Darren Bent
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378 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard 4 Jul
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I think that's been the beauty and what's helped me retire is that I'm still part of it.
I still get to talk about it, go and watch games, still speak to some of the guys who are playing.
And that kind of softens the blow a little bit because I didn't want to get to a point where I finished and it's like, oh, what do you do next?
So I kind of fell into it.
And as I said, I'm really enjoying it.
No, to be fair.
I kind of, because I had a big injury at the end when I was at Derby.
So I started doing the media stuff then.
And obviously when I then announced that it was official that I was going to retire, I kind of just kept doing what I was doing and I've been getting more work.
And as I said, I've been really enjoying it.
And obviously you have to put the feelers out of what you're comfortable with, what you're not, because obviously certain things, it's a different kind of skill, I think, to be able to talk in front of camera and talk in front of people.
But as I said, I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, I mean, and it's crazy because there's some of the guys now who are coming towards the end, and when I played with them, I would have said, like, they hated speaking, as you said, hated speaking to the media, didn't like interviews, wouldn't do anything.
Just felt uncomfortable with it, which I can fully understand, but now they're getting to a point where all of a sudden they're doing, they're everywhere, and I'm thinking, you weren't doing that when you were playing, but obviously, again, it's finding something to do and then finding something you're comfortable with, and you're finding the guys that weren't comfortable when they were playing are the best at it, they're really good at it now, whereas the guys you would have said, oh, they're definitely going to get out to the media,
I haven't pursued it.
Well, it's funny because when you speak to people who are still in the game now, even if you've been close with them for a matter of years now, I mean, there's some that you can speak to and they can understand you and they trust you, but there's some that will look at you differently now because I never quite fully understood it.
When I was playing, when you're speaking to people, you're asking them, are you speaking to me from a friend perspective or are you trying to get an angle for something?
Do you know what I mean?
And I think now they look at me that same way and I think, well, no, I'm never going to obviously get you in trouble or stitch you up or anything.
And that's the thing I found quite hard is that fine line of trying to speak to them as if I was playing with them.
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