[@54356776]

It's because he could tackle and showed he could many times. Nobody says Roy Keane couldn't tackle but he smashed everyone. Scholes is also asthmatic not unfit.

[@jacktownsend7537]

What a terrible looking guiness

[@jonweaver9920]

Could add Jack Grealish to the list of players to build teams around. Big statement I know.

[@Dubbsteppa21]

calm down jacks a good player but hes not that good

[@joebloggs6922]

@@Dubbsteppa21 well he kind of is. Villa is built round him at the moment. Everything we do goes through him. And that's not me bumming him, it genuinely is like that. He's completely carrying us despite being played out of position.

[@Dubbsteppa21]

@@joebloggs6922 hes a good player in an avarage team

[@joebloggs6922]

@@Dubbsteppa21 he's a brilliant player in a currently below average team (we are improving). You can say he only stands out because he's surrounded by mediocre played and that's true but seriously the goals he's scored and the way he breaks down defences on his own warrants more acknowledgement than people give. Pundits are raving over him for a reason. He's got 8 goals and 6 assists and top of chances created from open play and top of most dribbles completed. How him and maddison don't get in the England team over players like Delph is beyond me.

[@fazertace6837]

No. End of story.

[@akib2542]

Crouch is jokes

[@MatthewMcRowan]

could crouch actually play football?

[@DISTER141]

Finger the mouse😂😂😂

[@jackgrant1988]

3:03 Crouch is open about his sex life

[@jamessimpson5676]

Will the little geezer get off his phone

[@ZolaMagic25]

Nope he couldn't

[@daedralord1]

Someone has a list fetish

[@mic7536]

He was just lazy and couldn't be bothered to chase back, great player though

[@peterpetigrew2869]

Not true

[@herbert9241]

Often popped up in the centre-back position, even for England. If you'd watched enough games you'd know this.

[@petermcdonna4160]

Tom Fordyce and Chris Stark would make good children's television presenters. Wankers.

[@franzbeck3177]

fuckin ridiculous stat...Roy Keane played nearly 150 games less than Scholes and had only 30 yellow cards less and 3 red cards more. Does that mean Roy Keane couldnt tackle??? when crouch runs out of football nostalgia...this podcast will be nothing

[@joebuckley8912]

Worst tackler ive ever seen

[@pleaseyourdeityhereletmere8926]

What utter bollocks!

[@gmacca21]

Most overrated player ever

[@Dubbsteppa21]

didnt see lingard anywhere in this video

[@jonathanbarlow2509]

Greatest English footballer of the last 40 years

[@gmacca21]

@@jonathanbarlow2509 pppfffttt not even top 10 how many individual awards did he get?? How many times was he in the team of the year?? Hardly any just covered by the real world class players in the man utd team. He's good but not that good

[@jonathanbarlow2509]

gmacca21 footballs a team sport, loads of talented players don’t get individual recognition or accolades but look at the players who’ve said how good he was almost every top player in that era who played with/against him says he’s one of the greatest in his position

[@joebloggs6922]

@@jonathanbarlow2509 bang on dude. Wouldnt say he's one of the best but definitely up there in the second bracket behins those people. Very very underrated ans misused towards the end of his career.

[@deejarrett8291]

Scholes wasn't that good.

[@akshatbetala2813]

Yeah and still better than every English midfielder other than sir Bobby Charlton