Peter Crouch for the Daily Mail's recent articles

PETER CROUCH COLUMN: Let this be a hard game: that was all I kept thinking on Tuesday evening before I sat down to watch Liverpool in the Champions League. I know how difficult it is to raise yourself after one of those huge European nights. So much emotion and effort goes into getting a good result that, come the next Saturday, there is a hangover. When I was at Liverpool, we had consecutive years (2007 and 2008) in Champions League semi-finals against Chelsea — we won only one of the four Premier League fixtures that followed. ...read

PETER CROUCH: It still hurts now. You’d think after nearly 20 years as a professional footballer that dealing with setbacks would get easier but it doesn’t. In all honesty, it never will. To give you an idea of how difficult the week has been since our 1-1 draw with West Ham, I want to go back to November 2007 when England played Croatia at Wembley — that’s the only other time in my career where I have experienced such wildly different emotions so close together. That night should have been one of the best moments of my career. As you’ll remember, we were losing 2-0 but fought back in the second half and I scored our equaliser.  ...read