Comedian Widdecombe jokes about ‘difficulties’ of being lifelong Plymouth fan

During this week's football, Tim Lovejoy and the gang were accompanied by comedian Josh Widdicombe to regret the terrible state of football in West Country and pipes, revealed what he and his partner have on their first date since they became parents.

Widdicombe, best known for his performances at the comedy show, The Last Leg, said he was starting to support Plymouth Argyle because of his brother.

“I was taken to Home Park when I was eight and it blew me away, which was crazy when you think how bad the stadium was at the time,” said Widdicombe.

“My half -brother lived in Cornwall and because Plymouth was between us, this meant that we could go to games together.”

Due to relegation during threatened Plymouth, a bizarre season that loses nineteen games and Rockbottom comes away from the championship table, while also taking the surprising scalp of the likely Premier League winners Liverpool in the FA Cup.

Widdicombe told host Tim LoveJoy that the season of Argyle had been a 'disaster' and that the switch from dismissed manager Wayne Rooney to Miron Muslic was not soon enough to save them from relegation.

'It has been a disaster from day one. Our budget is not long enough, so we always expect us to fall. It will always be difficult.

'The new manager arrived and well done, but it is too late. He plays a completely different style of football and the team was built by Rooney. '

Later in the show, after Widdicombe and the Football AZ Gang took over what nostalgia for the nineties football, tubes revealed how he and his partner spent their first date together since he became parents.

“Our first night away from our baby Molly and my partner tells me that we are going to a healthy bath,” said the presenter.

'A healthy bath is when you come to a shed with about 10 other people and you all bring duvets and pillows and people start to put gongs around you.

“It was fun. I love that stuff. When I got my heart attack and I did rehabilitation, I did meditation and I thought it was great. '

“There is a touch of hippie-dippie about that,” joe joked 'Sheephead' Worsley.

You can catch the full episode of Soccer AZ where you get your podcasts. Now listen to hear the gang wax lyrical about Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tim are celebrating a surprising first show win.

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