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Introducing... You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker

Kyle Walker takes you inside the dressing room to find out what it takes to be a winner

Each week ,Man City and England international, Kyle Walker and presenter Chris Hughes take you inside the dressing room to find out what it takes to win over and over again.

Each week, Man City and England international, Kyle Walker and presenter and Love Island star Chris Hughes take you inside the dressing room and onto the team bus to find out what it takes to win over and over again.

The pair will talk about the beautiful game, have a bit of a laugh, tell funny stories about football and dig into Kyle’s career as a serial champion. From his earliest days growing up in Sheffield, You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker will put the listener in the unique position of finding out what it takes to win seventeen major honours, including Premier Leagues, Champions Leagues, and FA Cups, as well as leading his country out at Wembley as captain of England. 

Kyle will reflect on his time in the game, the players he’s played with and against, the managers, and the highs and lows of football at the very top. He’ll talk World Cups and Euros, teammates past and present, and what it feels like to be one v one against Lionel Messi. 

You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker will give listeners a true insight into what it’s really like to be at the top of the game for so long. 

Kyle is taking over The Players Channel: Real football talk...straight from The Players! 

Previous titles include Footballer's Football Podcast featuring West Ham's Michail Antonio, Callum Wilson, Tom Cairney and Radio 1's Rickie Haywood-Williams as well as 'Football Firsts' with Jermain Defoe and Troy Deeney who discuss a range of topics revolving around the first time they experienced something in football. You can listen to all these episodes right now on this feed.

You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker: Defoe & Deeney Football Firsts: First Time Playing Abroad

Defoe & Deeney Football Firsts: First Time Playing Abroad

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Jermain and Troy discuss the first time they travelled abroad to play.

In the third episode of Football Firsts, Jermain and Troy discuss the first time they travelled abroad to play. They recall the best foreign stadiums and the worst trips they had.

In the third episode of Football Firsts, Jermain and Troy discuss the first time they travelled abroad to play. They recall the best foreign stadiums, the worst trips they had, and what they did to quell the boredom of long pre-season tours in random towns and cities around the world. 

Troy recalls how one manager he had tried to make him lose so much weight on a pre-season training camp that he cracked and ordered a staff member to go and buy him a crunchy nut and a bag of sweets, whilst Jermain muses on why, under Jacques Santini, he once played 13 pre-season games. They look back on the films they watched to kill time, laugh about how David Moyes ordered Jermain back onto a plane that had suffered an engine failure, and Troy is amazed to discover that the rapper Drake called Jermain when he joined Toronto FC. 

And the pair discuss the players they played with that they would take on a special pre-season tour.

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