‘I was being bullied – on a global scale!’ Peter Crouch on mockery, marriage and having the last laugh

‘Why would anyone want to make a film about me?’ … Crouch. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Peter Crouch is listing the sporting legends you might expect to have a film made about them. “Alex Ferguson, Usain Bolt, Steven Gerrard, that kind of thing,” he says. “It did make me think: why would anyone want to make a film about me?”

And why did they, I ask.