Alex Crook

This is Outspoken.

It is Sam Matterface, Alex Crook and Gary.

I think that's what his name is.

Isn't it, Frankie?

Hey, no one wants to be disinvited to those lunches.

Uh, alongside me, TalkSport's chief football correspondent, Alex Crook, who thought load management was pacing yourself at the all-inclusive bar, and former Watford captain, Troy Deeney, who in 15 years as a professional footballer never once pulled out of anything, especially not an argument with a Spurs fan.

Actually, I kinda think that sentence could've ended four words earlier.

Uh, on the show today, England are back at Wembley for the first time since the World Cup, and they're back against the world champions Saturday night, with five of the original squad already gone.

Um, but Troy, thank you very much.

Enjoy yourself.

And Alex, thank you very much as well.

Premier League All Access, the home of informed opinion and entertainment, is back on Monday when you wake up.

Yeah, yeah, I have.

Also, Alex Crook isn't here.

He hasn't even shown up.

That's just to tell you the level that Crook is at.

So we're asking whether alarm bells should be ringing at the Emirates, or maybe whether we're being a little bit overdramatic about a bump in the road for Arteta's champions.

Joining me to decide is TalkSport's chief football correspondent, Alex Crook.

Crookie, how you doing, mate?

Yeah, I'm good.

Hello, and welcome to Premier League All Access with me, Sam Matterface, TalkSport's chief football correspondent.

Alex Crook is here, the best connected man in English football, and a Manchester United supporter that has never knowingly paid for a ticket.

And after this weekend, Alex Crook, that looks like the smartest financial decision that anyone connected with Old Trafford-

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... has ever made.

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Um, that is it for today.

My thanks to Alex Crook, who decided to walk out during the Heroes and Villains section because, um, he had to get a train and couldn't be bothered to wait till the end of the podcast.

I'm Adrian Durham, the voice of live football on Talksport.

And I'm Alex Crook, Talksport's chief football correspondent.

Yes, it's the show where each of us arrive armed with one blazing hot take ready to be debated and quite possibly torn apart.

So Crooky, the last time I spoke to you, it was on yesterday's episode of the Talksport Daily.

You can't really argue, can you? [laughs]

Yeah, I, I, like I say, I'm up against it.

It's, it's, uh, it's strong Manchester United connection, but I'm gonna do my very best not to p- not, not to, uh, have her go through the torment, the kind of torment that Alex Crook goes through virtually daily.

And by the way, is he blaming the Glazers for it or is he blaming Xerxi for it?

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Premier League All Access with me, Sam Matterface.

Alongside me, it's TalkSPORT's chief football correspondent, Alex Crook, and the former captain, uh, Troy Deeney, the Premier League servant extraordinaire.

Um, but Alex Crook didn't make it to Old Trafford in midweek, but he has asked Jim Ratcliffe if he can have his money back anyway.

And Troy Deeney, a man who captained a club through worse Wednesday nights than that and still turned up for training on Thursday, mostly.

Um, this is the home of informed opinion and entertainment.