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Hello again, glad you have tuned in. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
You've obviously heard there is a football match on tonight, | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
England against Germany, the second semifinal of Euro 96, | 0:00:13 | 0:00:16 | |
sporting history waiting to be made. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:17 | |
In everyone's life, there are moments when you look back | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
and think, "What if?" | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
Memories that keep you awake at night, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
replaying them over and over again. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
20 years ago, for one unforgettable summer, | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
we shared so many of those moments together. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
Shearer loses his man... Gascoigne! | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
What if? | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
I don't believe it! | 0:00:49 | 0:00:50 | |
This is unbelievable stuff. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
It's not a bad place it looks as if he's got here. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
He must have assembled a decent team in Euro 96. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
Think that's where he made all his money, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
off the back of us players, actually. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
-There is the man there. Look, there he is. -Hey! | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
-Hey! -How are you doing? | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
You haven't got a bad place here, have you? | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
It's not bad, it's all right. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
You must have done something right in your life! | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
-I don't know about that! Great to see you. -Thank you. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
-Thanks for having us. -Great that you've come. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
-Want to show us around? -Of course. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
-So, how long have you been here? -18 years. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
-Opened a year, actually open. -How did you find this spot, then? | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
It was because we were looking for something else and bumped into this. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
La Escondida. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:49 | |
La Escondida. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
-What does that mean? -Hideaway. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
-Retreat, is it, or something like that? -Retreat, you've got it. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
-Keeps you going and out of trouble. -Absolutely. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
Hopefully! This is the reception | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
where everyone comes in and gets checked in | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
with their passports... | 0:02:03 | 0:02:04 | |
And a lovely glass of champagne on arrival. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
Glass of champagne on arrival. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
We go through here, the chefs there, four chefs. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:14 | |
Good afternoon. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
-OK. -Wow! | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
-So... -Where did it all go wrong? THEY LAUGH | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
Yeah. It's a lovely view. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
Let's have a little wander around. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
In fact, I don't now where I am. I've only just got up! | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
Euro 96 will be a landmark event in our sporting history, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
just as the World Cup finals were 30 years ago. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
Let's go, then. I'm going to take some money off you. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
Now, Group C. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
England. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
CHEERING | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
So, you were at West Ham with Sam and then Stevenage, | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
whatever happened, happened. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
Are you looking to get back into football? | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
Well, if you'd have asked me four or five days after getting the sack, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
I'd have gone, "Sod that!" | 0:03:05 | 0:03:06 | |
-What a game that is! -Did you always think | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
you were going to go into management? | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
I always thought you were happier on the golf course. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
I feel like I'm a football man. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
That's all I ever wanted to do when I was a kid, growing up. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
I felt it was the right time. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:20 | |
You played under some decent managers - Clough, Venables, Fergie. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
-Yeah. -What did you take off those guys? | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
Obviously not enough. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
Look at the old fella, straight up the middle. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
It's ugly, but I'll take it. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
With the start of the European Championship only 16 days away, | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
team spirit and match fitness for some of his players | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
is what he wants from this two-game tour to the Far East. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
-Hello! -You all right? Nice to see you. -How are you? | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
-You all right? -I'm very well, thanks. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
-Thanks very much for doing this. -It's a pleasure. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
We don't remember anything. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:53 | |
-I don't either, it's fine. -It was a very long time ago. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
We have even got the old sofa for you, boys. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
-Did you recognise it? -Just like the old days. -Shall we sit on it? | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
-You can sit on it. -You sit here, don't you? | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
Hello and welcome to European Fantasy Football League. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
What are you guys up to now? | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
I mainly beg on the street. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
Lots of stuff. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
We do... He lives in my road, by the way. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
-I think people think... -Oh, right, still. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
Because we don't do a show together. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
Now that we have families, | 0:04:26 | 0:04:27 | |
we thought we shouldn't be in the same house, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
otherwise it becomes a commune. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
In the Czech Republic game last Sunday, | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
John Motson was particularly critical | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
of the two strikers substituted by Germany. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
So, Bierhoff's got a short time to press his claims | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
now that the two other strikers | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
who started the match have both been taken off. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
Kuntz. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:49 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
Fantasy Football, how did that come about? | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
Whose idea was that? Because we've got the sofa there, as well, | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
-the same sofa. -We are sitting in the right order, | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
this is how we always sat. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
The sofa has aged better than the three of us, hasn't it? | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
Yeah, it certainly has, yeah. It has, it hasn't gained a pound. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
We got phoned up by the bloke who brought the actual game to Britain, | 0:05:06 | 0:05:11 | |
and he said, "Could this be on the telly?" | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
and we talked about it and thought, "Well, it could, | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
"as long as basically it's a comedy show about football." | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
We said, "Why don't we just make it a representation | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
"of our own home life, | 0:05:20 | 0:05:21 | |
"where we sit on the sofa, we watch football with beers..." | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
He is an ex-alcoholic, so he wasn't actually drinking any beer. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
-You're never an ex-alcoholic. -Sorry. But... | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
I would drink beer, | 0:05:30 | 0:05:31 | |
and then people would come round and watch football with us. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
I think, in the '90s, we were seen as being at the centre | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
of a thing called the new lads culture. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
People get nostalgic about Euro 96, but not new lads. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
Now, it's really disgraced, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
just because the magazines had pictures | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
of Liz Hurley in her underwear. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
Two of Britain's most popular pop groups | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
have begun the biggest chart war in 30 years. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
# I'm a firestarter Twisted firestarter... # | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
Pop group Take That have confirmed they are to split up. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:08 | |
Damien Hirst has won this year's Turner Prize. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
# You'll never live like common people... # | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
# Don't look back in anger I heard you say... # | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
England have named their squad for the European Championship finals, | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
which kick off at Wembley in 12 days' time. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
Would Fantasy Football work now? | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
I think the show could exist. I mean, you know, the show... | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
Could you get away now with what you did then? | 0:06:29 | 0:06:34 | |
-Not Jason Lee, obviously... -Well, one thing about... | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
Yeah, there were some things. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
There was a player who played for Notts Forest called Jason Lee. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
Jason Lee was missing goals consistently | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
and we featured all his misses in, like, montages and stuff. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
All his misses! | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
-They make me sick! -Yeah, they make me sick... | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Pineapple head? Was it the pineapple head? | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
We wouldn't be able to get away with that, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
and maybe that's a good thing. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
But basically what we did do is we said on telly | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
what people said on the terraces and stuff all the time. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:05 | |
-How are you? Nice to see you. -Nice dulcet tones! | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
Exactly. Yeah, good. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
Good, nice to see you. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
-Good. -'So what's life like now, then, as a hotel owner? | 0:07:11 | 0:07:16 | |
'Stressful? What is it?' | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
It's stressful, inasmuch as it is hard work. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
It can't be that hard work, you look unbelievable! | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
For your age. You're doing something right. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
Steady! Steady! | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
What would you be doing | 0:07:29 | 0:07:30 | |
if you weren't going to be playing football all your life? | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
Oh, I have no idea. It's all I can do! | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
-Do you miss football? -Yeah, of course. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
How can you not? I mean, it's... | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
my life, it's always been my life, | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
and always will be until there is no... | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
Now, inside, inside, inside! You're still in contact! | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
Imagine if we'd have won that tournament. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
-It would have been SIR Terry Venables. -Oh, God. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
Do you look back at the tournament and think, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
"It is a tournament we should have won"? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
'Well, I just don't know how we didn't win it. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
'What we went through was something I've never experienced.' | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
One of the best times of your life? | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
Oh, without a doubt. I think the best. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
-THE best? -Yeah, I would say so. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Even after what you've achieved | 0:08:11 | 0:08:12 | |
-with Barcelona and Tottenham and everywhere you've been? -Well, yeah. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
It was a good career, going from Crystal Palace, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
Queens Park Rangers and getting higher and better. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I thought someone was having a joke, | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
you know? That Barcelona were very interested. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
But then when you get to England, | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
it is always to do with your parents | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
-and your grandparents and a special feeling. -Proud moments, then? | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
I think proud moments is right, yes. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
In '96, I was in the form of my life for Blackburn. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
I'd won the league the season before, | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
but I hadn't scored for England for nearly two years. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
On top of that, Terry Venables had been forced to announce | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
he would step down after Euro 96. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
We were all feeling the pressure of the competition on home soil. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
Within the last few minutes, police have confirmed | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
that they are investigating allegations of damage to the plane | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
that carried the England players back from Hong Kong. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
The police, the Football Association and the airline | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
are all investigating the incident, | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
which has prompted calls from some MPs | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
to exclude any players involved from the team. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
Take you back to our little infamous trip to China and Hong Kong. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:20 | |
-Yeah. -Did you feel that the players let you down because of that episode | 0:09:20 | 0:09:25 | |
-in that particular nightclub? -No, no... | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
Cos you'd given us a curfew. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:29 | |
There were seven or eight players pictured... | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
There were seven or eight who stayed back in the hotel. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
It was probably four or five that were out, who weren't pictured also. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
I was one of those guys. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
Did you ever feel that we'd let you down by actually going out? | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
No, those were the things that make the difference, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
because you think you are in trouble and, all of a sudden, | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
you've actually said, "No, | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
"my job here and your job with me is to win the game. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:55 | |
"However we win it, we win it." | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
So you used the negative press to your advantage? | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
Yeah, even some of the FA people were very unhappy with me. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:06 | |
And I'm saying, "Well, fine, we'll talk about it later." | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
The England squad has accepted collective responsibility | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
for what happened. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:14 | |
Did you feel we let him down in what we did in Hong Kong, | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
or what you did? You were the ringleader! | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
I wasn't, I wasn't. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:21 | |
You were the one with your top off in the dentist's chair. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
I'm always there, but I'm never the ringleader. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
The guy who said he had his top off in the chair and everything, yeah. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
I was exactly the same at school, I was easily led, you know? | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
And I just... I'm still the same, even now. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
The thing was they had permission to go out drinking and that is a fact. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
There were some supporters there, taking some photos, going, | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
"Oh, there's the boys," you know? | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
And then there was the problem that sort of sparked it off. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
Well, that's life. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:49 | |
It was a great night. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
You know all the ripped shirts? | 0:10:51 | 0:10:53 | |
I don't think it ever got out how that came about. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
I remember Bryan Robson coming over to us and went, "Be careful, lads." | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
Someone came out from behind whoever he was talking to | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
and went, "Shut up, Robbo!" | 0:11:02 | 0:11:03 | |
and pulled the top down and ripped his top like that. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
And he sort of looked and went, "Oh..." | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
-And he was the coach. -And he was the coach. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
And then that escalated into a few others | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
and then all hell broke loose | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
and a couple more drinks and we looked a right shambles. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
And now you know why we never won the tournament! | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
So, to the first match, England against Switzerland in Group A. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
Wembley, packed to the rafters, the atmosphere electric, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
the commentary from Barry Davies. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
The long wait is over. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
This is for real. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
Well, thanks very much, guys. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
You're both still commentating. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
How are you both, all well? | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
I think so, yes. Voice is still fairly strong | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
-and I think his is, too. -We survive. We always have. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
-Yeah. -The wider media wrote us off, I think. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
-Yes. -So what were your opinions, | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
when you saw what happened, what went on? | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
As you said, you got hammered in more ways than one. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
-Yeah. -But... | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
How long did it take you to think that one up?! | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
Not long. So it wasn't a favourable press, | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
not when we went into the first game. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
-COMMENTARY: -A new generation think that it is all about to begin. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
And it is now. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
I wanted to take you to golf, you wanted to take me fishing, | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
so we've come for a romantic stroll in the park. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
This is more your scene, isn't it? Cool and calm. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
You've never been into management. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
You're one of the few of the squad that didn't. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
-Just never fancied it. -Is that what has taken most of your time, | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
the fishing or the golf or what? | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
I love my fishing. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:54 | |
You know, golf, I play off six, I play a bit of golf. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
We still ice skate. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
As you do. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:02 | |
Turkyilmaz in the six yard area. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
That is well claimed. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:07 | |
We were all under pressure, | 0:13:07 | 0:13:08 | |
and it wasn't the greatest performance, was it? | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
No, it wasn't, and I do remember feeling the pressure a lot, | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
because of the fact it is at Wembley | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
and all the stuff that had gone in the press. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
Oh, dear, here you go. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
Another wonderful morning at Escondida. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:27 | |
I hadn't scored for almost two years, nearly 14 or 15 games. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
I remember! | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
I remember it well as well! | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
I was saying, "No, take it easy. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
"No, you've got to take it easy." | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
"For God's sake, hurry up and score!" | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
What you said to me was, "Whatever happens, | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
"in between now and Euro 96 starting, | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
"Alan, you will be my number nine, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
"you will start that first game." | 0:13:56 | 0:13:57 | |
And I stood back from that | 0:13:57 | 0:13:58 | |
and I thought, "Wow, for him to tell me that, | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
"he doesn't half think a lot of me." | 0:14:01 | 0:14:02 | |
It wasn't really a difficult decision for me. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
You're no good putting worry on to worry, | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
because that is not going to help. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
We all know what happened from then on. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
Gascoigne. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
Shearer. Ince. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
Anderton right side. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:19 | |
McManaman left side. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
Shearer clear... Scores! | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
Well, wouldn't you know it? | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
When it mattered, he knew where the goal was. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:34 | |
How did it... I know how I felt when I scored, how did you feel? | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
"You beauty!" | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
They are holding up the lights on the board and it's Paul Gascoigne. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:47 | |
You are hoping to play well, just to shut everybody up. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
And we didn't play that well, did we? | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
No, I know. That was another penalty as well. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
Grassi... Blocked by the hands of Pearce and that is a penalty. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:01 | |
It's going to be down to David Seaman to save the day. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
Turkyilmaz to take. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:09 | |
And it is 1-1. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
Rolled it in. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
'That really didn't calm everyone down. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
'But everybody made comparisons with 30 years before. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:23 | |
-Yeah. Uruguay. -And I tell you what... | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
England/Switzerland was a great deal better than England/Uruguay, | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
which was a terrible game! | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
-COMMENTARY: -And the European Championship opens with a draw. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
We've got to get three points against Scotland | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
and try and get something against Holland as well, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
to be sure of getting through. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:41 | |
It'll be tough. We're going to have to play better than that. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
A little bit disappointed, | 0:15:44 | 0:15:45 | |
but we're looking forward to the Scotland game. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
We've got a week to prepare for it. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
But don't write us off. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
I just don't know whether we expect too much | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
from the manager and the quality of players that we have. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:59 | |
Don't fans have a right to expect | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
England to beat Switzerland at Wembley? | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
Inventive, creative on the ball, he's England's best player. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
In open play, if anybody's going to make it happen, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
it's going to be Paul Gascoigne. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:10 | |
But, after 50 minutes, | 0:16:10 | 0:16:12 | |
he disappeared and England as an attacking force disappeared as well. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
We're on our way to see Gazza. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
He is doing a Q&A in Newcastle. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
He does 20 or 30 a year now, which is great for him. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
He's got to have an income. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
People, I think, have badly advised him, took advantage of him, | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
because he is such a genuine and open and honest guy. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:43 | |
His dream was to be a footballer. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
It was like mine. He was fortunate enough to make it as a footballer | 0:16:46 | 0:16:53 | |
because of his talent. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
He left here, the north-east, and went down to London, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
which many say was the downfall of him. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
If he had gone to Manchester with Fergie, | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
then that might have been slightly different. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
I probably agree with that. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
I know he's had a bit of a tough time over the last few years. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
When you look at some people, you hope the penny might drop. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:14 | |
And I hope daily and I pray daily that I don't wake up | 0:17:14 | 0:17:20 | |
and hear that the worst has happened to Gazza | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
because the world would be a sadder place without him. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
Do you miss football? | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
-Because you loved it, didn't you? -Aye, definitely. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
I really miss it badly, even today, you know? | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
I still wish I was playing. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:38 | |
I find it hard sometimes to watch games. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
You're looking good. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
Yeah, I'm not too bad. It's took us 20 years, like, but... | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
Is that all? | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
What's your memories of Hong Kong? | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
-I don't know. -Just before '96? | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
I can't remember. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:52 | |
All I know is I went on some chair for a filling, | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
-my tooth was slack at the back. -The dentist's chair. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
Yeah. The dentist's chair, obviously... | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
It was my birthday as well, I know that, so... | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
Talk about celebrating your birthday! | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
Terry Venables, happy to face autograph hunters - | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
a welcome change from fending off a week of constant questions | 0:18:08 | 0:18:12 | |
yet again on fitness, nightclubs and alcohol. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
The public pick up the paper, | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
and they are going to believe all they're reading, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
and we're made out to have had a three-week party here. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
A few beers, a good weekend, can't beat it. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
I think the Scots felt this was their great chance. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
They thought they could come to Wembley and really put up a show. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
Paul Gascoigne is the talk of the town. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
What will you be saying to him before this match? | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
Well, I've already spoken to him. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
I just want him to relax and get his head around the game. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
I mean, he's been doing that all week. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
You've always had a special bond with him, haven't you? | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
Yeah, he's just beyond anything you would expect from his football, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:56 | |
from his cheek, from his audacity, from anything he could do. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
I mean, he was a brilliant player. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:01 | |
That night, before the game against Scotland, | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
I couldn't sleep and I knocked on his door | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
and he went, "What do you want?" I went, "I'm worried." | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
And he went, "Sit down." And I went, "Yeah..." | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
He said, "What are you worried about?" | 0:19:10 | 0:19:11 | |
"I don't know if you're going to pick us tomorrow." "I'm not." | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
So I've got tears in my eyes, right? | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
I'm saying, "Please! I promise, I promise, I'll play well." | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
And he let this go for about 45 minutes, | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
and it's about a quarter past 11 and he went, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
"Of course you're playing, now get to bed and sleep." | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
I think it's a chance for this English team | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
to show the nation that last Saturday was a one-off. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
England have had their problems. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
Have they got together as a group | 0:19:31 | 0:19:32 | |
and said, "Right, they have slated us, lads, | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
"let's go out and show them"? | 0:19:34 | 0:19:35 | |
We'd not played Scotland for ages, you know, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
so there was that pressure. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
Then there's the pressure that we actually needed to win. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
Months of anticipation, building up to this moment | 0:19:42 | 0:19:47 | |
as Scotland in blue start the match. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
Shouldn't be far away. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
-Shearer is going one-up here. -Cheeky! | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
It was a good game for us to play in the second game, | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
cos it made us get up for it. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
-Teddy is nervous! -I heard the footsteps, didn't I? | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
-Yeah, love it. -Thought someone was going to come and jump on me. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
Still don't think we played great again, though. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
Shearer, one-up. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
Oh, it's like that, is it? | 0:20:15 | 0:20:16 | |
It would have to be a fight. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
Second-half was an excellent game against Scotland. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
There was a point during the Scotland game | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
where I did think, "This is... | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
"Surely we can beat Scotland?" | 0:20:31 | 0:20:32 | |
Now McManaman, a bit of variety here by England. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
Gascoigne in the penalty area. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
This is Neville. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
Oh, and there's Alan Shearer! | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
THEY CHEER | 0:20:42 | 0:20:45 | |
Alan Shearer scores for England! | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
His second goal of the tournament | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
and England are in front. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
Shearer! Shearer! | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
We were winning 1-0 and then Tony Adams gives a penalty away. | 0:20:55 | 0:21:00 | |
The cross finds Durie. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
Penalty! Penalty to Scotland. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
Come on, was it you that saved the penalty | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
or was it Uri Geller moving the ball and everything else? | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
I'm sure Uri takes all the credit! | 0:21:11 | 0:21:12 | |
He repeated that bit of absolute nonsense on Fantasy Football. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:17 | |
Anyway, the McAlister penalty... | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
That was mind power of millions of English people, | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
wanting it to distract. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
He was in a helicopter off the ground | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
-or something. -Is that what he said? | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
Yeah, he was making the ball move for England. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
You don't think it might just be | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
that Gary McAllister took a shit penalty? | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
As he ran up to the ball, I did see the ball just start rotating. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:38 | |
-Did you actually see it move? -Yeah. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:39 | |
But then he must have seen it because he actually pinged it. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:43 | |
Oh, saved by Seaman! | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
THEY CHEER | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
Off we went down the wing, and then I remember, what, | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
about a minute later, Gazza scoring an unbelievable goal. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
What do you think about Gazza's goal? | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
-Oh, it was a good one. -A special one? | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
Yeah. Thanks for stealing all my glory, though! God! | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
Here's Gascoigne! Oh, brilliant! | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
Oh, yes! Oh, yes! | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
What a wonderful goal by Gascoigne! | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
What a pertinent answer to all his critics. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
We loved all of you, but I think, with Gazza, | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
we really felt like we'd got someone. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
And I remember I was saying, "Whoever scores, lads, | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
"do the dentist's chair." | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
And, you know, being an alcoholic, it had to be me. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
And is that your favourite goal? | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
Yeah, because we were at home at Euro 96, | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
we'd got loads of stick from the press | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
so that shut them up a little bit. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:44 | |
But it was such a brilliant goal, I must admit. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Now, of course, the press turned. It was all about Gazza. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
Sure. It set the tournament up from an England point of view, clearly. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
-COMMENTARY: -This is the moment they will talk about, | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
when Gascoigne jinked through as of old | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
and stamped his indelible mark on Euro 96. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
The DJ put the song on at the end and, suddenly... | 0:23:05 | 0:23:09 | |
And we didn't know that everyone knew it, everyone starts singing it. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
And, honestly, it is an unbelievable, unbelievable thing. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:17 | |
-CROWD SINGS: -# It's coming Football's coming home | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
# It's coming home It's coming home | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
# It's coming Football's coming home... # | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
# Everyone seems to know the score | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
# They've seen it all before | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
# They just know They're so sure... # | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
Whose idea was it? | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
-What, the song? -Who wrote the song? | 0:23:44 | 0:23:45 | |
The song music was written by Ian Brodie, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
Ian Brodie of the Lightning Seeds. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
He just felt that we represented football fans | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
-and so asked us to write the lyrics. -The weird thing was, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
he was famous for writing bittersweet love songs and he said, | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
"I don't think I could write a football song," | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
so we came in and we wrote a bittersweet love song | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
about the England team. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:04 | |
Yeah, the lyrics were that thing of, like, | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
trying to chime with the real experience | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
of an England football fan, | 0:24:09 | 0:24:10 | |
which is not that we are going to win, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
but nor that we think we are going to lose, it's somewhere in between. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
It's hope over experience. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
It's like, "We're probably going to lose, but you never know, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
"you never know!" And that, I think, | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
is what made it something that people have remembered | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
and that people sung at the time. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
It was always playing on the bus, wasn't it, on the way to the games. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
It's definitely the best football song, isn't it? | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
You're right, it got the nation together, didn't it? | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
When we took Three Lions to the England training camp and played it, | 0:24:36 | 0:24:41 | |
we said, "Oh, is there any players | 0:24:41 | 0:24:42 | |
"who'd like to come and be in the video?" | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
Now, to be in a pop video, you'd think that would be... | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
I remember you said, | 0:24:47 | 0:24:48 | |
"Oh, can't we just sign some footballs instead?" | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
But, yeah... | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
I was dull and I was boring! | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
Yeah. I actually watched it this morning | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
and I was thinking to myself, "How come I'm not in that video?" | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
Cos you were signing footballs, Alan. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
Didn't have any footballs to sign. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:03 | |
-Yeah, we got Steve Stone instead. -Steve Stone! | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
You've been trying to look like him ever since. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
# Jules Rimet still gleaming... # | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
I did the one... You know when Bobby Charlton feinted to go one way, | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
pushed it the other way and hit it in the top corner? | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
I did it the first take. I drilled it in the top corner | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
and was like, "That will do then! That's a take." | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
I must point out that we did actually come down | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
to Burnham Beeches with the song and play it to you lot | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
and I don't remember such a great reaction. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
Terry Venables listened to it tapping his car keys like that | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
and then he said, "It's a real key tapper, isn't it?" | 0:25:39 | 0:25:42 | |
I said, "I don't think that's a phrase, is it? A key tapper?" | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
Yeah! | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
Well, as we're stood probably half a mile away from Old Trafford, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
good memories for you? | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
Oh, yeah, played with so many great players in that great stadium. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
When I look at it, it brings back great memories. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
Can you imagine how many more trophies you would have won | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
-if I'd have joined? -I'm a bit disappointed. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
Can you imagine how many trophies YOU would've won? | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
I know, exactly. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
What about your relationship with Gazza? | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
Both on the pitch and off the pitch, | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
you got on very well with him, didn't you? | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
Yeah, we were very, very close. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:24 | |
You know, he used to come to my room all the time. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
I'm only laughing cos you probably know a lot about it. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
-He was always in my room. -Elaborate. What was going on in your room? | 0:26:30 | 0:26:34 | |
Well... It was... | 0:26:34 | 0:26:35 | |
It was like a pub, to be fair. It was like a pub. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:41 | |
They used to come in there and play games and have a few beers. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
It was a bit of fun and it took the pressure away | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
from thinking about the next game. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
I enjoyed it and I know the lads did. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
Am I allowed to swear on this BLEEP camera? | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
Three off the tee. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:00 | |
When I spoke to Incey, | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
he said his room was sometimes classed as a bar, as a pub. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:07 | |
I can't quite remember that, to be honest. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
-Can you? -Not really. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:11 | |
-During the competition? -Yeah, during the competition. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
He said we used to have a couple of beers in his room, | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
or him and Gazza did anyway. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
Well... You'd expect Gazza to have a couple of beers of some sort. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
I thought we'd kind of made a little pact between the lot of us | 0:27:23 | 0:27:28 | |
that we'd stay off the drink | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
and make a real commitment to what we were trying to do. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
What's it like in those trees? | 0:27:32 | 0:27:33 | |
I'm not in them yet! | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
I think we'll call that a lost ball, shall we? | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
It was important to have a laugh though, wasn't it, | 0:27:43 | 0:27:45 | |
have a bit of downtime. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:46 | |
Yeah, but then we always had that with the characters | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
that we had in the squad, didn't we? | 0:27:49 | 0:27:50 | |
We've got snooker tables, table tennis, a games room, | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
a certain Mr Gascoigne keeps us entertained as well | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
so we're all right. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
What would he be doing? Can you share a few secrets with us? | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
I think he's down the pub | 0:28:00 | 0:28:01 | |
having a couple of pints with the rest of the lads! | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
No cameras, though. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
Gazza being Gazza would be like flying around the hotel | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
and Terry would be like, "David, take him fishing, calm him down, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
"he's getting hyper." We'd get in my car and we got to the off-licence | 0:28:13 | 0:28:17 | |
and get a couple of beers. Gazza got in the car and opened his beer, | 0:28:17 | 0:28:20 | |
popped a tablet and had a swig. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:22 | |
I was like, "What was that?" | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
He was like, "It's a sleeper." | 0:28:24 | 0:28:25 | |
"What you taking that for?" | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
He said, "I want to fight the tablet." | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
I was like, "What?!" | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
We went onto the lake and we were trout fishing | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
and he saw this fish rising | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
and he's just gone straight off the jetty into the lake, | 0:28:38 | 0:28:42 | |
in his full England trackie. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:43 | |
He's like, "Help me, help me!" | 0:28:43 | 0:28:45 | |
"Get closer, I'll get you." | 0:28:45 | 0:28:46 | |
Pulls him out and said, | 0:28:46 | 0:28:47 | |
"I'm going fishing, I'll leave you to it." | 0:28:47 | 0:28:50 | |
The next thing, I looked back two minutes later | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
and he was fast asleep. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:53 | |
-Well, the sleeper worked. -Yeah, the sleeper won. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
Look at that! Crazy golf, isn't it, we're playing here? | 0:29:00 | 0:29:03 | |
I can't remember having a drink during the competition. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:07 | |
-Yeah. -It was only when we got knocked out | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
and then we all went back to the bar and we were all very, very deflated. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:13 | |
We just had a solemn drink between us, the whole group. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:18 | |
That is all I can remember. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:19 | |
I can only remember having that drink during the tournament. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
With the characters we had, | 0:29:22 | 0:29:23 | |
I'm pretty sure we must've had one or two but not a lot. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
-Not during the tournament. -But it is 20 years ago, right? | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
I mean, we're not talking about last week, are we? | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
Absolutely, yeah. And we're getting on. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
# That's life | 0:29:34 | 0:29:36 | |
# That's what all the people say | 0:29:36 | 0:29:40 | |
# Da-da-dee-dee-dee-dee... # | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
After that Scotland game, was that the first time | 0:29:43 | 0:29:45 | |
you were able to go back to the hotel and start thinking, | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
"You know what, I really believe we can win this tournament?" | 0:29:48 | 0:29:51 | |
-Yeah, I did. -Did you? -I felt it all the way through. | 0:29:51 | 0:29:54 | |
Tell me about your relationship with Terry Venables. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:57 | |
Was it him that you signed for at Spurs? | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
He said, "If you sign for me, | 0:30:00 | 0:30:02 | |
"you're playing for England in ten games." | 0:30:02 | 0:30:04 | |
He was right, you know? It was all the time he used to... | 0:30:04 | 0:30:08 | |
When I was getting on his nerves he used to tell me to go running | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
for a little bit and kick the ball about. You know... | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
He knew when to put us on. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
Sometimes I knew I had a great game and he'd say, "You were crap today." | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
And then when I played crap, he'd tell us I was brilliant. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:22 | |
So you couldn't work him out. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:24 | |
I think Terry Venables was one of those who could be one of the lads | 0:30:24 | 0:30:29 | |
but yet there was a fine line how far you could take him. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
For me, from a football point of view, he simplified things. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
He gave you that kind of mentality that you wanted to win for him. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:39 | |
He was brilliant. Every time we'd watch all these different teams | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
and then he would always show Holland. He always said, | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
"The Holland game is going to be the key game." | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
Yeah. He was right. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
CHEERING | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
That journey from the hotel to Wembley was special, wasn't it? | 0:30:57 | 0:31:02 | |
-With fans lining the streets. -Exactly. Incredible. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
Then to go in and put in a performance like that, | 0:31:05 | 0:31:08 | |
it was, for me, | 0:31:08 | 0:31:10 | |
that was the best atmosphere I've ever played in in my life. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:13 | |
That performance and that night against a team of Holland's calibre | 0:31:13 | 0:31:18 | |
-was something special, wasn't it? -Yes, it was. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:21 | |
This is where we were also saying, | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
"What we need to do is to set the fans on fire, really." | 0:31:24 | 0:31:28 | |
They are looking for a proper performance | 0:31:28 | 0:31:31 | |
and that is exactly what we gave them. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:34 | |
So far England have rewritten the cliche about the game of two halves. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
England have played for two halves but in two games. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
Our partnership just worked, didn't it? | 0:31:43 | 0:31:45 | |
You knew my game, I knew your game. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:46 | |
I think clever players try and make it work, don't they? | 0:31:46 | 0:31:50 | |
-If you see... -That's the first time | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
I've been described as clever, by the way! | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
-I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about me! -All right, OK. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:57 | |
McManaman doesn't have too much support at the moment. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
Anderton is the most likely going forward. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
Here's Ince... | 0:32:05 | 0:32:07 | |
Penalty! | 0:32:07 | 0:32:08 | |
England lead. | 0:32:13 | 0:32:15 | |
Everyone was a ten out of ten, weren't they? | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
Yeah. We had to be. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
McManaman right in front of the goalkeeper. | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
Goal! | 0:32:25 | 0:32:27 | |
Terry Sheringham makes it 2-0 to England. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:32 | |
You could have had another goal, really, but you decided | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
-to side pass it to me, didn't you? -You tell me about that. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
I mean, I've had a lot of comments over the years | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
that, "Would Shearer have passed to you?" | 0:32:40 | 0:32:43 | |
I said, "No chance. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:44 | |
"I don't know what I was doing passing to him." | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
-You explain the situation. -No way I would have passed that to him. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:50 | |
McManaman. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:51 | |
Gascoigne. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:54 | |
Sheringham waits. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:56 | |
Shearer! | 0:32:56 | 0:32:57 | |
Easy goal. You still put it in off the post. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:02 | |
It wasn't that easy, come on. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
-It wasn't that easy. -My mum could have scored that. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:08 | |
A little side-footer in the corner. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:09 | |
You had to blast it. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:11 | |
That's what you did, you blasted it. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
And you have to say it's magnificent. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:16 | |
'I used an identical line that described Maradona's' | 0:33:16 | 0:33:21 | |
brilliant goal against England in '86. | 0:33:21 | 0:33:24 | |
"You have to say that was magnificent." | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
And it was. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:29 | |
That's Anderton. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:31 | |
And Sheringham! | 0:33:31 | 0:33:33 | |
It's four. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:34 | |
That was the best performance I'd ever seen from England. | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
-Is that right? -Yeah. -The best performance? | 0:33:40 | 0:33:42 | |
The best performance I'd ever seen from an England team. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
The performance was just brilliant, the way the goals went. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:48 | |
-Even the one I let in meant that... -You let it in, didn't you? -Oh, yeah. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:51 | |
Straight through my legs. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
He's going, "Not really." | 0:33:53 | 0:33:54 | |
England go into the quarterfinals on a high. | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
You were quoted after the game as saying that night was perfection. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:05 | |
It was perfection. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:06 | |
It was super special. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:08 | |
I'm the first to say well done to the players. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
But just when you think you got things licked in this game, | 0:34:10 | 0:34:13 | |
it can smack you in the face. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:15 | |
Were you talking about it? | 0:34:15 | 0:34:16 | |
-Do players sit and say, "We can win this"? -Yeah, definitely. | 0:34:16 | 0:34:19 | |
There was a feel-good factor, there was an arrogance, | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
a confidence. We were locked away in our hotel. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
We didn't have a clue about the atmosphere outside the hotel. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
We didn't know what was going on in the country. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:31 | |
The atmosphere in the country and in London was incredible. | 0:34:31 | 0:34:34 | |
There was a sense in the '90s | 0:34:34 | 0:34:36 | |
that this country had a brighter or sunnier, | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
more technicoloured thing going on. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
There was Britpop and Brit Art | 0:34:42 | 0:34:44 | |
-and all that sort of stuff. -And football. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:46 | |
And with less than two hours to go before England take on Spain | 0:34:46 | 0:34:49 | |
in the Euro 96 quarterfinal, | 0:34:49 | 0:34:51 | |
thousands of fans have been pouring into Wembley. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:54 | |
Before 96, an England game could be a scary place to be. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:59 | |
The worst hooligans from every club in the country | 0:34:59 | 0:35:02 | |
would go and watch England | 0:35:02 | 0:35:04 | |
and the only chanting I remember, that I could repeat, | 0:35:04 | 0:35:08 | |
is like "no surrender to the IRA". Stuff like that. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:10 | |
I mean, really quite dark, scary stuff. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:14 | |
I would say it started to change in 1990. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
1996 in a lovely way was the kind of apex | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
of a new way of going to a football game. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
It still stands out, Euro 96, | 0:35:22 | 0:35:24 | |
as the last event that we had that the nation could come together with. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:29 | |
CHEERING | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
Not for 30 years has there been such expectancy. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:39 | |
THEY GREET EACH OTHER IN SPANISH | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
Hey! Mi amigo! | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
El mejor persono in el mondo. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
You were El Tel, that was how you were known in the media, in England | 0:35:56 | 0:35:59 | |
when you went over to Barcelona. | 0:35:59 | 0:36:01 | |
Visca el Barca! | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
Did you fall in love with the place? | 0:36:03 | 0:36:05 | |
Barcelona, or Spain in general? | 0:36:05 | 0:36:07 | |
Well, Spain in general, really. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:09 | |
-Yeah. -You know all about Spanish football. -I do. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
I was there for three years and I know all about Javier Clemente. | 0:36:12 | 0:36:14 | |
He was manager of Espanyol when I was at Barcelona. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:17 | |
We've had a few run-ins and he's a tough cookie. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:20 | |
You knew the Spanish manager very well, and he said, | 0:36:20 | 0:36:24 | |
"They are either going to do this or going to play like that, | 0:36:24 | 0:36:27 | |
"and maybe like that." | 0:36:27 | 0:36:28 | |
They didn't do any of the three. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
Yes, we've had a practice of penalties, too. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:32 | |
In training we've got no problem getting five. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
Everyone wants to take them. When the pressure is on, we'll see. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
Do you think that we turned up expecting to win? | 0:36:37 | 0:36:41 | |
I don't know. It seemed weird. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
I just seem to remember me having lots to do. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
We had a bit of luck as well, | 0:36:46 | 0:36:47 | |
cos they had a goal disallowed that was a legal goal. | 0:36:47 | 0:36:50 | |
Shearer! | 0:36:52 | 0:36:53 | |
And it is to be a penalty competition. | 0:36:55 | 0:36:58 | |
No golden goal. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:00 | |
What's your thoughts when you were walking towards the goal? | 0:37:00 | 0:37:04 | |
You're on your own then, aren't you? | 0:37:04 | 0:37:05 | |
Yeah. Do you know what, what I really think? | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
"Chance of glory." | 0:37:07 | 0:37:09 | |
Shearer against Zubizarreta. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:12 | |
England lead. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:17 | |
Even though we'd started to think after Holland that we could win it, | 0:37:18 | 0:37:22 | |
-certainly... -Penalties... | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
What we probably thought we couldn't do was win a penalty shoot-out. | 0:37:24 | 0:37:27 | |
We could win a tournament but not a penalty shoot-out. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:29 | |
England stay in front. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
-Advantage us. -Yeah. | 0:37:35 | 0:37:36 | |
Then it was important that the next penalty-taker scores, | 0:37:36 | 0:37:40 | |
because then it really establishes a lead. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:42 | |
I remember being at the side of the goal looking back | 0:37:44 | 0:37:47 | |
thinking, "Who's coming down now?", | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
and I see Pearcy and I'm like, "Oh, my God." | 0:37:49 | 0:37:51 | |
A brave man steps forward to take England's third. | 0:37:53 | 0:37:56 | |
I've never wanted anybody to score a penalty more than at that moment. | 0:37:56 | 0:38:01 | |
Everyone knew what it meant, to him particularly. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:04 | |
For that moment it's like watching a drama, | 0:38:04 | 0:38:07 | |
this one bloke's battle against that memory. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
Banish the memory of Turin. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
Stuart Pearce. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
Oh, yes, what a penalty! | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
And the relief belongs not only to this championship | 0:38:21 | 0:38:24 | |
but to the World Cup of 1990. | 0:38:24 | 0:38:27 | |
'Stuart in his book had a bit of a go at me. | 0:38:27 | 0:38:31 | |
'He said I had overplayed his reaction.' | 0:38:31 | 0:38:35 | |
Now, I mean, just look at the pictures. | 0:38:35 | 0:38:38 | |
Did 1990 go through your mind? | 0:38:38 | 0:38:40 | |
Not today, but it has done many a time before. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
He has to score. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:47 | |
And doesn't. England are through! | 0:38:51 | 0:38:54 | |
I get up and I don't realise that that's the deciding penalty. | 0:38:55 | 0:38:58 | |
And then I see all the lads running towards me. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:01 | |
"We got it right!" | 0:39:01 | 0:39:03 | |
We realised that we'd got through to the semifinals. | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
We moved onto Incy's bar in the hotel. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:09 | |
I met David Seaman at a film premiere about a year after Euro 96 | 0:39:12 | 0:39:16 | |
and he said, "Frank, can I ask you a question? | 0:39:16 | 0:39:20 | |
"Who's Jules Rimet?" | 0:39:20 | 0:39:21 | |
How confident were you with a team or a squad like that | 0:39:28 | 0:39:31 | |
that we could do well? | 0:39:31 | 0:39:33 | |
Well, you want the big attitudes, | 0:39:33 | 0:39:36 | |
the guys who are not going to blow up | 0:39:36 | 0:39:39 | |
or going to be frightened of this. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:42 | |
If you've got captains, you've got leaders, | 0:39:42 | 0:39:44 | |
you've got guys that will take the rest over the cliff. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:47 | |
That was the biggest thing. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
If I could have all captains, I think to myself, | 0:39:49 | 0:39:53 | |
"The others will follow on." | 0:39:53 | 0:39:55 | |
I looked around the changing room and I thought, "Wow, | 0:39:55 | 0:39:58 | |
"we've got fantastic players here. We've got leaders." | 0:39:58 | 0:40:01 | |
So when things go wrong, we know we can come together. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:04 | |
Tony was without doubt my toughest opponent. | 0:40:04 | 0:40:06 | |
I think he's the best centre half I ever played against. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
You knew what you were going to get from him. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:11 | |
Totally. We played together for so long. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:13 | |
It was great for Tony for what he was going through | 0:40:13 | 0:40:16 | |
and the way he has now looked after himself. | 0:40:16 | 0:40:20 | |
-Yeah. -And just to get so close, it's just so frustrating! | 0:40:20 | 0:40:25 | |
ORCHESTRA TUNES UP | 0:40:28 | 0:40:30 | |
Hello again. Glad you've tuned in. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:35 | |
You've obviously heard there's a football match on tonight. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:38 | |
England against Germany, the second semifinal of Euro 96. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:41 | |
Sporting history waiting to be made. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:43 | |
ORCHESTRA STARTS PLAYING "Football's Coming Home" | 0:40:43 | 0:40:46 | |
In the space of a few weeks, we'd gone from a national disgrace | 0:40:46 | 0:40:50 | |
to being on the verge of winning the tournament. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:52 | |
By that point, we knew that everyone was behind us. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:55 | |
That semifinal remains the biggest game I've ever played in. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
The atmosphere and the build-up was just indescribable. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:02 | |
I'll never forget it. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:06 | |
I still get goose bumps just thinking about it. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:08 | |
English and German football fans are gathering at Wembley | 0:41:12 | 0:41:15 | |
for this evening's Euro 96 semifinal. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:17 | |
I think it was a real sense that that was essentially the final, | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
because if we beat Germany, we can beat the Czech Republic. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:24 | |
This is always a special event, isn't it? | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
It's always a bit more than a football match. | 0:41:28 | 0:41:30 | |
England are on their way to Wembley, | 0:41:30 | 0:41:32 | |
and the winners there will play the Czech Republic. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:34 | |
The England team know what they have to do - | 0:41:34 | 0:41:36 | |
exactly the same as their predecessors in 1966. | 0:41:36 | 0:41:39 | |
It's great to be English, isn't it? | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
I mean, we really want to give them something. | 0:41:43 | 0:41:47 | |
It's one of those moments where football becomes something else. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:51 | |
Like no drama, no film, nothing. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
Wembley will be packed tonight | 0:41:54 | 0:41:55 | |
and millions more will watch in pubs and living rooms across the nation. | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
I think for a long while | 0:41:58 | 0:41:59 | |
we've not been feeling too good about ourselves in this country | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
for many different reasons | 0:42:02 | 0:42:04 | |
and it's wonderful to see people being thrilled at an event. | 0:42:04 | 0:42:08 | |
The expectancy levels were up from all the crowd | 0:42:08 | 0:42:11 | |
and I think everybody in the country wanted us to win. | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
It was a great time to be an English fan. | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
We were playing well, we'd got a chance for a change. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:24 | |
-"Come on, let's go and do it." -"Let's do it," yeah. | 0:42:24 | 0:42:27 | |
ORCHESTRA PLAYS MEDLEY OF ENGLISH SONGS | 0:42:27 | 0:42:30 | |
It was a very special, very special evening. | 0:42:55 | 0:42:58 | |
I was... | 0:42:58 | 0:43:00 | |
The heart still beats pretty hard over it. | 0:43:01 | 0:43:04 | |
Alan Shearer! | 0:43:14 | 0:43:16 | |
CHEERING | 0:43:16 | 0:43:18 | |
Wonderful start. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:20 | |
His fifth goal in his fifth match. | 0:43:20 | 0:43:23 | |
They can't quite believe it on the bench. In the European Championship. | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
When you scored, I remember | 0:43:28 | 0:43:29 | |
you running off with your hand up like that. | 0:43:29 | 0:43:31 | |
I thought, "Oh, my God. We are, we're going to win this." | 0:43:31 | 0:43:34 | |
England taking the lead in two minutes and 15 seconds. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:39 | |
The chant, "It's coming home, it's coming home..." | 0:43:39 | 0:43:42 | |
That peaked when you scored against Germany. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:45 | |
I could hear people singing it as fast as they could sing it. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:49 | |
Just so fast that they could actually bring it home. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:52 | |
This is Moller for Germany. | 0:43:52 | 0:43:54 | |
Helmer. | 0:43:56 | 0:43:57 | |
Kuntz - it's 1-1! | 0:43:57 | 0:43:59 | |
CHEERING | 0:43:59 | 0:44:01 | |
Their goal seemed to happen so fast. | 0:44:02 | 0:44:05 | |
It was in the box and then a couple of touches, | 0:44:05 | 0:44:08 | |
bang, in the goal. I was like, "Whoa." | 0:44:08 | 0:44:10 | |
Well, it was a fierce contest. | 0:44:10 | 0:44:12 | |
It was a great contest and they are always hard to beat | 0:44:12 | 0:44:15 | |
and they keep going until the end. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:17 | |
That's why you've got to match them and some. | 0:44:17 | 0:44:19 | |
WHISTLE BLOWS | 0:44:19 | 0:44:21 | |
So it's extra time... | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
with the first to score going through. | 0:44:25 | 0:44:28 | |
I thought golden goal was actually incredibly exciting. | 0:44:28 | 0:44:31 | |
Can I tell you something? They abandoned it because | 0:44:31 | 0:44:33 | |
they were worried that teams | 0:44:33 | 0:44:35 | |
would just seize up in golden goal and not play. | 0:44:35 | 0:44:37 | |
That's absolutely not what you did. | 0:44:37 | 0:44:39 | |
Platt. | 0:44:39 | 0:44:41 | |
McManaman. | 0:44:41 | 0:44:43 | |
Anderton waits... | 0:44:43 | 0:44:45 | |
And it hits the post and it goes straight back to Kopke. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:48 | |
How unlucky can you get? | 0:44:48 | 0:44:50 | |
Terry Venables and Bryan Robson cannot believe that. | 0:44:52 | 0:44:55 | |
I've never seen two sides who were both prepared to grab the golden goal. | 0:44:55 | 0:45:01 | |
It was attack, attack, attack. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:03 | |
It's curling, and it's in! | 0:45:06 | 0:45:08 | |
No, a push. | 0:45:08 | 0:45:09 | |
A push. It's not going to be allowed. | 0:45:09 | 0:45:12 | |
Goodness me! | 0:45:12 | 0:45:15 | |
Can you remember my shot late on in the golden-goal time and Gazza had | 0:45:15 | 0:45:20 | |
the other half...? | 0:45:20 | 0:45:22 | |
Do I remember it? | 0:45:22 | 0:45:23 | |
Every night I dream about it. | 0:45:23 | 0:45:25 | |
-Still? -Oh, God. | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
Sheringham. | 0:45:27 | 0:45:29 | |
Looks for Shearer. | 0:45:29 | 0:45:31 | |
Who loses his man... Gascoigne! | 0:45:31 | 0:45:33 | |
I don't believe it! | 0:45:33 | 0:45:35 | |
Just couldn't get the left to it. | 0:45:37 | 0:45:39 | |
The goal was yawning at his mercy. | 0:45:39 | 0:45:41 | |
When I spoke to him afterwards, I was like, "What happened?" | 0:45:41 | 0:45:44 | |
He said, "I thought the goalie was going to touch it. | 0:45:44 | 0:45:47 | |
"I was waiting for the flick," and that stopped him. | 0:45:47 | 0:45:51 | |
Everybody always goes on about the cross. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:53 | |
If it was the other way around, you would have scored. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:56 | |
I would've been devastated. | 0:45:56 | 0:45:58 | |
-We should've scored. -Definitely. | 0:45:58 | 0:46:01 | |
I thought the keeper was going to get a touch. | 0:46:01 | 0:46:03 | |
-COMMENTATOR: -One last attempt for England. No, it's cut off. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:06 | |
Once again, a contest between England and Germany, | 0:46:06 | 0:46:10 | |
as six years ago in the World Cup, | 0:46:10 | 0:46:13 | |
has to be decided in a penalty competition. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:16 | |
It's a strange situation, penalties, isn't it? | 0:46:19 | 0:46:21 | |
I mean, you know if you miss a penalty for England you're going to | 0:46:21 | 0:46:25 | |
be remembered for missing a penalty. | 0:46:25 | 0:46:27 | |
Shearer... | 0:46:28 | 0:46:30 | |
..opens the penalty competition. | 0:46:32 | 0:46:34 | |
England 1-0. | 0:46:34 | 0:46:36 | |
Beautiful penalty. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:41 | |
David Platt. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:48 | |
2-1 England. | 0:46:48 | 0:46:50 | |
Squares it at 2-2. | 0:46:51 | 0:46:54 | |
I literally watched ten perfect penalties to begin with. | 0:46:54 | 0:46:58 | |
I remember thinking, "Get us through to the final," | 0:46:58 | 0:47:02 | |
and then hardly getting anywhere near their spot kicks. | 0:47:02 | 0:47:06 | |
I think I put my hand to one of them. | 0:47:06 | 0:47:09 | |
It was so hard it still went in. | 0:47:09 | 0:47:11 | |
All of the others went down the side of the post and stuff. | 0:47:11 | 0:47:13 | |
I remembered feeling like I didn't have a chance. | 0:47:14 | 0:47:17 | |
Teddy Sheringham. England's last of the five. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:21 | |
Yes! | 0:47:23 | 0:47:24 | |
England lead 5-4. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:29 | |
It's going to be Stefan Kuntz who steps forward. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:35 | |
Has to score. | 0:47:35 | 0:47:36 | |
And does. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:38 | |
Couldn't get a sudden-death goal in extra time. | 0:47:41 | 0:47:44 | |
We're moving on now to sudden death. | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
It's easy to say it now, but I did... | 0:47:47 | 0:47:50 | |
I was worried about it, | 0:47:50 | 0:47:51 | |
the first penalty that I really felt worried about. | 0:47:51 | 0:47:54 | |
Prayers being offered this time. | 0:47:57 | 0:47:59 | |
Gareth Southgate. | 0:47:59 | 0:48:02 | |
Did you ever think there were more experienced players to take a penalty? | 0:48:04 | 0:48:09 | |
Yes, I did think so. | 0:48:10 | 0:48:12 | |
I think he was asked, "Do you want a penalty?" | 0:48:12 | 0:48:15 | |
It was like a response of, "Yeah, I've got to at some stage. | 0:48:15 | 0:48:19 | |
"Of course, I'll take one." "Right, you're sixth, then." | 0:48:19 | 0:48:22 | |
I don't think he really would have put himself up to be the sixth | 0:48:22 | 0:48:25 | |
-penalty taker. -How did we get to Gareth? | 0:48:25 | 0:48:27 | |
Was he always on the list or did you decide there and then? | 0:48:27 | 0:48:31 | |
No, no, he had a good temperament and he was the first one | 0:48:31 | 0:48:34 | |
to volunteer, because no-one really wanted it. | 0:48:34 | 0:48:38 | |
It was a little bit up in the air and on the floor and looking over there. | 0:48:38 | 0:48:42 | |
"Can I see your face?" You know? | 0:48:42 | 0:48:44 | |
But...you know what it's like. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:48 | |
Wasn't there someone who I thought should have taken one that didn't? | 0:48:48 | 0:48:51 | |
-I can't remember now. -I think if there's a striker on the pitch and a | 0:48:51 | 0:48:53 | |
defender is going up and missing a penalty, | 0:48:53 | 0:48:55 | |
you're blaming the striker as much as the guy who's missed. | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
Was there someone, Alan? | 0:48:58 | 0:49:01 | |
-Was it Paul Ince or...? -I think it was. | 0:49:01 | 0:49:03 | |
The penalty takers are named and you're not in to take a penalty - | 0:49:03 | 0:49:08 | |
-was there a reason for that? -It was a strange one. | 0:49:08 | 0:49:10 | |
I think... I've never really spoken about this. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:13 | |
I've never myself been a penalty taker, let alone a goal-scorer. | 0:49:13 | 0:49:16 | |
I remembered El Tel saying, bang, bang, bang, so and so. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:22 | |
Teddy, yourself. | 0:49:22 | 0:49:24 | |
He said to Southey, "You're sixth or seventh." | 0:49:24 | 0:49:27 | |
I was going after Southey. I'm quite glad he missed, to be fair. | 0:49:27 | 0:49:31 | |
I'm joking! | 0:49:32 | 0:49:34 | |
People look back and say, "why didn't you take a penalty?" | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
I could have been six or seven. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:40 | |
If I'd been six, who knows what might have happened. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:42 | |
-COMMENTATOR: -Prayers being offered this time. | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
Gareth Southgate. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:49 | |
Oh, no! | 0:49:52 | 0:49:54 | |
# Just a perfect day | 0:50:09 | 0:50:13 | |
# Drink Sangria in the park... # | 0:50:13 | 0:50:16 | |
You have to save for us to... to stay in there. | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
Yeah, and I just remember getting nowhere near it. | 0:50:20 | 0:50:23 | |
As soon as Moller scored his penalty, | 0:50:29 | 0:50:32 | |
that's it, that's the end of the tournament. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:35 | |
You've got to go home now. No, no, no, we're enjoying ourselves. | 0:50:35 | 0:50:39 | |
I wanted to carry on. Let us play a bit more. | 0:50:39 | 0:50:42 | |
No, that's it, you're out. You've got to go. | 0:50:42 | 0:50:44 | |
# Oh, it's such a perfect day | 0:50:47 | 0:50:51 | |
# I'm glad I spent it with you | 0:50:51 | 0:50:56 | |
# Oh, such a perfect day | 0:50:56 | 0:51:01 | |
# You just keep me hanging on | 0:51:02 | 0:51:05 | |
# You just keep me hanging on... # | 0:51:05 | 0:51:10 | |
Alan, you felt so sorry for Gareth Southgate. | 0:51:10 | 0:51:14 | |
-Terry was brilliant. -I just went and said... Cos his face, it went... | 0:51:14 | 0:51:18 | |
It hit him. It's unfair to actually get that sort of torment. | 0:51:18 | 0:51:24 | |
I just said, "It's OK. Everyone is fine. Don't worry. | 0:51:24 | 0:51:27 | |
"You know, you've done your best. | 0:51:27 | 0:51:30 | |
"You've been brilliant. Come on, you need to keep your head up." | 0:51:30 | 0:51:34 | |
It was horrible. It was horrible because we really did think you | 0:51:37 | 0:51:41 | |
guys were going to win. We absolutely believed it. | 0:51:41 | 0:51:44 | |
We kept saying, "This is our perfect summer." | 0:51:44 | 0:51:46 | |
Remember this. Savour every moment. | 0:51:46 | 0:51:50 | |
It was all set, it was going to happen. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:54 | |
# Oh, it's such a perfect day | 0:51:54 | 0:51:59 | |
# I'm glad I spent it with... # | 0:51:59 | 0:52:00 | |
There was hooliganism in Trafalgar Square that night. | 0:52:00 | 0:52:04 | |
It was like, as soon as we were out, the whole perfect summer crumbled. | 0:52:04 | 0:52:09 | |
# You just keep me hanging on | 0:52:09 | 0:52:12 | |
# You just keep me hanging on... # | 0:52:12 | 0:52:18 | |
Any regrets at all about the tournament? | 0:52:19 | 0:52:21 | |
Would you do anything different? | 0:52:21 | 0:52:23 | |
I don't think we'll ever have a better chance of winning a major | 0:52:23 | 0:52:26 | |
-competition. -We would have won it, do you think, if we got through on those penalties? | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
Ifs and buts again, mate. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:32 | |
No good, are they? | 0:52:32 | 0:52:33 | |
It's a pretty sombre bus on the way back to the hotel. | 0:52:33 | 0:52:37 | |
We had a few beers that night. | 0:52:37 | 0:52:38 | |
We had quite a few! | 0:52:38 | 0:52:39 | |
Can you imagine what it would have been like if we beat them? | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
England's former soccer captain Tony Adams has admitted that he's | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
an alcoholic. He says he's on the road to recovery. | 0:52:46 | 0:52:49 | |
Adams says his problem became serious after the team's semifinal defeat. | 0:52:49 | 0:52:54 | |
I'm not living a lie any more, which is great. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
I feel a lot better for it. | 0:52:56 | 0:52:58 | |
And it's... | 0:52:58 | 0:53:00 | |
England having gone out at the semifinal, for a lot of the nation, | 0:53:05 | 0:53:10 | |
that was a bit of an anticlimax, the final. | 0:53:10 | 0:53:12 | |
An understatement, that, John. | 0:53:12 | 0:53:13 | |
This to win it. | 0:53:26 | 0:53:28 | |
Never a doubt. | 0:53:31 | 0:53:33 | |
Run around the course, eh? | 0:53:34 | 0:53:36 | |
Great memories looking back, | 0:53:38 | 0:53:40 | |
-talking about it with the public that came up. -Still now, isn't it? | 0:53:40 | 0:53:45 | |
-Yeah. -20 years on. -Yeah. I love it, I love it. | 0:53:45 | 0:53:48 | |
People come up, "I hope I'm not boring you, talking about Euro 96." | 0:53:48 | 0:53:52 | |
Tell me about it, tell me about your scenario. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:54 | |
Tell me about it and we'll relive it for a couple of minutes. | 0:53:54 | 0:53:57 | |
Youngsters, of course, don't remember it too much but | 0:53:57 | 0:54:01 | |
their fathers tell them all about it, that sort of thing. | 0:54:01 | 0:54:04 | |
I... But it is, they do come up and say it was the best feeling they've ever had. | 0:54:04 | 0:54:10 | |
It's just a shame of that... | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
It just wasn't to be. | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
-Do you ever think what could have been? -Do I? Of course I do. | 0:54:16 | 0:54:20 | |
I think to myself, | 0:54:20 | 0:54:22 | |
"Things have turned out all right." | 0:54:22 | 0:54:25 | |
It could have been... | 0:54:26 | 0:54:28 | |
It could have been better. | 0:54:28 | 0:54:30 | |
I'm very... As I said before, you can't take it away from me. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:34 | |
So football's your whole life? | 0:54:36 | 0:54:37 | |
Yes. | 0:54:37 | 0:54:39 | |
-You want it to go on being your whole life? -Yes. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:41 | |
I'll stick with it for the rest of my life. | 0:54:42 | 0:54:45 | |
I hope that everybody else had a pretty good time | 0:54:45 | 0:54:49 | |
and maybe we'll do it in the future. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:52 | |
We couldn't have had more support and we're all in it together. | 0:54:57 | 0:55:01 | |
Not just the players, but the fans and... | 0:55:01 | 0:55:04 | |
we win together and we lose together. | 0:55:04 | 0:55:06 | |
-I see Tony. -Yeah. | 0:55:15 | 0:55:17 | |
We don't really reminisce about it. | 0:55:17 | 0:55:20 | |
When you're there and you've done it, you're like, that's him there. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:24 | |
We know what we had... | 0:55:24 | 0:55:26 | |
-And Gazza? -Gazza, yes. | 0:55:26 | 0:55:27 | |
I do keep in touch with him a little bit. | 0:55:27 | 0:55:30 | |
You see what Gazza is going through. It is sad. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:33 | |
I thought Gazza was the best English player I ever saw. | 0:55:33 | 0:55:36 | |
I thought he had everything. | 0:55:36 | 0:55:38 | |
Is Gascoigne going to have a crack? He is, you know. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:41 | |
Ohhhh! I say. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:42 | |
Brilliant. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:45 | |
That is Schoolboys' Own stuff! | 0:55:47 | 0:55:49 | |
Oh, I bet even he can't believe it! | 0:55:52 | 0:55:54 | |
Oh, what an honour. | 0:55:57 | 0:55:59 | |
Thanks very much. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:00 | |
He became a hero, didn't he? | 0:56:00 | 0:56:02 | |
Lovely, thank you very much. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:14 | |
Cheers, mate. | 0:56:14 | 0:56:15 | |
Thanks, mate. Cheers. | 0:56:22 | 0:56:25 | |
-Enjoy tonight. -You too, mate. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:27 | |
For Gazza, that was... | 0:56:27 | 0:56:29 | |
-His high point, in fact. -Good point. | 0:56:29 | 0:56:31 | |
Gazza is complicated, to watch his progress. | 0:56:37 | 0:56:40 | |
You could tell he was a vulnerable bloke and that was one reason why you felt for him. | 0:56:40 | 0:56:44 | |
We always said that, didn't we? | 0:56:44 | 0:56:46 | |
We were worried for Gazza when he quit. | 0:56:46 | 0:56:48 | |
It felt like football was the one thing that kept him together. | 0:56:48 | 0:56:53 | |
You know, it's sort of proved to be true. | 0:56:53 | 0:56:55 | |
Please welcome on stage your very own Paul Gascoigne! Gazza! | 0:56:55 | 0:57:02 | |
Is Euro 96 a big part of what people want to talk to you about? | 0:57:05 | 0:57:10 | |
Yeah. I'm never going to get them times again, you know? | 0:57:10 | 0:57:13 | |
Do you still keep in contact with the lads from that time? | 0:57:13 | 0:57:17 | |
Yes, I speak to them and how they're getting on, | 0:57:17 | 0:57:19 | |
I just know whenever I meet them I get too excited. | 0:57:19 | 0:57:21 | |
I get myself in trouble again. | 0:57:21 | 0:57:23 | |
For me, I find it sometimes really hard in my life to go back | 0:57:23 | 0:57:27 | |
to the great times I had. I keep thinking to myself, "Well, | 0:57:27 | 0:57:30 | |
"I'm never going to have them times again." | 0:57:30 | 0:57:32 | |
Years ago I realised that when I played for Newcastle when I was 17, | 0:57:32 | 0:57:36 | |
and this is a stupid of me, this is how bad I was... | 0:57:36 | 0:57:39 | |
but when the season finished I went back to the Excelsior club. | 0:57:39 | 0:57:43 | |
-The season had finished and I started crying... -Clubbing? -Yeah. | 0:57:43 | 0:57:46 | |
The Gateshead. I started crying my eyes out. | 0:57:46 | 0:57:49 | |
My dad said, "What are you crying about?" | 0:57:49 | 0:57:51 | |
I said, "My career is finished." | 0:57:51 | 0:57:52 | |
He went, "No, you haven't. You're having a break for six weeks." | 0:57:52 | 0:57:55 | |
"No, I'm not going to play again." That's how bad I was even just then. | 0:57:55 | 0:57:58 | |
So, imagine what it was like for me when I bump into the lads and | 0:57:58 | 0:58:01 | |
just reminisce about the great times we had. | 0:58:01 | 0:58:03 | |
Then...some of the people and some of the press might try and | 0:58:03 | 0:58:07 | |
take a lot of the stuff away from us, but them things they can't. | 0:58:07 | 0:58:10 | |
Do you actually get together with the Euro 96 team? | 0:58:10 | 0:58:14 | |
Do you have reunions? | 0:58:14 | 0:58:15 | |
No, we don't have any reunions. | 0:58:15 | 0:58:18 | |
I think this is why it has been fantastic to go around for the last | 0:58:18 | 0:58:21 | |
12 months and speak to the guys and | 0:58:21 | 0:58:23 | |
-get their feelings, what they're doing now etc. -Yeah. | 0:58:23 | 0:58:26 | |
I like to think that you're all getting together and singing the song. | 0:58:26 | 0:58:29 | |
-That's what I like to think. -I'd like to see it. -That's what we should finish off with. | 0:58:29 | 0:58:33 | |
Once a year you gather around the dentist's chair. | 0:58:33 | 0:58:35 | |
Yeah. If you like, we could reshoot the video with you in it. | 0:58:35 | 0:58:38 | |
I've got to sign some footballs! Sorry! | 0:58:40 | 0:58:43 | |
MUSIC: A Design For Life by Manic Street Preachers | 0:58:45 | 0:58:50 | |
# Then work came and made us free | 0:58:50 | 0:58:53 | |
# What price now | 0:58:54 | 0:58:57 | |
# For a shallow piece of dignity? | 0:58:59 | 0:59:07 | |
# I wish I had a bottle | 0:59:10 | 0:59:13 | |
# Right here in my dirty face | 0:59:16 | 0:59:19 | |
# To wear the scars... # | 0:59:21 | 0:59:23 |