0:00:08 > 0:00:10Hello again, glad you have tuned in.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13You've obviously heard there is a football match on tonight,
0:00:13 > 0:00:16England against Germany, the second semifinal of Euro 96,
0:00:16 > 0:00:17sporting history waiting to be made.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27In everyone's life, there are moments when you look back
0:00:27 > 0:00:29and think, "What if?"
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Memories that keep you awake at night,
0:00:33 > 0:00:37replaying them over and over again.
0:00:37 > 0:00:4020 years ago, for one unforgettable summer,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43we shared so many of those moments together.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47Shearer loses his man... Gascoigne!
0:00:47 > 0:00:49What if?
0:00:49 > 0:00:50I don't believe it!
0:00:53 > 0:00:56This is unbelievable stuff.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07It's not a bad place it looks as if he's got here.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10He must have assembled a decent team in Euro 96.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Think that's where he made all his money,
0:01:14 > 0:01:18off the back of us players, actually.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23- There is the man there. Look, there he is.- Hey!
0:01:23 > 0:01:25- Hey!- How are you doing?
0:01:25 > 0:01:27You haven't got a bad place here, have you?
0:01:27 > 0:01:29It's not bad, it's all right.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31You must have done something right in your life!
0:01:31 > 0:01:33- I don't know about that! Great to see you.- Thank you.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35- Thanks for having us. - Great that you've come.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37- Want to show us around?- Of course.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40- So, how long have you been here?- 18 years.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44- Opened a year, actually open. - How did you find this spot, then?
0:01:44 > 0:01:48It was because we were looking for something else and bumped into this.
0:01:48 > 0:01:49La Escondida.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51La Escondida.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53- What does that mean?- Hideaway.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57- Retreat, is it, or something like that?- Retreat, you've got it.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59- Keeps you going and out of trouble.- Absolutely.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Hopefully! This is the reception
0:02:01 > 0:02:03where everyone comes in and gets checked in
0:02:03 > 0:02:04with their passports...
0:02:04 > 0:02:07And a lovely glass of champagne on arrival.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Glass of champagne on arrival.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14We go through here, the chefs there, four chefs.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Good afternoon.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21- OK.- Wow!
0:02:21 > 0:02:24- So...- Where did it all go wrong? THEY LAUGH
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Yeah. It's a lovely view.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Let's have a little wander around.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34In fact, I don't now where I am. I've only just got up!
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Euro 96 will be a landmark event in our sporting history,
0:02:37 > 0:02:41just as the World Cup finals were 30 years ago.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Let's go, then. I'm going to take some money off you.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Now, Group C.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50England.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52CHEERING
0:02:55 > 0:02:58So, you were at West Ham with Sam and then Stevenage,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00whatever happened, happened.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Are you looking to get back into football?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Well, if you'd have asked me four or five days after getting the sack,
0:03:05 > 0:03:06I'd have gone, "Sod that!"
0:03:06 > 0:03:08- What a game that is! - Did you always think
0:03:08 > 0:03:10you were going to go into management?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12I always thought you were happier on the golf course.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I feel like I'm a football man.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19That's all I ever wanted to do when I was a kid, growing up.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20I felt it was the right time.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23You played under some decent managers - Clough, Venables, Fergie.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- Yeah.- What did you take off those guys?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Obviously not enough.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Look at the old fella, straight up the middle.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36It's ugly, but I'll take it.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39With the start of the European Championship only 16 days away,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41team spirit and match fitness for some of his players
0:03:41 > 0:03:44is what he wants from this two-game tour to the Far East.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47- Hello!- You all right? Nice to see you.- How are you?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50- You all right?- I'm very well, thanks.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Thanks very much for doing this. - It's a pleasure.
0:03:52 > 0:03:53We don't remember anything.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- I don't either, it's fine. - It was a very long time ago.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58We have even got the old sofa for you, boys.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01- Did you recognise it?- Just like the old days.- Shall we sit on it?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04- You can sit on it. - You sit here, don't you?
0:04:04 > 0:04:08APPLAUSE
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Hello and welcome to European Fantasy Football League.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13What are you guys up to now?
0:04:13 > 0:04:16I mainly beg on the street.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Lots of stuff.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21We do... He lives in my road, by the way.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- I think people think... - Oh, right, still.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Because we don't do a show together.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Now that we have families,
0:04:27 > 0:04:29we thought we shouldn't be in the same house,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31otherwise it becomes a commune.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33In the Czech Republic game last Sunday,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35John Motson was particularly critical
0:04:35 > 0:04:38of the two strikers substituted by Germany.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42So, Bierhoff's got a short time to press his claims
0:04:42 > 0:04:44now that the two other strikers
0:04:44 > 0:04:47who started the match have both been taken off.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49Kuntz.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51LAUGHTER
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Fantasy Football, how did that come about?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Whose idea was that? Because we've got the sofa there, as well,
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- the same sofa.- We are sitting in the right order,
0:04:58 > 0:05:00this is how we always sat.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02The sofa has aged better than the three of us, hasn't it?
0:05:02 > 0:05:06Yeah, it certainly has, yeah. It has, it hasn't gained a pound.
0:05:06 > 0:05:11We got phoned up by the bloke who brought the actual game to Britain,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13and he said, "Could this be on the telly?"
0:05:13 > 0:05:15and we talked about it and thought, "Well, it could,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18"as long as basically it's a comedy show about football."
0:05:18 > 0:05:20We said, "Why don't we just make it a representation
0:05:20 > 0:05:21"of our own home life,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24"where we sit on the sofa, we watch football with beers..."
0:05:24 > 0:05:27He is an ex-alcoholic, so he wasn't actually drinking any beer.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30- You're never an ex-alcoholic. - Sorry. But...
0:05:30 > 0:05:31I would drink beer,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34and then people would come round and watch football with us.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39I think, in the '90s, we were seen as being at the centre
0:05:39 > 0:05:42of a thing called the new lads culture.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46People get nostalgic about Euro 96, but not new lads.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Now, it's really disgraced,
0:05:49 > 0:05:51just because the magazines had pictures
0:05:51 > 0:05:53of Liz Hurley in her underwear.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Two of Britain's most popular pop groups
0:05:55 > 0:05:59have begun the biggest chart war in 30 years.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03# I'm a firestarter Twisted firestarter... #
0:06:03 > 0:06:08Pop group Take That have confirmed they are to split up.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Damien Hirst has won this year's Turner Prize.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14# You'll never live like common people... #
0:06:14 > 0:06:18# Don't look back in anger I heard you say... #
0:06:18 > 0:06:21England have named their squad for the European Championship finals,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24which kick off at Wembley in 12 days' time.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Would Fantasy Football work now?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29I think the show could exist. I mean, you know, the show...
0:06:29 > 0:06:34Could you get away now with what you did then?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Not Jason Lee, obviously... - Well, one thing about...
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Yeah, there were some things.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42There was a player who played for Notts Forest called Jason Lee.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Jason Lee was missing goals consistently
0:06:44 > 0:06:47and we featured all his misses in, like, montages and stuff.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49All his misses!
0:06:49 > 0:06:51- They make me sick! - Yeah, they make me sick...
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Pineapple head? Was it the pineapple head?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56We wouldn't be able to get away with that,
0:06:56 > 0:06:58and maybe that's a good thing.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00But basically what we did do is we said on telly
0:07:00 > 0:07:05what people said on the terraces and stuff all the time.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07- How are you? Nice to see you. - Nice dulcet tones!
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Exactly. Yeah, good.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Good, nice to see you.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16- Good.- 'So what's life like now, then, as a hotel owner?
0:07:16 > 0:07:18'Stressful? What is it?'
0:07:18 > 0:07:22It's stressful, inasmuch as it is hard work.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24It can't be that hard work, you look unbelievable!
0:07:24 > 0:07:26For your age. You're doing something right.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Steady! Steady!
0:07:29 > 0:07:30What would you be doing
0:07:30 > 0:07:32if you weren't going to be playing football all your life?
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Oh, I have no idea. It's all I can do!
0:07:35 > 0:07:37- Do you miss football? - Yeah, of course.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39How can you not? I mean, it's...
0:07:39 > 0:07:42my life, it's always been my life,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44and always will be until there is no...
0:07:44 > 0:07:48Now, inside, inside, inside! You're still in contact!
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Imagine if we'd have won that tournament.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53- It would have been SIR Terry Venables.- Oh, God.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Do you look back at the tournament and think,
0:07:55 > 0:07:58"It is a tournament we should have won"?
0:07:58 > 0:08:00'Well, I just don't know how we didn't win it.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04'What we went through was something I've never experienced.'
0:08:04 > 0:08:06One of the best times of your life?
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Oh, without a doubt. I think the best.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- THE best?- Yeah, I would say so.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Even after what you've achieved
0:08:12 > 0:08:16- with Barcelona and Tottenham and everywhere you've been?- Well, yeah.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18It was a good career, going from Crystal Palace,
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Queens Park Rangers and getting higher and better.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I thought someone was having a joke,
0:08:24 > 0:08:28you know? That Barcelona were very interested.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30But then when you get to England,
0:08:30 > 0:08:32it is always to do with your parents
0:08:32 > 0:08:37- and your grandparents and a special feeling.- Proud moments, then?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I think proud moments is right, yes.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45In '96, I was in the form of my life for Blackburn.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47I'd won the league the season before,
0:08:47 > 0:08:49but I hadn't scored for England for nearly two years.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52On top of that, Terry Venables had been forced to announce
0:08:52 > 0:08:54he would step down after Euro 96.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58We were all feeling the pressure of the competition on home soil.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Within the last few minutes, police have confirmed
0:09:01 > 0:09:04that they are investigating allegations of damage to the plane
0:09:04 > 0:09:06that carried the England players back from Hong Kong.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09The police, the Football Association and the airline
0:09:09 > 0:09:10are all investigating the incident,
0:09:10 > 0:09:12which has prompted calls from some MPs
0:09:12 > 0:09:14to exclude any players involved from the team.
0:09:14 > 0:09:20Take you back to our little infamous trip to China and Hong Kong.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25- Yeah.- Did you feel that the players let you down because of that episode
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- in that particular nightclub? - No, no...
0:09:28 > 0:09:29Cos you'd given us a curfew.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31There were seven or eight players pictured...
0:09:31 > 0:09:34There were seven or eight who stayed back in the hotel.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37It was probably four or five that were out, who weren't pictured also.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39I was one of those guys.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Did you ever feel that we'd let you down by actually going out?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44No, those were the things that make the difference,
0:09:44 > 0:09:48because you think you are in trouble and, all of a sudden,
0:09:48 > 0:09:50you've actually said, "No,
0:09:50 > 0:09:55"my job here and your job with me is to win the game.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58"However we win it, we win it."
0:09:58 > 0:10:01So you used the negative press to your advantage?
0:10:01 > 0:10:06Yeah, even some of the FA people were very unhappy with me.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10And I'm saying, "Well, fine, we'll talk about it later."
0:10:10 > 0:10:13The England squad has accepted collective responsibility
0:10:13 > 0:10:14for what happened.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18Did you feel we let him down in what we did in Hong Kong,
0:10:18 > 0:10:20or what you did? You were the ringleader!
0:10:20 > 0:10:21I wasn't, I wasn't.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23You were the one with your top off in the dentist's chair.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26I'm always there, but I'm never the ringleader.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30The guy who said he had his top off in the chair and everything, yeah.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33I was exactly the same at school, I was easily led, you know?
0:10:33 > 0:10:36And I just... I'm still the same, even now.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40The thing was they had permission to go out drinking and that is a fact.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43There were some supporters there, taking some photos, going,
0:10:43 > 0:10:45"Oh, there's the boys," you know?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48And then there was the problem that sort of sparked it off.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Well, that's life.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51It was a great night.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53You know all the ripped shirts?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55I don't think it ever got out how that came about.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59I remember Bryan Robson coming over to us and went, "Be careful, lads."
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Someone came out from behind whoever he was talking to
0:11:02 > 0:11:03and went, "Shut up, Robbo!"
0:11:03 > 0:11:06and pulled the top down and ripped his top like that.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09And he sort of looked and went, "Oh..."
0:11:09 > 0:11:11- And he was the coach. - And he was the coach.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13And then that escalated into a few others
0:11:13 > 0:11:15and then all hell broke loose
0:11:15 > 0:11:18and a couple more drinks and we looked a right shambles.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22And now you know why we never won the tournament!
0:11:33 > 0:11:37So, to the first match, England against Switzerland in Group A.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Wembley, packed to the rafters, the atmosphere electric,
0:11:40 > 0:11:42the commentary from Barry Davies.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44The long wait is over.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46This is for real.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Well, thanks very much, guys.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50You're both still commentating.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52How are you both, all well?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54I think so, yes. Voice is still fairly strong
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- and I think his is, too. - We survive. We always have.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01- Yeah.- The wider media wrote us off, I think.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03- Yes.- So what were your opinions,
0:12:03 > 0:12:06when you saw what happened, what went on?
0:12:06 > 0:12:08As you said, you got hammered in more ways than one.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10- Yeah.- But...
0:12:10 > 0:12:13How long did it take you to think that one up?!
0:12:13 > 0:12:17Not long. So it wasn't a favourable press,
0:12:17 > 0:12:19not when we went into the first game.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23- COMMENTARY:- A new generation think that it is all about to begin.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25And it is now.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38I wanted to take you to golf, you wanted to take me fishing,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41so we've come for a romantic stroll in the park.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43This is more your scene, isn't it? Cool and calm.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45You've never been into management.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47You're one of the few of the squad that didn't.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Just never fancied it.- Is that what has taken most of your time,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53the fishing or the golf or what?
0:12:53 > 0:12:54I love my fishing.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58You know, golf, I play off six, I play a bit of golf.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01We still ice skate.
0:13:01 > 0:13:02As you do.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Turkyilmaz in the six yard area.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07That is well claimed.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08We were all under pressure,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11and it wasn't the greatest performance, was it?
0:13:11 > 0:13:14No, it wasn't, and I do remember feeling the pressure a lot,
0:13:14 > 0:13:16because of the fact it is at Wembley
0:13:16 > 0:13:19and all the stuff that had gone in the press.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Oh, dear, here you go.
0:13:22 > 0:13:27Another wonderful morning at Escondida.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31I hadn't scored for almost two years, nearly 14 or 15 games.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33I remember!
0:13:33 > 0:13:36I remember it well as well!
0:13:38 > 0:13:41I was saying, "No, take it easy.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44"No, you've got to take it easy."
0:13:44 > 0:13:47"For God's sake, hurry up and score!"
0:13:47 > 0:13:50What you said to me was, "Whatever happens,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53"in between now and Euro 96 starting,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56"Alan, you will be my number nine,
0:13:56 > 0:13:57"you will start that first game."
0:13:57 > 0:13:58And I stood back from that
0:13:58 > 0:14:01and I thought, "Wow, for him to tell me that,
0:14:01 > 0:14:02"he doesn't half think a lot of me."
0:14:02 > 0:14:06It wasn't really a difficult decision for me.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09You're no good putting worry on to worry,
0:14:09 > 0:14:11because that is not going to help.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14We all know what happened from then on.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Gascoigne.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Shearer. Ince.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19Anderton right side.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21McManaman left side.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Shearer clear... Scores!
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Well, wouldn't you know it?
0:14:29 > 0:14:34When it mattered, he knew where the goal was.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38How did it... I know how I felt when I scored, how did you feel?
0:14:38 > 0:14:40"You beauty!"
0:14:42 > 0:14:47They are holding up the lights on the board and it's Paul Gascoigne.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51You are hoping to play well, just to shut everybody up.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53And we didn't play that well, did we?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56No, I know. That was another penalty as well.
0:14:56 > 0:15:01Grassi... Blocked by the hands of Pearce and that is a penalty.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07It's going to be down to David Seaman to save the day.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Turkyilmaz to take.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13And it is 1-1.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Rolled it in.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19'That really didn't calm everyone down.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23'But everybody made comparisons with 30 years before.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26- Yeah. Uruguay.- And I tell you what...
0:15:26 > 0:15:29England/Switzerland was a great deal better than England/Uruguay,
0:15:29 > 0:15:32which was a terrible game!
0:15:32 > 0:15:36- COMMENTARY:- And the European Championship opens with a draw.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38We've got to get three points against Scotland
0:15:38 > 0:15:40and try and get something against Holland as well,
0:15:40 > 0:15:41to be sure of getting through.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44It'll be tough. We're going to have to play better than that.
0:15:44 > 0:15:45A little bit disappointed,
0:15:45 > 0:15:47but we're looking forward to the Scotland game.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49We've got a week to prepare for it.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51But don't write us off.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54I just don't know whether we expect too much
0:15:54 > 0:15:59from the manager and the quality of players that we have.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Don't fans have a right to expect
0:16:01 > 0:16:04England to beat Switzerland at Wembley?
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Inventive, creative on the ball, he's England's best player.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09In open play, if anybody's going to make it happen,
0:16:09 > 0:16:10it's going to be Paul Gascoigne.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12But, after 50 minutes,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15he disappeared and England as an attacking force disappeared as well.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25We're on our way to see Gazza.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29He is doing a Q&A in Newcastle.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33He does 20 or 30 a year now, which is great for him.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35He's got to have an income.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39People, I think, have badly advised him, took advantage of him,
0:16:39 > 0:16:43because he is such a genuine and open and honest guy.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46His dream was to be a footballer.
0:16:46 > 0:16:53It was like mine. He was fortunate enough to make it as a footballer
0:16:53 > 0:16:55because of his talent.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57He left here, the north-east, and went down to London,
0:16:57 > 0:16:59which many say was the downfall of him.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01If he had gone to Manchester with Fergie,
0:17:01 > 0:17:03then that might have been slightly different.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05I probably agree with that.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10I know he's had a bit of a tough time over the last few years.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14When you look at some people, you hope the penny might drop.
0:17:14 > 0:17:20And I hope daily and I pray daily that I don't wake up
0:17:20 > 0:17:22and hear that the worst has happened to Gazza
0:17:22 > 0:17:25because the world would be a sadder place without him.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Do you miss football?
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- Because you loved it, didn't you? - Aye, definitely.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37I really miss it badly, even today, you know?
0:17:37 > 0:17:38I still wish I was playing.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40I find it hard sometimes to watch games.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42You're looking good.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Yeah, I'm not too bad. It's took us 20 years, like, but...
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Is that all?
0:17:47 > 0:17:49What's your memories of Hong Kong?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51- I don't know.- Just before '96?
0:17:51 > 0:17:52I can't remember.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56All I know is I went on some chair for a filling,
0:17:56 > 0:17:58- my tooth was slack at the back. - The dentist's chair.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Yeah. The dentist's chair, obviously...
0:18:00 > 0:18:03It was my birthday as well, I know that, so...
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Talk about celebrating your birthday!
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Terry Venables, happy to face autograph hunters -
0:18:08 > 0:18:12a welcome change from fending off a week of constant questions
0:18:12 > 0:18:15yet again on fitness, nightclubs and alcohol.
0:18:15 > 0:18:16The public pick up the paper,
0:18:16 > 0:18:19and they are going to believe all they're reading,
0:18:19 > 0:18:23and we're made out to have had a three-week party here.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32A few beers, a good weekend, can't beat it.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34I think the Scots felt this was their great chance.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37They thought they could come to Wembley and really put up a show.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39Paul Gascoigne is the talk of the town.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41What will you be saying to him before this match?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Well, I've already spoken to him.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46I just want him to relax and get his head around the game.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48I mean, he's been doing that all week.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51You've always had a special bond with him, haven't you?
0:18:51 > 0:18:56Yeah, he's just beyond anything you would expect from his football,
0:18:56 > 0:19:00from his cheek, from his audacity, from anything he could do.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01I mean, he was a brilliant player.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03That night, before the game against Scotland,
0:19:03 > 0:19:05I couldn't sleep and I knocked on his door
0:19:05 > 0:19:08and he went, "What do you want?" I went, "I'm worried."
0:19:08 > 0:19:10And he went, "Sit down." And I went, "Yeah..."
0:19:10 > 0:19:11He said, "What are you worried about?"
0:19:11 > 0:19:14"I don't know if you're going to pick us tomorrow." "I'm not."
0:19:14 > 0:19:16So I've got tears in my eyes, right?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18I'm saying, "Please! I promise, I promise, I'll play well."
0:19:18 > 0:19:20And he let this go for about 45 minutes,
0:19:20 > 0:19:22and it's about a quarter past 11 and he went,
0:19:22 > 0:19:24"Of course you're playing, now get to bed and sleep."
0:19:24 > 0:19:26I think it's a chance for this English team
0:19:26 > 0:19:29to show the nation that last Saturday was a one-off.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31England have had their problems.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Have they got together as a group
0:19:32 > 0:19:34and said, "Right, they have slated us, lads,
0:19:34 > 0:19:35"let's go out and show them"?
0:19:35 > 0:19:38We'd not played Scotland for ages, you know,
0:19:38 > 0:19:40so there was that pressure.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Then there's the pressure that we actually needed to win.
0:19:42 > 0:19:47Months of anticipation, building up to this moment
0:19:47 > 0:19:50as Scotland in blue start the match.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Shouldn't be far away.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59- Shearer is going one-up here. - Cheeky!
0:19:59 > 0:20:02It was a good game for us to play in the second game,
0:20:02 > 0:20:05cos it made us get up for it.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07- Teddy is nervous! - I heard the footsteps, didn't I?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10- Yeah, love it.- Thought someone was going to come and jump on me.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13Still don't think we played great again, though.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Shearer, one-up.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16Oh, it's like that, is it?
0:20:18 > 0:20:20It would have to be a fight.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Second-half was an excellent game against Scotland.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29There was a point during the Scotland game
0:20:29 > 0:20:31where I did think, "This is...
0:20:31 > 0:20:32"Surely we can beat Scotland?"
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Now McManaman, a bit of variety here by England.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Gascoigne in the penalty area.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40This is Neville.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Oh, and there's Alan Shearer!
0:20:42 > 0:20:45THEY CHEER
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Alan Shearer scores for England!
0:20:47 > 0:20:50His second goal of the tournament
0:20:50 > 0:20:53and England are in front.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Shearer! Shearer!
0:20:55 > 0:21:00We were winning 1-0 and then Tony Adams gives a penalty away.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01The cross finds Durie.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05Penalty! Penalty to Scotland.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Come on, was it you that saved the penalty
0:21:08 > 0:21:11or was it Uri Geller moving the ball and everything else?
0:21:11 > 0:21:12I'm sure Uri takes all the credit!
0:21:12 > 0:21:17He repeated that bit of absolute nonsense on Fantasy Football.
0:21:17 > 0:21:18Anyway, the McAlister penalty...
0:21:18 > 0:21:21That was mind power of millions of English people,
0:21:21 > 0:21:23wanting it to distract.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25He was in a helicopter off the ground
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- or something.- Is that what he said?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Yeah, he was making the ball move for England.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31You don't think it might just be
0:21:31 > 0:21:33that Gary McAllister took a shit penalty?
0:21:33 > 0:21:38As he ran up to the ball, I did see the ball just start rotating.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39- Did you actually see it move?- Yeah.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43But then he must have seen it because he actually pinged it.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Oh, saved by Seaman!
0:21:47 > 0:21:51THEY CHEER
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Off we went down the wing, and then I remember, what,
0:21:53 > 0:21:57about a minute later, Gazza scoring an unbelievable goal.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59What do you think about Gazza's goal?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Oh, it was a good one. - A special one?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Yeah. Thanks for stealing all my glory, though! God!
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Here's Gascoigne! Oh, brilliant!
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Oh, yes! Oh, yes!
0:22:16 > 0:22:19What a wonderful goal by Gascoigne!
0:22:21 > 0:22:24What a pertinent answer to all his critics.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27We loved all of you, but I think, with Gazza,
0:22:27 > 0:22:29we really felt like we'd got someone.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32And I remember I was saying, "Whoever scores, lads,
0:22:32 > 0:22:34"do the dentist's chair."
0:22:34 > 0:22:36And, you know, being an alcoholic, it had to be me.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38And is that your favourite goal?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Yeah, because we were at home at Euro 96,
0:22:41 > 0:22:43we'd got loads of stick from the press
0:22:43 > 0:22:44so that shut them up a little bit.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46But it was such a brilliant goal, I must admit.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Now, of course, the press turned. It was all about Gazza.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Sure. It set the tournament up from an England point of view, clearly.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56- COMMENTARY:- This is the moment they will talk about,
0:22:56 > 0:22:59when Gascoigne jinked through as of old
0:22:59 > 0:23:03and stamped his indelible mark on Euro 96.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09The DJ put the song on at the end and, suddenly...
0:23:09 > 0:23:13And we didn't know that everyone knew it, everyone starts singing it.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17And, honestly, it is an unbelievable, unbelievable thing.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21- CROWD SINGS:- # It's coming Football's coming home
0:23:21 > 0:23:25# It's coming home It's coming home
0:23:25 > 0:23:29# It's coming Football's coming home... #
0:23:29 > 0:23:34# Everyone seems to know the score
0:23:34 > 0:23:38# They've seen it all before
0:23:38 > 0:23:41# They just know They're so sure... #
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Whose idea was it?
0:23:44 > 0:23:45- What, the song?- Who wrote the song?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48The song music was written by Ian Brodie,
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Ian Brodie of the Lightning Seeds.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53He just felt that we represented football fans
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- and so asked us to write the lyrics. - The weird thing was,
0:23:56 > 0:23:59he was famous for writing bittersweet love songs and he said,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01"I don't think I could write a football song,"
0:24:01 > 0:24:03so we came in and we wrote a bittersweet love song
0:24:03 > 0:24:04about the England team.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Yeah, the lyrics were that thing of, like,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09trying to chime with the real experience
0:24:09 > 0:24:10of an England football fan,
0:24:10 > 0:24:13which is not that we are going to win,
0:24:13 > 0:24:16but nor that we think we are going to lose, it's somewhere in between.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18It's hope over experience.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20It's like, "We're probably going to lose, but you never know,
0:24:20 > 0:24:22"you never know!" And that, I think,
0:24:22 > 0:24:25is what made it something that people have remembered
0:24:25 > 0:24:27and that people sung at the time.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30It was always playing on the bus, wasn't it, on the way to the games.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33It's definitely the best football song, isn't it?
0:24:33 > 0:24:36You're right, it got the nation together, didn't it?
0:24:36 > 0:24:41When we took Three Lions to the England training camp and played it,
0:24:41 > 0:24:42we said, "Oh, is there any players
0:24:42 > 0:24:44"who'd like to come and be in the video?"
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Now, to be in a pop video, you'd think that would be...
0:24:47 > 0:24:48I remember you said,
0:24:48 > 0:24:50"Oh, can't we just sign some footballs instead?"
0:24:50 > 0:24:53But, yeah...
0:24:53 > 0:24:55I was dull and I was boring!
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Yeah. I actually watched it this morning
0:24:57 > 0:25:00and I was thinking to myself, "How come I'm not in that video?"
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Cos you were signing footballs, Alan.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Didn't have any footballs to sign.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06- Yeah, we got Steve Stone instead. - Steve Stone!
0:25:06 > 0:25:10You've been trying to look like him ever since.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14# Jules Rimet still gleaming... #
0:25:14 > 0:25:17I did the one... You know when Bobby Charlton feinted to go one way,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20pushed it the other way and hit it in the top corner?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22I did it the first take. I drilled it in the top corner
0:25:22 > 0:25:25and was like, "That will do then! That's a take."
0:25:27 > 0:25:30I must point out that we did actually come down
0:25:30 > 0:25:34to Burnham Beeches with the song and play it to you lot
0:25:34 > 0:25:36and I don't remember such a great reaction.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Terry Venables listened to it tapping his car keys like that
0:25:39 > 0:25:42and then he said, "It's a real key tapper, isn't it?"
0:25:42 > 0:25:45I said, "I don't think that's a phrase, is it? A key tapper?"
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Yeah!
0:25:52 > 0:25:56Well, as we're stood probably half a mile away from Old Trafford,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58good memories for you?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Oh, yeah, played with so many great players in that great stadium.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04When I look at it, it brings back great memories.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Can you imagine how many more trophies you would have won
0:26:07 > 0:26:09- if I'd have joined? - I'm a bit disappointed.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13Can you imagine how many trophies YOU would've won?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15I know, exactly.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17What about your relationship with Gazza?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Both on the pitch and off the pitch,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22you got on very well with him, didn't you?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Yeah, we were very, very close.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27You know, he used to come to my room all the time.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30I'm only laughing cos you probably know a lot about it.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34- He was always in my room.- Elaborate. What was going on in your room?
0:26:34 > 0:26:35Well... It was...
0:26:35 > 0:26:41It was like a pub, to be fair. It was like a pub.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44They used to come in there and play games and have a few beers.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47It was a bit of fun and it took the pressure away
0:26:47 > 0:26:50from thinking about the next game.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52I enjoyed it and I know the lads did.
0:26:54 > 0:26:59Am I allowed to swear on this BLEEP camera?
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Three off the tee.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02When I spoke to Incey,
0:27:02 > 0:27:07he said his room was sometimes classed as a bar, as a pub.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09I can't quite remember that, to be honest.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11- Can you?- Not really.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15- During the competition? - Yeah, during the competition.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18He said we used to have a couple of beers in his room,
0:27:18 > 0:27:20or him and Gazza did anyway.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Well... You'd expect Gazza to have a couple of beers of some sort.
0:27:23 > 0:27:28I thought we'd kind of made a little pact between the lot of us
0:27:28 > 0:27:29that we'd stay off the drink
0:27:29 > 0:27:32and make a real commitment to what we were trying to do.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33What's it like in those trees?
0:27:33 > 0:27:36I'm not in them yet!
0:27:39 > 0:27:43I think we'll call that a lost ball, shall we?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45It was important to have a laugh though, wasn't it,
0:27:45 > 0:27:46have a bit of downtime.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Yeah, but then we always had that with the characters
0:27:49 > 0:27:50that we had in the squad, didn't we?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53We've got snooker tables, table tennis, a games room,
0:27:53 > 0:27:55a certain Mr Gascoigne keeps us entertained as well
0:27:55 > 0:27:57so we're all right.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00What would he be doing? Can you share a few secrets with us?
0:28:00 > 0:28:01I think he's down the pub
0:28:01 > 0:28:04having a couple of pints with the rest of the lads!
0:28:05 > 0:28:07No cameras, though.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Gazza being Gazza would be like flying around the hotel
0:28:10 > 0:28:13and Terry would be like, "David, take him fishing, calm him down,
0:28:13 > 0:28:17"he's getting hyper." We'd get in my car and we got to the off-licence
0:28:17 > 0:28:20and get a couple of beers. Gazza got in the car and opened his beer,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22popped a tablet and had a swig.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24I was like, "What was that?"
0:28:24 > 0:28:25He was like, "It's a sleeper."
0:28:25 > 0:28:27"What you taking that for?"
0:28:27 > 0:28:29He said, "I want to fight the tablet."
0:28:29 > 0:28:32I was like, "What?!"
0:28:32 > 0:28:35We went onto the lake and we were trout fishing
0:28:35 > 0:28:38and he saw this fish rising
0:28:38 > 0:28:42and he's just gone straight off the jetty into the lake,
0:28:42 > 0:28:43in his full England trackie.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45He's like, "Help me, help me!"
0:28:45 > 0:28:46"Get closer, I'll get you."
0:28:46 > 0:28:47Pulls him out and said,
0:28:47 > 0:28:50"I'm going fishing, I'll leave you to it."
0:28:50 > 0:28:52The next thing, I looked back two minutes later
0:28:52 > 0:28:53and he was fast asleep.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56- Well, the sleeper worked. - Yeah, the sleeper won.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Look at that! Crazy golf, isn't it, we're playing here?
0:29:03 > 0:29:07I can't remember having a drink during the competition.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09- Yeah.- It was only when we got knocked out
0:29:09 > 0:29:13and then we all went back to the bar and we were all very, very deflated.
0:29:13 > 0:29:18We just had a solemn drink between us, the whole group.
0:29:18 > 0:29:19That is all I can remember.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22I can only remember having that drink during the tournament.
0:29:22 > 0:29:23With the characters we had,
0:29:23 > 0:29:25I'm pretty sure we must've had one or two but not a lot.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28- Not during the tournament. - But it is 20 years ago, right?
0:29:28 > 0:29:31I mean, we're not talking about last week, are we?
0:29:31 > 0:29:33Absolutely, yeah. And we're getting on.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36# That's life
0:29:36 > 0:29:40# That's what all the people say
0:29:40 > 0:29:43# Da-da-dee-dee-dee-dee... #
0:29:43 > 0:29:45After that Scotland game, was that the first time
0:29:45 > 0:29:48you were able to go back to the hotel and start thinking,
0:29:48 > 0:29:51"You know what, I really believe we can win this tournament?"
0:29:51 > 0:29:54- Yeah, I did.- Did you?- I felt it all the way through.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Tell me about your relationship with Terry Venables.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Was it him that you signed for at Spurs?
0:30:00 > 0:30:02He said, "If you sign for me,
0:30:02 > 0:30:04"you're playing for England in ten games."
0:30:04 > 0:30:08He was right, you know? It was all the time he used to...
0:30:08 > 0:30:11When I was getting on his nerves he used to tell me to go running
0:30:11 > 0:30:14for a little bit and kick the ball about. You know...
0:30:14 > 0:30:16He knew when to put us on.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19Sometimes I knew I had a great game and he'd say, "You were crap today."
0:30:19 > 0:30:22And then when I played crap, he'd tell us I was brilliant.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24So you couldn't work him out.
0:30:24 > 0:30:29I think Terry Venables was one of those who could be one of the lads
0:30:29 > 0:30:32but yet there was a fine line how far you could take him.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35For me, from a football point of view, he simplified things.
0:30:35 > 0:30:39He gave you that kind of mentality that you wanted to win for him.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42He was brilliant. Every time we'd watch all these different teams
0:30:42 > 0:30:45and then he would always show Holland. He always said,
0:30:45 > 0:30:47"The Holland game is going to be the key game."
0:30:47 > 0:30:49Yeah. He was right.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52CHEERING
0:30:57 > 0:31:02That journey from the hotel to Wembley was special, wasn't it?
0:31:02 > 0:31:05- With fans lining the streets. - Exactly. Incredible.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08Then to go in and put in a performance like that,
0:31:08 > 0:31:10it was, for me,
0:31:10 > 0:31:13that was the best atmosphere I've ever played in in my life.
0:31:13 > 0:31:18That performance and that night against a team of Holland's calibre
0:31:18 > 0:31:21- was something special, wasn't it? - Yes, it was.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24This is where we were also saying,
0:31:24 > 0:31:28"What we need to do is to set the fans on fire, really."
0:31:28 > 0:31:31They are looking for a proper performance
0:31:31 > 0:31:34and that is exactly what we gave them.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40So far England have rewritten the cliche about the game of two halves.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43England have played for two halves but in two games.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Our partnership just worked, didn't it?
0:31:45 > 0:31:46You knew my game, I knew your game.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50I think clever players try and make it work, don't they?
0:31:50 > 0:31:52- If you see...- That's the first time
0:31:52 > 0:31:54I've been described as clever, by the way!
0:31:54 > 0:31:57- I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about me!- All right, OK.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03McManaman doesn't have too much support at the moment.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05Anderton is the most likely going forward.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07Here's Ince...
0:32:07 > 0:32:08Penalty!
0:32:13 > 0:32:15England lead.
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Everyone was a ten out of ten, weren't they?
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Yeah. We had to be.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24McManaman right in front of the goalkeeper.
0:32:25 > 0:32:27Goal!
0:32:27 > 0:32:32Terry Sheringham makes it 2-0 to England.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35You could have had another goal, really, but you decided
0:32:35 > 0:32:38- to side pass it to me, didn't you? - You tell me about that.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40I mean, I've had a lot of comments over the years
0:32:40 > 0:32:43that, "Would Shearer have passed to you?"
0:32:43 > 0:32:44I said, "No chance.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46"I don't know what I was doing passing to him."
0:32:46 > 0:32:50- You explain the situation.- No way I would have passed that to him.
0:32:50 > 0:32:51McManaman.
0:32:53 > 0:32:54Gascoigne.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56Sheringham waits.
0:32:56 > 0:32:57Shearer!
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Easy goal. You still put it in off the post.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05It wasn't that easy, come on.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08- It wasn't that easy. - My mum could have scored that.
0:33:08 > 0:33:09A little side-footer in the corner.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11You had to blast it.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13That's what you did, you blasted it.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16And you have to say it's magnificent.
0:33:16 > 0:33:21'I used an identical line that described Maradona's'
0:33:21 > 0:33:24brilliant goal against England in '86.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27"You have to say that was magnificent."
0:33:27 > 0:33:29And it was.
0:33:30 > 0:33:31That's Anderton.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33And Sheringham!
0:33:33 > 0:33:34It's four.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40That was the best performance I'd ever seen from England.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42- Is that right?- Yeah. - The best performance?
0:33:42 > 0:33:44The best performance I'd ever seen from an England team.
0:33:44 > 0:33:48The performance was just brilliant, the way the goals went.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51- Even the one I let in meant that... - You let it in, didn't you?- Oh, yeah.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53Straight through my legs.
0:33:53 > 0:33:54He's going, "Not really."
0:33:56 > 0:33:59England go into the quarterfinals on a high.
0:34:01 > 0:34:05You were quoted after the game as saying that night was perfection.
0:34:05 > 0:34:06It was perfection.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08It was super special.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10I'm the first to say well done to the players.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13But just when you think you got things licked in this game,
0:34:13 > 0:34:15it can smack you in the face.
0:34:15 > 0:34:16Were you talking about it?
0:34:16 > 0:34:19- Do players sit and say, "We can win this"?- Yeah, definitely.
0:34:19 > 0:34:23There was a feel-good factor, there was an arrogance,
0:34:23 > 0:34:26a confidence. We were locked away in our hotel.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29We didn't have a clue about the atmosphere outside the hotel.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31We didn't know what was going on in the country.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34The atmosphere in the country and in London was incredible.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36There was a sense in the '90s
0:34:36 > 0:34:39that this country had a brighter or sunnier,
0:34:39 > 0:34:42more technicoloured thing going on.
0:34:42 > 0:34:44There was Britpop and Brit Art
0:34:44 > 0:34:46- and all that sort of stuff. - And football.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49And with less than two hours to go before England take on Spain
0:34:49 > 0:34:51in the Euro 96 quarterfinal,
0:34:51 > 0:34:54thousands of fans have been pouring into Wembley.
0:34:54 > 0:34:59Before 96, an England game could be a scary place to be.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02The worst hooligans from every club in the country
0:35:02 > 0:35:04would go and watch England
0:35:04 > 0:35:08and the only chanting I remember, that I could repeat,
0:35:08 > 0:35:10is like "no surrender to the IRA". Stuff like that.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14I mean, really quite dark, scary stuff.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16I would say it started to change in 1990.
0:35:16 > 0:35:191996 in a lovely way was the kind of apex
0:35:19 > 0:35:22of a new way of going to a football game.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24It still stands out, Euro 96,
0:35:24 > 0:35:29as the last event that we had that the nation could come together with.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32CHEERING
0:35:34 > 0:35:39Not for 30 years has there been such expectancy.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45THEY GREET EACH OTHER IN SPANISH
0:35:49 > 0:35:51Hey! Mi amigo!
0:35:51 > 0:35:54El mejor persono in el mondo.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59You were El Tel, that was how you were known in the media, in England
0:35:59 > 0:36:01when you went over to Barcelona.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03Visca el Barca!
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Did you fall in love with the place?
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Barcelona, or Spain in general?
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Well, Spain in general, really.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12- Yeah.- You know all about Spanish football.- I do.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14I was there for three years and I know all about Javier Clemente.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17He was manager of Espanyol when I was at Barcelona.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20We've had a few run-ins and he's a tough cookie.
0:36:20 > 0:36:24You knew the Spanish manager very well, and he said,
0:36:24 > 0:36:27"They are either going to do this or going to play like that,
0:36:27 > 0:36:28"and maybe like that."
0:36:28 > 0:36:30They didn't do any of the three.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Yes, we've had a practice of penalties, too.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34In training we've got no problem getting five.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37Everyone wants to take them. When the pressure is on, we'll see.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41Do you think that we turned up expecting to win?
0:36:41 > 0:36:43I don't know. It seemed weird.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46I just seem to remember me having lots to do.
0:36:46 > 0:36:47We had a bit of luck as well,
0:36:47 > 0:36:50cos they had a goal disallowed that was a legal goal.
0:36:52 > 0:36:53Shearer!
0:36:55 > 0:36:58And it is to be a penalty competition.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00No golden goal.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04What's your thoughts when you were walking towards the goal?
0:37:04 > 0:37:05You're on your own then, aren't you?
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Yeah. Do you know what, what I really think?
0:37:07 > 0:37:09"Chance of glory."
0:37:10 > 0:37:12Shearer against Zubizarreta.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17England lead.
0:37:18 > 0:37:22Even though we'd started to think after Holland that we could win it,
0:37:22 > 0:37:24- certainly...- Penalties...
0:37:24 > 0:37:27What we probably thought we couldn't do was win a penalty shoot-out.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29We could win a tournament but not a penalty shoot-out.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35England stay in front.
0:37:35 > 0:37:36- Advantage us.- Yeah.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40Then it was important that the next penalty-taker scores,
0:37:40 > 0:37:42because then it really establishes a lead.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47I remember being at the side of the goal looking back
0:37:47 > 0:37:49thinking, "Who's coming down now?",
0:37:49 > 0:37:51and I see Pearcy and I'm like, "Oh, my God."
0:37:53 > 0:37:56A brave man steps forward to take England's third.
0:37:56 > 0:38:01I've never wanted anybody to score a penalty more than at that moment.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04Everyone knew what it meant, to him particularly.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07For that moment it's like watching a drama,
0:38:07 > 0:38:11this one bloke's battle against that memory.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14Banish the memory of Turin.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16Stuart Pearce.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Oh, yes, what a penalty!
0:38:21 > 0:38:24And the relief belongs not only to this championship
0:38:24 > 0:38:27but to the World Cup of 1990.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31'Stuart in his book had a bit of a go at me.
0:38:31 > 0:38:35'He said I had overplayed his reaction.'
0:38:35 > 0:38:38Now, I mean, just look at the pictures.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40Did 1990 go through your mind?
0:38:41 > 0:38:44Not today, but it has done many a time before.
0:38:46 > 0:38:47He has to score.
0:38:51 > 0:38:54And doesn't. England are through!
0:38:55 > 0:38:58I get up and I don't realise that that's the deciding penalty.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01And then I see all the lads running towards me.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03"We got it right!"
0:39:03 > 0:39:06We realised that we'd got through to the semifinals.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09We moved onto Incy's bar in the hotel.
0:39:12 > 0:39:16I met David Seaman at a film premiere about a year after Euro 96
0:39:16 > 0:39:20and he said, "Frank, can I ask you a question?
0:39:20 > 0:39:21"Who's Jules Rimet?"
0:39:28 > 0:39:31How confident were you with a team or a squad like that
0:39:31 > 0:39:33that we could do well?
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Well, you want the big attitudes,
0:39:36 > 0:39:39the guys who are not going to blow up
0:39:39 > 0:39:42or going to be frightened of this.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44If you've got captains, you've got leaders,
0:39:44 > 0:39:47you've got guys that will take the rest over the cliff.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49That was the biggest thing.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53If I could have all captains, I think to myself,
0:39:53 > 0:39:55"The others will follow on."
0:39:55 > 0:39:58I looked around the changing room and I thought, "Wow,
0:39:58 > 0:40:01"we've got fantastic players here. We've got leaders."
0:40:01 > 0:40:04So when things go wrong, we know we can come together.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Tony was without doubt my toughest opponent.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09I think he's the best centre half I ever played against.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11You knew what you were going to get from him.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Totally. We played together for so long.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16It was great for Tony for what he was going through
0:40:16 > 0:40:20and the way he has now looked after himself.
0:40:20 > 0:40:25- Yeah.- And just to get so close, it's just so frustrating!
0:40:28 > 0:40:30ORCHESTRA TUNES UP
0:40:34 > 0:40:35Hello again. Glad you've tuned in.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38You've obviously heard there's a football match on tonight.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41England against Germany, the second semifinal of Euro 96.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43Sporting history waiting to be made.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46ORCHESTRA STARTS PLAYING "Football's Coming Home"
0:40:46 > 0:40:50In the space of a few weeks, we'd gone from a national disgrace
0:40:50 > 0:40:52to being on the verge of winning the tournament.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55By that point, we knew that everyone was behind us.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00That semifinal remains the biggest game I've ever played in.
0:41:00 > 0:41:02The atmosphere and the build-up was just indescribable.
0:41:05 > 0:41:06I'll never forget it.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08I still get goose bumps just thinking about it.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15English and German football fans are gathering at Wembley
0:41:15 > 0:41:17for this evening's Euro 96 semifinal.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20I think it was a real sense that that was essentially the final,
0:41:20 > 0:41:24because if we beat Germany, we can beat the Czech Republic.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28This is always a special event, isn't it?
0:41:28 > 0:41:30It's always a bit more than a football match.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32England are on their way to Wembley,
0:41:32 > 0:41:34and the winners there will play the Czech Republic.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36The England team know what they have to do -
0:41:36 > 0:41:39exactly the same as their predecessors in 1966.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43It's great to be English, isn't it?
0:41:43 > 0:41:47I mean, we really want to give them something.
0:41:47 > 0:41:51It's one of those moments where football becomes something else.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54Like no drama, no film, nothing.
0:41:54 > 0:41:55Wembley will be packed tonight
0:41:55 > 0:41:58and millions more will watch in pubs and living rooms across the nation.
0:41:58 > 0:41:59I think for a long while
0:41:59 > 0:42:02we've not been feeling too good about ourselves in this country
0:42:02 > 0:42:04for many different reasons
0:42:04 > 0:42:08and it's wonderful to see people being thrilled at an event.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11The expectancy levels were up from all the crowd
0:42:11 > 0:42:14and I think everybody in the country wanted us to win.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22It was a great time to be an English fan.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24We were playing well, we'd got a chance for a change.
0:42:24 > 0:42:27- "Come on, let's go and do it." - "Let's do it," yeah.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30ORCHESTRA PLAYS MEDLEY OF ENGLISH SONGS
0:42:55 > 0:42:58It was a very special, very special evening.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00I was...
0:43:01 > 0:43:04The heart still beats pretty hard over it.
0:43:14 > 0:43:16Alan Shearer!
0:43:16 > 0:43:18CHEERING
0:43:18 > 0:43:20Wonderful start.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23His fifth goal in his fifth match.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26They can't quite believe it on the bench. In the European Championship.
0:43:28 > 0:43:29When you scored, I remember
0:43:29 > 0:43:31you running off with your hand up like that.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34I thought, "Oh, my God. We are, we're going to win this."
0:43:34 > 0:43:39England taking the lead in two minutes and 15 seconds.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42The chant, "It's coming home, it's coming home..."
0:43:42 > 0:43:45That peaked when you scored against Germany.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49I could hear people singing it as fast as they could sing it.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52Just so fast that they could actually bring it home.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54This is Moller for Germany.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57Helmer.
0:43:57 > 0:43:59Kuntz - it's 1-1!
0:43:59 > 0:44:01CHEERING
0:44:02 > 0:44:05Their goal seemed to happen so fast.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08It was in the box and then a couple of touches,
0:44:08 > 0:44:10bang, in the goal. I was like, "Whoa."
0:44:10 > 0:44:12Well, it was a fierce contest.
0:44:12 > 0:44:15It was a great contest and they are always hard to beat
0:44:15 > 0:44:17and they keep going until the end.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19That's why you've got to match them and some.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21WHISTLE BLOWS
0:44:23 > 0:44:25So it's extra time...
0:44:25 > 0:44:28with the first to score going through.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31I thought golden goal was actually incredibly exciting.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33Can I tell you something? They abandoned it because
0:44:33 > 0:44:35they were worried that teams
0:44:35 > 0:44:37would just seize up in golden goal and not play.
0:44:37 > 0:44:39That's absolutely not what you did.
0:44:39 > 0:44:41Platt.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43McManaman.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45Anderton waits...
0:44:45 > 0:44:48And it hits the post and it goes straight back to Kopke.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50How unlucky can you get?
0:44:52 > 0:44:55Terry Venables and Bryan Robson cannot believe that.
0:44:55 > 0:45:01I've never seen two sides who were both prepared to grab the golden goal.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03It was attack, attack, attack.
0:45:06 > 0:45:08It's curling, and it's in!
0:45:08 > 0:45:09No, a push.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12A push. It's not going to be allowed.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15Goodness me!
0:45:15 > 0:45:20Can you remember my shot late on in the golden-goal time and Gazza had
0:45:20 > 0:45:22the other half...?
0:45:22 > 0:45:23Do I remember it?
0:45:23 > 0:45:25Every night I dream about it.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27- Still?- Oh, God.
0:45:27 > 0:45:29Sheringham.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31Looks for Shearer.
0:45:31 > 0:45:33Who loses his man... Gascoigne!
0:45:33 > 0:45:35I don't believe it!
0:45:37 > 0:45:39Just couldn't get the left to it.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41The goal was yawning at his mercy.
0:45:41 > 0:45:44When I spoke to him afterwards, I was like, "What happened?"
0:45:44 > 0:45:47He said, "I thought the goalie was going to touch it.
0:45:47 > 0:45:51"I was waiting for the flick," and that stopped him.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53Everybody always goes on about the cross.
0:45:53 > 0:45:56If it was the other way around, you would have scored.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58I would've been devastated.
0:45:58 > 0:46:01- We should've scored. - Definitely.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03I thought the keeper was going to get a touch.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06- COMMENTATOR:- One last attempt for England. No, it's cut off.
0:46:06 > 0:46:10Once again, a contest between England and Germany,
0:46:10 > 0:46:13as six years ago in the World Cup,
0:46:13 > 0:46:16has to be decided in a penalty competition.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21It's a strange situation, penalties, isn't it?
0:46:21 > 0:46:25I mean, you know if you miss a penalty for England you're going to
0:46:25 > 0:46:27be remembered for missing a penalty.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30Shearer...
0:46:32 > 0:46:34..opens the penalty competition.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36England 1-0.
0:46:40 > 0:46:41Beautiful penalty.
0:46:44 > 0:46:48David Platt.
0:46:48 > 0:46:502-1 England.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54Squares it at 2-2.
0:46:54 > 0:46:58I literally watched ten perfect penalties to begin with.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02I remember thinking, "Get us through to the final,"
0:47:02 > 0:47:06and then hardly getting anywhere near their spot kicks.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09I think I put my hand to one of them.
0:47:09 > 0:47:11It was so hard it still went in.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13All of the others went down the side of the post and stuff.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17I remembered feeling like I didn't have a chance.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21Teddy Sheringham. England's last of the five.
0:47:23 > 0:47:24Yes!
0:47:27 > 0:47:29England lead 5-4.
0:47:31 > 0:47:35It's going to be Stefan Kuntz who steps forward.
0:47:35 > 0:47:36Has to score.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38And does.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44Couldn't get a sudden-death goal in extra time.
0:47:44 > 0:47:47We're moving on now to sudden death.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50It's easy to say it now, but I did...
0:47:50 > 0:47:51I was worried about it,
0:47:51 > 0:47:54the first penalty that I really felt worried about.
0:47:57 > 0:47:59Prayers being offered this time.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02Gareth Southgate.
0:48:04 > 0:48:09Did you ever think there were more experienced players to take a penalty?
0:48:10 > 0:48:12Yes, I did think so.
0:48:12 > 0:48:15I think he was asked, "Do you want a penalty?"
0:48:15 > 0:48:19It was like a response of, "Yeah, I've got to at some stage.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22"Of course, I'll take one." "Right, you're sixth, then."
0:48:22 > 0:48:25I don't think he really would have put himself up to be the sixth
0:48:25 > 0:48:27- penalty taker.- How did we get to Gareth?
0:48:27 > 0:48:31Was he always on the list or did you decide there and then?
0:48:31 > 0:48:34No, no, he had a good temperament and he was the first one
0:48:34 > 0:48:38to volunteer, because no-one really wanted it.
0:48:38 > 0:48:42It was a little bit up in the air and on the floor and looking over there.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44"Can I see your face?" You know?
0:48:44 > 0:48:48But...you know what it's like.
0:48:48 > 0:48:51Wasn't there someone who I thought should have taken one that didn't?
0:48:51 > 0:48:53- I can't remember now.- I think if there's a striker on the pitch and a
0:48:53 > 0:48:55defender is going up and missing a penalty,
0:48:55 > 0:48:58you're blaming the striker as much as the guy who's missed.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01Was there someone, Alan?
0:49:01 > 0:49:03- Was it Paul Ince or...? - I think it was.
0:49:03 > 0:49:08The penalty takers are named and you're not in to take a penalty -
0:49:08 > 0:49:10- was there a reason for that? - It was a strange one.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13I think... I've never really spoken about this.
0:49:13 > 0:49:16I've never myself been a penalty taker, let alone a goal-scorer.
0:49:18 > 0:49:22I remembered El Tel saying, bang, bang, bang, so and so.
0:49:22 > 0:49:24Teddy, yourself.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27He said to Southey, "You're sixth or seventh."
0:49:27 > 0:49:31I was going after Southey. I'm quite glad he missed, to be fair.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34I'm joking!
0:49:34 > 0:49:37People look back and say, "why didn't you take a penalty?"
0:49:37 > 0:49:40I could have been six or seven.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42If I'd been six, who knows what might have happened.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47- COMMENTATOR:- Prayers being offered this time.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Gareth Southgate.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54Oh, no!
0:50:09 > 0:50:13# Just a perfect day
0:50:13 > 0:50:16# Drink Sangria in the park... #
0:50:16 > 0:50:20You have to save for us to... to stay in there.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23Yeah, and I just remember getting nowhere near it.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32As soon as Moller scored his penalty,
0:50:32 > 0:50:35that's it, that's the end of the tournament.
0:50:35 > 0:50:39You've got to go home now. No, no, no, we're enjoying ourselves.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42I wanted to carry on. Let us play a bit more.
0:50:42 > 0:50:44No, that's it, you're out. You've got to go.
0:50:47 > 0:50:51# Oh, it's such a perfect day
0:50:51 > 0:50:56# I'm glad I spent it with you
0:50:56 > 0:51:01# Oh, such a perfect day
0:51:02 > 0:51:05# You just keep me hanging on
0:51:05 > 0:51:10# You just keep me hanging on... #
0:51:10 > 0:51:14Alan, you felt so sorry for Gareth Southgate.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18- Terry was brilliant.- I just went and said... Cos his face, it went...
0:51:18 > 0:51:24It hit him. It's unfair to actually get that sort of torment.
0:51:24 > 0:51:27I just said, "It's OK. Everyone is fine. Don't worry.
0:51:27 > 0:51:30"You know, you've done your best.
0:51:30 > 0:51:34"You've been brilliant. Come on, you need to keep your head up."
0:51:37 > 0:51:41It was horrible. It was horrible because we really did think you
0:51:41 > 0:51:44guys were going to win. We absolutely believed it.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46We kept saying, "This is our perfect summer."
0:51:46 > 0:51:50Remember this. Savour every moment.
0:51:50 > 0:51:54It was all set, it was going to happen.
0:51:54 > 0:51:59# Oh, it's such a perfect day
0:51:59 > 0:52:00# I'm glad I spent it with... #
0:52:00 > 0:52:04There was hooliganism in Trafalgar Square that night.
0:52:04 > 0:52:09It was like, as soon as we were out, the whole perfect summer crumbled.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12# You just keep me hanging on
0:52:12 > 0:52:18# You just keep me hanging on... #
0:52:19 > 0:52:21Any regrets at all about the tournament?
0:52:21 > 0:52:23Would you do anything different?
0:52:23 > 0:52:26I don't think we'll ever have a better chance of winning a major
0:52:26 > 0:52:30- competition.- We would have won it, do you think, if we got through on those penalties?
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Ifs and buts again, mate.
0:52:32 > 0:52:33No good, are they?
0:52:33 > 0:52:37It's a pretty sombre bus on the way back to the hotel.
0:52:37 > 0:52:38We had a few beers that night.
0:52:38 > 0:52:39We had quite a few!
0:52:40 > 0:52:43Can you imagine what it would have been like if we beat them?
0:52:43 > 0:52:46England's former soccer captain Tony Adams has admitted that he's
0:52:46 > 0:52:49an alcoholic. He says he's on the road to recovery.
0:52:49 > 0:52:54Adams says his problem became serious after the team's semifinal defeat.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56I'm not living a lie any more, which is great.
0:52:56 > 0:52:58I feel a lot better for it.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00And it's...
0:53:05 > 0:53:10England having gone out at the semifinal, for a lot of the nation,
0:53:10 > 0:53:12that was a bit of an anticlimax, the final.
0:53:12 > 0:53:13An understatement, that, John.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28This to win it.
0:53:31 > 0:53:33Never a doubt.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36Run around the course, eh?
0:53:38 > 0:53:40Great memories looking back,
0:53:40 > 0:53:45- talking about it with the public that came up.- Still now, isn't it?
0:53:45 > 0:53:48- Yeah.- 20 years on.- Yeah. I love it, I love it.
0:53:48 > 0:53:52People come up, "I hope I'm not boring you, talking about Euro 96."
0:53:52 > 0:53:54Tell me about it, tell me about your scenario.
0:53:54 > 0:53:57Tell me about it and we'll relive it for a couple of minutes.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01Youngsters, of course, don't remember it too much but
0:54:01 > 0:54:04their fathers tell them all about it, that sort of thing.
0:54:04 > 0:54:10I... But it is, they do come up and say it was the best feeling they've ever had.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13It's just a shame of that...
0:54:13 > 0:54:16It just wasn't to be.
0:54:16 > 0:54:20- Do you ever think what could have been?- Do I? Of course I do.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22I think to myself,
0:54:22 > 0:54:25"Things have turned out all right."
0:54:26 > 0:54:28It could have been...
0:54:28 > 0:54:30It could have been better.
0:54:30 > 0:54:34I'm very... As I said before, you can't take it away from me.
0:54:36 > 0:54:37So football's your whole life?
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Yes.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41- You want it to go on being your whole life?- Yes.
0:54:42 > 0:54:45I'll stick with it for the rest of my life.
0:54:45 > 0:54:49I hope that everybody else had a pretty good time
0:54:49 > 0:54:52and maybe we'll do it in the future.
0:54:57 > 0:55:01We couldn't have had more support and we're all in it together.
0:55:01 > 0:55:04Not just the players, but the fans and...
0:55:04 > 0:55:06we win together and we lose together.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17- I see Tony.- Yeah.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20We don't really reminisce about it.
0:55:20 > 0:55:24When you're there and you've done it, you're like, that's him there.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26We know what we had...
0:55:26 > 0:55:27- And Gazza?- Gazza, yes.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30I do keep in touch with him a little bit.
0:55:30 > 0:55:33You see what Gazza is going through. It is sad.
0:55:33 > 0:55:36I thought Gazza was the best English player I ever saw.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38I thought he had everything.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41Is Gascoigne going to have a crack? He is, you know.
0:55:41 > 0:55:42Ohhhh! I say.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45Brilliant.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49That is Schoolboys' Own stuff!
0:55:52 > 0:55:54Oh, I bet even he can't believe it!
0:55:57 > 0:55:59Oh, what an honour.
0:55:59 > 0:56:00Thanks very much.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02He became a hero, didn't he?
0:56:12 > 0:56:14Lovely, thank you very much.
0:56:14 > 0:56:15Cheers, mate.
0:56:22 > 0:56:25Thanks, mate. Cheers.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27- Enjoy tonight.- You too, mate.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29For Gazza, that was...
0:56:29 > 0:56:31- His high point, in fact.- Good point.
0:56:37 > 0:56:40Gazza is complicated, to watch his progress.
0:56:40 > 0:56:44You could tell he was a vulnerable bloke and that was one reason why you felt for him.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46We always said that, didn't we?
0:56:46 > 0:56:48We were worried for Gazza when he quit.
0:56:48 > 0:56:53It felt like football was the one thing that kept him together.
0:56:53 > 0:56:55You know, it's sort of proved to be true.
0:56:55 > 0:57:02Please welcome on stage your very own Paul Gascoigne! Gazza!
0:57:05 > 0:57:10Is Euro 96 a big part of what people want to talk to you about?
0:57:10 > 0:57:13Yeah. I'm never going to get them times again, you know?
0:57:13 > 0:57:17Do you still keep in contact with the lads from that time?
0:57:17 > 0:57:19Yes, I speak to them and how they're getting on,
0:57:19 > 0:57:21I just know whenever I meet them I get too excited.
0:57:21 > 0:57:23I get myself in trouble again.
0:57:23 > 0:57:27For me, I find it sometimes really hard in my life to go back
0:57:27 > 0:57:30to the great times I had. I keep thinking to myself, "Well,
0:57:30 > 0:57:32"I'm never going to have them times again."
0:57:32 > 0:57:36Years ago I realised that when I played for Newcastle when I was 17,
0:57:36 > 0:57:39and this is a stupid of me, this is how bad I was...
0:57:39 > 0:57:43but when the season finished I went back to the Excelsior club.
0:57:43 > 0:57:46- The season had finished and I started crying...- Clubbing?- Yeah.
0:57:46 > 0:57:49The Gateshead. I started crying my eyes out.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51My dad said, "What are you crying about?"
0:57:51 > 0:57:52I said, "My career is finished."
0:57:52 > 0:57:55He went, "No, you haven't. You're having a break for six weeks."
0:57:55 > 0:57:58"No, I'm not going to play again." That's how bad I was even just then.
0:57:58 > 0:58:01So, imagine what it was like for me when I bump into the lads and
0:58:01 > 0:58:03just reminisce about the great times we had.
0:58:03 > 0:58:07Then...some of the people and some of the press might try and
0:58:07 > 0:58:10take a lot of the stuff away from us, but them things they can't.
0:58:10 > 0:58:14Do you actually get together with the Euro 96 team?
0:58:14 > 0:58:15Do you have reunions?
0:58:15 > 0:58:18No, we don't have any reunions.
0:58:18 > 0:58:21I think this is why it has been fantastic to go around for the last
0:58:21 > 0:58:2312 months and speak to the guys and
0:58:23 > 0:58:26- get their feelings, what they're doing now etc.- Yeah.
0:58:26 > 0:58:29I like to think that you're all getting together and singing the song.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33- That's what I like to think. - I'd like to see it.- That's what we should finish off with.
0:58:33 > 0:58:35Once a year you gather around the dentist's chair.
0:58:35 > 0:58:38Yeah. If you like, we could reshoot the video with you in it.
0:58:40 > 0:58:43I've got to sign some footballs! Sorry!
0:58:45 > 0:58:50MUSIC: A Design For Life by Manic Street Preachers
0:58:50 > 0:58:53# Then work came and made us free
0:58:54 > 0:58:57# What price now
0:58:59 > 0:59:07# For a shallow piece of dignity?
0:59:10 > 0:59:13# I wish I had a bottle
0:59:16 > 0:59:19# Right here in my dirty face
0:59:21 > 0:59:23# To wear the scars... #