Listen to Soccer A-Z: Comedian Josh Widdecombe jokes about the ‘difficulties’ of being a lifelong Plymouth fan
On this week’s Soccer A-Z, Tim Lovejoy and the gang were joined by comedian Josh Widdicombe to lament the dire state of football in the West Country and Tubes revealed what he and his partner get up to on their first date since becoming parents.
Widdicombe, best known for his appearances on the comedy show, The Last Leg, said he started supporting Plymouth Argyle because of his brother.
‘I was taken to Home Park when I was eight and it blew me away, which was mad when you think how bad the stadium was at the time’, Widdicombe said.
‘My half-brother lived in Cornwall and because Plymouth was in-between us, it meant we could go to games together.’
Relegation-threatened Plymouth are having a bizarre season losing nineteen games and languishing rock-bottom of the Championship table, while also taking the surprise scalp of probable Premier League winners Liverpool in the FA Cup.
Widdicombe told host Tim Lovejoy that Argyle’s season had been a ‘disaster’ and that the switch from sacked manager Wayne Rooney to Miron Muslic didn’t come soon enough to save them from relegation.
On this week’s Soccer A-Z, Tim Lovejoy and the gang were joined by comedian Josh Widdicombe to lament the dire state of football in the West Country. Listen now
Widdicombe told host Tim Lovejoy that Argyle’s season had been a ‘disaster’
‘It’s been a disaster from day one. Our budget is nowhere near good enough, so we’re always expecting to go down. It’s always going to be difficult.
‘The new manager has come in and done well but it’s too late. He plays a completely different style of football, and the squad was built by Rooney.’
Later in the show, after Widdicombe and the Soccer A-Z gang indulged in some nostalgia for nineties football, Tubes revealed how he and his partner spent their first date together since becoming parents.
‘Our first night away from our baby Molly and my partner tells me we’re going to a sound bath’, the presenter said.
‘A sound bath is when you turn up to a barn with like 10 other people and you all bring duvets and pillows and people start hitting gongs around you.
‘It was nice. I like that stuff. When I had my heart attack and I was doing rehab, I did meditation, and I loved it.’
‘There’s a whiff of hippie-dippie about that’, Joe ‘Sheephead’ Worsley joked.
You can catch the full episode of Soccer A-Z wherever you get your podcasts. Listen now to hear the gang wax lyrical about Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tim celebrate a surprise first show win.
