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Jack Petchey

Jack Petchey

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Search complete. 5 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Jack Petchey".

Oct 15, 2026

MikeHOST
37:32
And I mean, that, that protest against Grimsby goes down in-- has gone down in folklore, hasn't it? That, uh, in 1994, Jase will remember it.
MikeHOST
37:40
There was a-- We lost three-nil at home to Grimsby, and a small but determined knot of Watford fans sto-tried to storm the director's box where they saw, thought Jack Petchey was.
MikeHOST
37:50
And that was visible action.
MikeHOST
37:53
And that, that-- It was, it was a different world then.
MikeHOST
38:00
People are upset." It was visible, and it counted.
MikeHOST
38:04
It was small, really, and it certainly didn't make any difference really.
MikeHOST
38:08
Jack Petchey wasn't even there.
MikeHOST
38:09
But that visibility, that sort of physical proof that people are prepared to do something was evident.
RonAUDIENCE
10:03
This is worse than that because, um, the club was not 60 million in debt back then.
RonAUDIENCE
10:08
Uh, Jack Petchey, for all his faults, did try and run it as a business.
RonAUDIENCE
10:13
He didn't leave it massively in debt, and he built two and a half stands.
RonAUDIENCE
10:18
Um, but you, you didn't have players, you know, um, who just there on one-year deals with no heart.
RonAUDIENCE
10:40
He lied that Krepin Diatta, um, was brought in because of the scouting as opposed to his agent who t- um, yesterday said, um, his wage demands were too high and he desperately had to join a club.
RonAUDIENCE
10:53
Um, it's just utter lies, and they treat us, um, with complete contempt.
RonAUDIENCE
10:59
So Jack Petchey didn't treat us with contempt, but Pozzo and Duxbury treat us with contempt.
RonAUDIENCE
11:05
So, um, it, it is the nadir.
JamesHOST
5:29
And, you know, it felt like that was something to cling onto.
JamesHOST
5:32
Uh, this feels like going back to the, you know, end of the, uh, was it Elton John he handed to, was it Jack Petchey or something like that in the-
NedHOST
5:41
Something like that
JamesHOST
5:41
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