Peter Crouch opens up on ‘horrible’ interrogation he experienced at Tottenham

Peter Crouch has admitted that the dressing room locker talk during his time in the youth ranks at Tottenham was often quite grim and that the players would be interrogated on their sex life.

Football dressing rooms have certainly changed over the last three decades, much like the rest of society, with more clear boundaries being set on what is considered banter.

The changing room atmospheres have taken a while to evolve and Crouch has admitted that there used to be quite crass and personal conversations about sex when he was coming through the youth ranks.

Peter Crouch recalls humiliating story from Tottenham youth

The 43-year-old recalled that he would find it quite demeaning and humiliating when asked to describe his love life in detail in front of the senior players in the squad.

The striker insisted that it is not the sort of atmosphere that young kids should be exposed to during their formative years.

The former Spurs man said on That Peter Crouch Podcast: “I remember being in the Tottenham dressing room, going in to pick up my boots and they were like ‘Crouchy, what is your love life like?’

“And you’d have to stand there in front of like 20 first-team players and go ‘well, nothing’ and they’d go ‘are you a virgin?’ and you’d go ‘yeah at the moment’.

“They’d go ‘do you have a girlfriend, have you kissed one yet?’ and you’re standing there as they’re all absolutely buzzing off you as you tell them what you’ve achieved with the opposite sex. There’s nothing worse – horrible, horrible, horrible.

“It was horrible to be a part of. They would say things like ‘well how would you kiss a girl’ and you’d have to practise it on something. You know the back one, you’d have to show your technique. It’s not right. I hope it’s out of the game now, it wasn’t nice for a young lad to be in that environment.”

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Across various sports, a lot of crass topics used to be brushed aside as ‘locker room talk’ but that is certainly changing over recent years, with there being a lot more awareness among the younger generation these days about not saying abusive or offensive things.

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