Crouch wants his long balls back from the statisticians

Tom Fordyce returns for an episode that questions football jargon and entertains Brighton's title ambitions.

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Tom Fordyce: Successful Launches, Streakers & Could Brighton Actually WIN The League?! | EP. 431

Peter Crouch hears a long ball described as a "successful launch" and has a straightforward objection: "Can we not just say long ball?" It is a useful starting point for a podcast whose football analysis rarely stays solemn for long.

Tom Fordyce joins Crouch, Chris Stark and Steve Sidwell for the week's most-watched new upload, which has reached about 30,000 views. Managerial "philosophy" and ownership consortiums also come under examination, before footage of stewards sprinting through warm-ups prompts a discussion about whether they could actually catch a pitch invader. In the comments, viewers ask for Fordyce to become a regular presence, with one framing his conversational contributions as a footballer's passing game.

There is proper football beneath the terminology audit: Arsenal's defending at Anfield, Manchester United's problems and the possibility of Brighton mounting a Leicester-style title challenge. Sidwell then contributes his own wonderfully economical tactical description: "hockey stick, bang." The episode includes a sponsored predictions segment.

Five uploads arrived altogether, with that Sidwell phrase and the Brighton debate getting short clips of their own. The seagull-costume clip "He didn't even bow his beak… 🐦😔" currently has the most daily viewing momentum; the Fordyce episode remains active too, followed by the previous Ballon d'Or conversation.

The subscriber count held steady, while daily views are running below their usual level. This was a modest viewing week beside nearby football channels, with The Good, The Bad & The Football and Fubo each adding more than a million views. For Crouch's audience, the distinctive attraction was Fordyce helping turn a terminology complaint into a whole episode's worth of tangents.

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The videos drawing views on That Peter Crouch Podcast right now

He didn’t even bow his beak… 🐦😔4,976 views · 2026-11-09 Digital cards? Surely the game has well and truely gone. 🟨🚫4,873 views · 2026-11-04 Dare we say it… could Brighton & Hove Albion actually WIN the Premier…2,530 views · 2026-11-05 Hockey stick, bang. 🏒💥😭1,951 views · 2026-11-07 That Ballon d'Or Episode: Harry Kane for a knighthood, is Carrick in …55,300 views

The numbers

Here is how the channel's week looked in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

The Good, The Bad & The F…

1,376,086

Fubo

1,059,351

CBS Sports Golazo - Europe

630,848

Premier Sports

602,981

Open Goal

415,152

Virgin Media Sport

235,379

The Football Terrace Xtra

212,511

That Peter Crouch Podcast

87,623

Adam McKola

84,493

subscribers

172,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

41,693,873

views per day

5,727

typical day: 15,294

first-day views of each video posted this week

Tom Fordyce: Successful Launches, Strea…

15,879

He didn’t even bow his beak… 🐦😔

4,158

Digital cards? Surely the game has well…

2,722

Dare we say it… could Brighton & Hove A…

1,667

Hockey stick, bang. 🏒💥😭

1,385

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Premier Sports

206,000

Virgin Media Sport

200,000

The Good, The Bad & The F…

190,000

That Peter Crouch Podcast

172,000

Fubo

165,000

Open Goal

163,000

Adam McKola

150,000

CBS Sports Golazo - Europe

142,000

The Football Terrace Xtra

138,000

As of November 11, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.