At 6ft 7in, Crouch was no one’s idea of a footballer – and even his own fans liked to tell him so. But he defied the boos to become a Premier League legend, celebrated podcaster – and the subject of a new documentary
Peter Crouch is listing the sporting legends you might expect to have a film made about them. “Alex Ferguson, Usain Bolt, Steven Gerrard, that kind of thing,” he says. “It did make me think: why would anyone want to make a film about me?”
And why did they, I ask.