Chris Whittingham
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4,617 appearances
12 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 20 Jul
Chris Whittingham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't even think he came off the bench in the final.
And Chelsea decided, we don't really want him anymore.
We have all these new players.
We're going to go with them instead.
He goes to Milan and has been on a good run, but Milan are not a Scudetto contender as long as he's been there.
He's a good player in a good team, not a great player in a great team.
And I think we have sort of been in denial about this for a while and trying to hope that there was some other level that he would reach, but it just wasn't there.
And I think it leads to this sort of amount of, well, what have we been building up for the last 10 years?
Because it goes back all the way to...
When Grant Wall wrote a book about him when he was very young, wrote all the pieces saying that this is going to be the next guy, then all the commercials, all the interviews.
He is the one name that is associated with modern American soccer.
I don't think after this World Cup, too many people will be able to name a player beyond Christian Pulisic because he's just that guy who's in all the commercials.
He's in our face all the time, and there's this feeling that he didn't want this, and yet...
You're doing all of it.
You're doing all of the commercials and the interviews and the Time Magazine and the GQ thing and all this stuff where it's all about building up brand holistic.
Well, if you're going to do all that stuff, then at the end, you're going to face the music when you don't perform well.
And that's exactly what happened.
And Tom, can I just quibble with one thing you said just in terms of it's not a big deal that he doesn't want it and he's bad in interviews?
I'm sort of starting to not subscribe to that theory.
Not that we're important, but you kind of want someone who wants to be a star, right?
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