Peter Crouch tackled “tough” Wycombe away with his daughter in her first swimming competition at the town’s leisure centre.

The former Premier League and England footballer was speaking on his podcast, That Peter Crouch Podcast, about his trip to Wycombe Leisure Centre with his daughter’s swimming team.

He travelled to the leisure centre by the Handy Cross roundabout to cheer on his daughter as he joked it was a “tough place to go”.

Crouch said: "You go there and I’m invested because my daughter is involved. 

“It’s so competitive. It’s an arena, you're in a great leisure centre and in a stand.

"You’re cheering them on and you’re cheering for people’s kids who are part of your team because it gets the points higher.

“You don’t want to be in the relegation zone, fighting for your life. It’s really exciting”

Co-presenter, Chris Stark, asked him how it compared to playing in some of the biggest stadiums in the world.

Tongue in cheek, Crouch continued: “Wycombe is a tough place to go. A great swim squad, full of highly tuned athletes. We went there and we did get a result.

“Wycombe is hostile. Wycombe Leisure Centre was hostile. I noticed it was good facilities as well.”

The former footballer also revealed that he met Olympic gold-medallist Tom Deane but didn’t recognise the swimmer who is from Maidenhead.

He continued: “I’m quite new to this. I should know more about swimming. Now my daughter is really enjoying it and she is competing so I am trying to do my homework but I admit I didn’t recognise him.

“You can tell a swimmer a mile off. I knew he was swimmer but we were chatting away and he talked about the Olympics so I asked him how did you get on and he said 'oh yeah I won it twice'.  

“I was like sorry, that was poor from me. I’m just not across the swimming that much but I delved into his career and it's amazing.

 “I see him with my little girl now, she is up before school and it is hard work.

“He is training three times a day in quite a solitary environment. We talk on this podcast about mentality. That is mentality to achieve an Olympic gold medal in a sport that takes serious dedication.”