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E162 - World Cup Roundtable: Rio Ferdinand, Peter Crouch & Joe Cole

The High Performance Podcast

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Is That What Plan for England Was Like?

I always felt like I had to prove, I'd score in every game just to stay in there because I didn't fit the profile of a England player. Almost every former England player that I now work with on the telly says, I plan for England was like scary. That's true. I was rigid, I was tight, I was anxious about the reaction to media. I was never free. Even starting the first game in the World Cup like 2006 and in the dresser room before round, players were doing things that they'd never done before. Just tiny little things. Do you remember? No, I'm not. Everyone's looking at yourself like that. You know,

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