Peter Crouch Forgetting His Champions League Goal Record On Live TV Is Hilarious
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Peter Crouch is widely loved for his ability to laugh at himself - and he showed that off to full effect with a hilarious blunder on live TV.
After Phil Foden became just the fifth English player to score in both legs of a Champions League quarter-final tie, BT Sport host Jake Humphries quizzed his panel - including Crouch - on the other four.
Fellow pundits Joleon Lescott and Owen Hargreaves fired in their guesses and it was revealed that Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard and Raheem Sterling were correct answers. Humphries paused on the final answer - waiting for the man himself to own up.
But a clueless-looking Crouch wasn't being modest. He genuinely didn't know that he was the other player. Classic.
:joy: @petercrouch really forgot that he'd scored in both legs of a Champions League quarter-final...
- Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) April 14, 2021
"Good times!" :ok_hand: pic.twitter.com/yn8FDgVnCt
"Was it?" asked a stumped Peter when the answer was revealed, before himself and the whole panel burst into fits of laughter.
"I was a good player, you know!" he added, before Humphries explained: "I was giving that the long delay, because he obviously knows it's him...".
He's underated even by himself :sob:
- Glen Kightley (@Glen_Kightley) April 14, 2021
Peter crouch is a living legend :joy:
- :exclamation:MAC:exclamation: (@Ghostin365) April 14, 2021
Love this guy. :joy::joy:
- Jake Humphrey :blue_heart: (@mrjakehumphrey) April 14, 2021
Afraid not, Jake. The 40-year-old ex-England striker clearly doesn't spend a lot of time analysing his own records or he'd have known that back in the 2006/07 season - when Liverpool got to the Champions League final - Crouch scored in both quarter-final legs during a 4-0 aggregate triumph over PSV Eindhoven.
@petercrouch has got to be one of the funniest footballers ever. Nuff said. :joy: https://t.co/FeHthRGjHW
- Jensen Lewis Coleman (@JensenColeman4) April 15, 2021
:joy::joy::joy: what a guy @petercrouch is, he's not your typical footballer!! https://t.co/ExXOWwFbdC
- :soccer: :flag_black: (@away_tours) April 14, 2021
It's physically impossible not to love this man https://t.co/YkBde6CeCF
- stu (@stuart_fearn) April 14, 2021
The 20-year-old Foden's two goals in two games came against Borussia Dortmund and were crucial in sealing a 4-2 aggregate win for Manchester City.
That sets up a mouth-watering tie against Paris Saint-Germain, while Real Madrid take on Chelsea in the other semi-final.
Phil Foden scores a crucial goal on the road for Man City! :dart:
- Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) April 14, 2021
You can see what it means to Pep Guardiola! pic.twitter.com/uYXrZlLYns
It also meant Foden wrote his name alongside Rooney, Lampard, Sterling and Crouch as an English player to have done the business in quarter-final first and second legs.
And, apparently, nobody was more surprised than Crouch to learn that the five players shared membership of an elite club.
Never change, Crouchinho.
- Peter Crouch (@petercrouch) April 14, 2021
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Topics: Phil Foden, Peter Crouch, Champions League
