Alan Shearer's Euro 96: When Football Came Home


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Hello again, glad you have tuned in.

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You've obviously heard there is a football match on tonight,

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England against Germany, the second semifinal of Euro 96,

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sporting history waiting to be made.

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In everyone's life, there are moments when you look back

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and think, "What if?"

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Memories that keep you awake at night,

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replaying them over and over again.

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20 years ago, for one unforgettable summer,

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we shared so many of those moments together.

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Shearer loses his man... Gascoigne!

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What if?

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I don't believe it!

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This is unbelievable stuff.

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It's not a bad place it looks as if he's got here.

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He must have assembled a decent team in Euro 96.

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Think that's where he made all his money,

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off the back of us players, actually.

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-There is the man there. Look, there he is.

-Hey!

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-Hey!

-How are you doing?

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You haven't got a bad place here, have you?

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It's not bad, it's all right.

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You must have done something right in your life!

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-I don't know about that! Great to see you.

-Thank you.

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-Thanks for having us.

-Great that you've come.

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-Want to show us around?

-Of course.

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-So, how long have you been here?

-18 years.

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-Opened a year, actually open.

-How did you find this spot, then?

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It was because we were looking for something else and bumped into this.

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La Escondida.

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La Escondida.

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-What does that mean?

-Hideaway.

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-Retreat, is it, or something like that?

-Retreat, you've got it.

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-Keeps you going and out of trouble.

-Absolutely.

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Hopefully! This is the reception

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where everyone comes in and gets checked in

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with their passports...

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And a lovely glass of champagne on arrival.

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Glass of champagne on arrival.

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We go through here, the chefs there, four chefs.

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Good afternoon.

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-OK.

-Wow!

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-So...

-Where did it all go wrong? THEY LAUGH

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Yeah. It's a lovely view.

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Let's have a little wander around.

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In fact, I don't now where I am. I've only just got up!

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Euro 96 will be a landmark event in our sporting history,

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just as the World Cup finals were 30 years ago.

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Let's go, then. I'm going to take some money off you.

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Now, Group C.

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England.

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CHEERING

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So, you were at West Ham with Sam and then Stevenage,

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whatever happened, happened.

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Are you looking to get back into football?

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Well, if you'd have asked me four or five days after getting the sack,

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I'd have gone, "Sod that!"

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-What a game that is!

-Did you always think

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you were going to go into management?

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I always thought you were happier on the golf course.

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I feel like I'm a football man.

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That's all I ever wanted to do when I was a kid, growing up.

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I felt it was the right time.

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You played under some decent managers - Clough, Venables, Fergie.

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-Yeah.

-What did you take off those guys?

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Obviously not enough.

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Look at the old fella, straight up the middle.

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It's ugly, but I'll take it.

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With the start of the European Championship only 16 days away,

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team spirit and match fitness for some of his players

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is what he wants from this two-game tour to the Far East.

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-Hello!

-You all right? Nice to see you.

-How are you?

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-You all right?

-I'm very well, thanks.

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-Thanks very much for doing this.

-It's a pleasure.

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We don't remember anything.

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-I don't either, it's fine.

-It was a very long time ago.

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We have even got the old sofa for you, boys.

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-Did you recognise it?

-Just like the old days.

-Shall we sit on it?

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-You can sit on it.

-You sit here, don't you?

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APPLAUSE

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Hello and welcome to European Fantasy Football League.

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What are you guys up to now?

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I mainly beg on the street.

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Lots of stuff.

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We do... He lives in my road, by the way.

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-I think people think...

-Oh, right, still.

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Because we don't do a show together.

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Now that we have families,

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we thought we shouldn't be in the same house,

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otherwise it becomes a commune.

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In the Czech Republic game last Sunday,

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John Motson was particularly critical

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of the two strikers substituted by Germany.

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So, Bierhoff's got a short time to press his claims

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now that the two other strikers

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who started the match have both been taken off.

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Kuntz.

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LAUGHTER

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Fantasy Football, how did that come about?

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Whose idea was that? Because we've got the sofa there, as well,

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-the same sofa.

-We are sitting in the right order,

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this is how we always sat.

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The sofa has aged better than the three of us, hasn't it?

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Yeah, it certainly has, yeah. It has, it hasn't gained a pound.

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We got phoned up by the bloke who brought the actual game to Britain,

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and he said, "Could this be on the telly?"

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and we talked about it and thought, "Well, it could,

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"as long as basically it's a comedy show about football."

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We said, "Why don't we just make it a representation

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"of our own home life,

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"where we sit on the sofa, we watch football with beers..."

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He is an ex-alcoholic, so he wasn't actually drinking any beer.

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-You're never an ex-alcoholic.

-Sorry. But...

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I would drink beer,

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and then people would come round and watch football with us.

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I think, in the '90s, we were seen as being at the centre

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of a thing called the new lads culture.

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People get nostalgic about Euro 96, but not new lads.

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Now, it's really disgraced,

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just because the magazines had pictures

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of Liz Hurley in her underwear.

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Two of Britain's most popular pop groups

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have begun the biggest chart war in 30 years.

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# I'm a firestarter Twisted firestarter... #

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Pop group Take That have confirmed they are to split up.

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Damien Hirst has won this year's Turner Prize.

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# You'll never live like common people... #

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# Don't look back in anger I heard you say... #

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England have named their squad for the European Championship finals,

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which kick off at Wembley in 12 days' time.

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Would Fantasy Football work now?

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I think the show could exist. I mean, you know, the show...

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Could you get away now with what you did then?

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-Not Jason Lee, obviously...

-Well, one thing about...

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Yeah, there were some things.

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There was a player who played for Notts Forest called Jason Lee.

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Jason Lee was missing goals consistently

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and we featured all his misses in, like, montages and stuff.

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All his misses!

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-They make me sick!

-Yeah, they make me sick...

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Pineapple head? Was it the pineapple head?

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We wouldn't be able to get away with that,

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and maybe that's a good thing.

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But basically what we did do is we said on telly

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what people said on the terraces and stuff all the time.

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-How are you? Nice to see you.

-Nice dulcet tones!

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Exactly. Yeah, good.

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Good, nice to see you.

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-Good.

-'So what's life like now, then, as a hotel owner?

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'Stressful? What is it?'

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It's stressful, inasmuch as it is hard work.

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It can't be that hard work, you look unbelievable!

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For your age. You're doing something right.

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Steady! Steady!

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What would you be doing

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if you weren't going to be playing football all your life?

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Oh, I have no idea. It's all I can do!

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-Do you miss football?

-Yeah, of course.

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How can you not? I mean, it's...

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my life, it's always been my life,

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and always will be until there is no...

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Now, inside, inside, inside! You're still in contact!

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Imagine if we'd have won that tournament.

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-It would have been SIR Terry Venables.

-Oh, God.

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Do you look back at the tournament and think,

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"It is a tournament we should have won"?

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'Well, I just don't know how we didn't win it.

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'What we went through was something I've never experienced.'

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One of the best times of your life?

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Oh, without a doubt. I think the best.

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-THE best?

-Yeah, I would say so.

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Even after what you've achieved

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-with Barcelona and Tottenham and everywhere you've been?

-Well, yeah.

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It was a good career, going from Crystal Palace,

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Queens Park Rangers and getting higher and better.

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All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I thought someone was having a joke,

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you know? That Barcelona were very interested.

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But then when you get to England,

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it is always to do with your parents

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-and your grandparents and a special feeling.

-Proud moments, then?

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I think proud moments is right, yes.

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In '96, I was in the form of my life for Blackburn.

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I'd won the league the season before,

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but I hadn't scored for England for nearly two years.

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On top of that, Terry Venables had been forced to announce

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he would step down after Euro 96.

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We were all feeling the pressure of the competition on home soil.

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Within the last few minutes, police have confirmed

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that they are investigating allegations of damage to the plane

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that carried the England players back from Hong Kong.

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The police, the Football Association and the airline

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are all investigating the incident,

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which has prompted calls from some MPs

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to exclude any players involved from the team.

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Take you back to our little infamous trip to China and Hong Kong.

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-Yeah.

-Did you feel that the players let you down because of that episode

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-in that particular nightclub?

-No, no...

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Cos you'd given us a curfew.

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There were seven or eight players pictured...

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There were seven or eight who stayed back in the hotel.

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It was probably four or five that were out, who weren't pictured also.

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I was one of those guys.

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Did you ever feel that we'd let you down by actually going out?

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No, those were the things that make the difference,

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because you think you are in trouble and, all of a sudden,

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you've actually said, "No,

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"my job here and your job with me is to win the game.

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"However we win it, we win it."

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So you used the negative press to your advantage?

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Yeah, even some of the FA people were very unhappy with me.

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And I'm saying, "Well, fine, we'll talk about it later."

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The England squad has accepted collective responsibility

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for what happened.

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Did you feel we let him down in what we did in Hong Kong,

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or what you did? You were the ringleader!

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I wasn't, I wasn't.

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You were the one with your top off in the dentist's chair.

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I'm always there, but I'm never the ringleader.

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The guy who said he had his top off in the chair and everything, yeah.

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I was exactly the same at school, I was easily led, you know?

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And I just... I'm still the same, even now.

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The thing was they had permission to go out drinking and that is a fact.

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There were some supporters there, taking some photos, going,

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"Oh, there's the boys," you know?

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And then there was the problem that sort of sparked it off.

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Well, that's life.

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It was a great night.

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You know all the ripped shirts?

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I don't think it ever got out how that came about.

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I remember Bryan Robson coming over to us and went, "Be careful, lads."

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Someone came out from behind whoever he was talking to

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and went, "Shut up, Robbo!"

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and pulled the top down and ripped his top like that.

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And he sort of looked and went, "Oh..."

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-And he was the coach.

-And he was the coach.

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And then that escalated into a few others

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and then all hell broke loose

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and a couple more drinks and we looked a right shambles.

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And now you know why we never won the tournament!

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So, to the first match, England against Switzerland in Group A.

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Wembley, packed to the rafters, the atmosphere electric,

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the commentary from Barry Davies.

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The long wait is over.

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This is for real.

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Well, thanks very much, guys.

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You're both still commentating.

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How are you both, all well?

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I think so, yes. Voice is still fairly strong

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-and I think his is, too.

-We survive. We always have.

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-Yeah.

-The wider media wrote us off, I think.

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-Yes.

-So what were your opinions,

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when you saw what happened, what went on?

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As you said, you got hammered in more ways than one.

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-Yeah.

-But...

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How long did it take you to think that one up?!

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Not long. So it wasn't a favourable press,

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not when we went into the first game.

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-COMMENTARY:

-A new generation think that it is all about to begin.

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And it is now.

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I wanted to take you to golf, you wanted to take me fishing,

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so we've come for a romantic stroll in the park.

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This is more your scene, isn't it? Cool and calm.

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You've never been into management.

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You're one of the few of the squad that didn't.

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-Just never fancied it.

-Is that what has taken most of your time,

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the fishing or the golf or what?

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I love my fishing.

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You know, golf, I play off six, I play a bit of golf.

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We still ice skate.

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As you do.

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Turkyilmaz in the six yard area.

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That is well claimed.

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We were all under pressure,

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and it wasn't the greatest performance, was it?

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No, it wasn't, and I do remember feeling the pressure a lot,

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because of the fact it is at Wembley

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and all the stuff that had gone in the press.

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Oh, dear, here you go.

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Another wonderful morning at Escondida.

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I hadn't scored for almost two years, nearly 14 or 15 games.

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I remember!

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I remember it well as well!

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I was saying, "No, take it easy.

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"No, you've got to take it easy."

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"For God's sake, hurry up and score!"

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What you said to me was, "Whatever happens,

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"in between now and Euro 96 starting,

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"Alan, you will be my number nine,

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"you will start that first game."

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And I stood back from that

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and I thought, "Wow, for him to tell me that,

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"he doesn't half think a lot of me."

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It wasn't really a difficult decision for me.

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You're no good putting worry on to worry,

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because that is not going to help.

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We all know what happened from then on.

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Gascoigne.

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Shearer. Ince.

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Anderton right side.

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McManaman left side.

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Shearer clear... Scores!

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Well, wouldn't you know it?

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When it mattered, he knew where the goal was.

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How did it... I know how I felt when I scored, how did you feel?

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"You beauty!"

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They are holding up the lights on the board and it's Paul Gascoigne.

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You are hoping to play well, just to shut everybody up.

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And we didn't play that well, did we?

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No, I know. That was another penalty as well.

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Grassi... Blocked by the hands of Pearce and that is a penalty.

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It's going to be down to David Seaman to save the day.

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Turkyilmaz to take.

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And it is 1-1.

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Rolled it in.

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'That really didn't calm everyone down.

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'But everybody made comparisons with 30 years before.

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-Yeah. Uruguay.

-And I tell you what...

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England/Switzerland was a great deal better than England/Uruguay,

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which was a terrible game!

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-COMMENTARY:

-And the European Championship opens with a draw.

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We've got to get three points against Scotland

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and try and get something against Holland as well,

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to be sure of getting through.

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It'll be tough. We're going to have to play better than that.

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A little bit disappointed,

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but we're looking forward to the Scotland game.

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We've got a week to prepare for it.

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But don't write us off.

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I just don't know whether we expect too much

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from the manager and the quality of players that we have.

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Don't fans have a right to expect

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England to beat Switzerland at Wembley?

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Inventive, creative on the ball, he's England's best player.

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In open play, if anybody's going to make it happen,

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it's going to be Paul Gascoigne.

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But, after 50 minutes,

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he disappeared and England as an attacking force disappeared as well.

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We're on our way to see Gazza.

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He is doing a Q&A in Newcastle.

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He does 20 or 30 a year now, which is great for him.

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He's got to have an income.

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People, I think, have badly advised him, took advantage of him,

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because he is such a genuine and open and honest guy.

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His dream was to be a footballer.

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It was like mine. He was fortunate enough to make it as a footballer

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because of his talent.

0:16:530:16:55

He left here, the north-east, and went down to London,

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which many say was the downfall of him.

0:16:570:16:59

If he had gone to Manchester with Fergie,

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then that might have been slightly different.

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I probably agree with that.

0:17:030:17:05

I know he's had a bit of a tough time over the last few years.

0:17:070:17:10

When you look at some people, you hope the penny might drop.

0:17:100:17:14

And I hope daily and I pray daily that I don't wake up

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and hear that the worst has happened to Gazza

0:17:200:17:22

because the world would be a sadder place without him.

0:17:220:17:25

Do you miss football?

0:17:290:17:31

-Because you loved it, didn't you?

-Aye, definitely.

0:17:310:17:34

I really miss it badly, even today, you know?

0:17:340:17:37

I still wish I was playing.

0:17:370:17:38

I find it hard sometimes to watch games.

0:17:380:17:40

You're looking good.

0:17:400:17:42

Yeah, I'm not too bad. It's took us 20 years, like, but...

0:17:420:17:45

Is that all?

0:17:450:17:47

What's your memories of Hong Kong?

0:17:470:17:49

-I don't know.

-Just before '96?

0:17:490:17:51

I can't remember.

0:17:510:17:52

All I know is I went on some chair for a filling,

0:17:520:17:56

-my tooth was slack at the back.

-The dentist's chair.

0:17:560:17:58

Yeah. The dentist's chair, obviously...

0:17:580:18:00

It was my birthday as well, I know that, so...

0:18:000:18:03

Talk about celebrating your birthday!

0:18:030:18:05

Terry Venables, happy to face autograph hunters -

0:18:050:18:08

a welcome change from fending off a week of constant questions

0:18:080:18:12

yet again on fitness, nightclubs and alcohol.

0:18:120:18:15

The public pick up the paper,

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and they are going to believe all they're reading,

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and we're made out to have had a three-week party here.

0:18:190:18:23

A few beers, a good weekend, can't beat it.

0:18:290:18:32

I think the Scots felt this was their great chance.

0:18:320:18:34

They thought they could come to Wembley and really put up a show.

0:18:340:18:37

Paul Gascoigne is the talk of the town.

0:18:370:18:39

What will you be saying to him before this match?

0:18:390:18:41

Well, I've already spoken to him.

0:18:410:18:43

I just want him to relax and get his head around the game.

0:18:430:18:46

I mean, he's been doing that all week.

0:18:460:18:48

You've always had a special bond with him, haven't you?

0:18:480:18:51

Yeah, he's just beyond anything you would expect from his football,

0:18:510:18:56

from his cheek, from his audacity, from anything he could do.

0:18:560:19:00

I mean, he was a brilliant player.

0:19:000:19:01

That night, before the game against Scotland,

0:19:010:19:03

I couldn't sleep and I knocked on his door

0:19:030:19:05

and he went, "What do you want?" I went, "I'm worried."

0:19:050:19:08

And he went, "Sit down." And I went, "Yeah..."

0:19:080:19:10

He said, "What are you worried about?"

0:19:100:19:11

"I don't know if you're going to pick us tomorrow." "I'm not."

0:19:110:19:14

So I've got tears in my eyes, right?

0:19:140:19:16

I'm saying, "Please! I promise, I promise, I'll play well."

0:19:160:19:18

And he let this go for about 45 minutes,

0:19:180:19:20

and it's about a quarter past 11 and he went,

0:19:200:19:22

"Of course you're playing, now get to bed and sleep."

0:19:220:19:24

I think it's a chance for this English team

0:19:240:19:26

to show the nation that last Saturday was a one-off.

0:19:260:19:29

England have had their problems.

0:19:290:19:31

Have they got together as a group

0:19:310:19:32

and said, "Right, they have slated us, lads,

0:19:320:19:34

"let's go out and show them"?

0:19:340:19:35

We'd not played Scotland for ages, you know,

0:19:350:19:38

so there was that pressure.

0:19:380:19:40

Then there's the pressure that we actually needed to win.

0:19:400:19:42

Months of anticipation, building up to this moment

0:19:420:19:47

as Scotland in blue start the match.

0:19:470:19:50

Shouldn't be far away.

0:19:550:19:57

-Shearer is going one-up here.

-Cheeky!

0:19:570:19:59

It was a good game for us to play in the second game,

0:19:590:20:02

cos it made us get up for it.

0:20:020:20:05

-Teddy is nervous!

-I heard the footsteps, didn't I?

0:20:050:20:07

-Yeah, love it.

-Thought someone was going to come and jump on me.

0:20:070:20:10

Still don't think we played great again, though.

0:20:100:20:13

Shearer, one-up.

0:20:130:20:15

Oh, it's like that, is it?

0:20:150:20:16

It would have to be a fight.

0:20:180:20:20

Second-half was an excellent game against Scotland.

0:20:200:20:23

There was a point during the Scotland game

0:20:250:20:29

where I did think, "This is...

0:20:290:20:31

"Surely we can beat Scotland?"

0:20:310:20:32

Now McManaman, a bit of variety here by England.

0:20:320:20:36

Gascoigne in the penalty area.

0:20:360:20:38

This is Neville.

0:20:380:20:40

Oh, and there's Alan Shearer!

0:20:400:20:42

THEY CHEER

0:20:420:20:45

Alan Shearer scores for England!

0:20:450:20:47

His second goal of the tournament

0:20:470:20:50

and England are in front.

0:20:500:20:53

Shearer! Shearer!

0:20:530:20:55

We were winning 1-0 and then Tony Adams gives a penalty away.

0:20:550:21:00

The cross finds Durie.

0:21:000:21:01

Penalty! Penalty to Scotland.

0:21:010:21:05

Come on, was it you that saved the penalty

0:21:050:21:08

or was it Uri Geller moving the ball and everything else?

0:21:080:21:11

I'm sure Uri takes all the credit!

0:21:110:21:12

He repeated that bit of absolute nonsense on Fantasy Football.

0:21:120:21:17

Anyway, the McAlister penalty...

0:21:170:21:18

That was mind power of millions of English people,

0:21:180:21:21

wanting it to distract.

0:21:210:21:23

He was in a helicopter off the ground

0:21:230:21:25

-or something.

-Is that what he said?

0:21:250:21:27

Yeah, he was making the ball move for England.

0:21:270:21:29

You don't think it might just be

0:21:290:21:31

that Gary McAllister took a shit penalty?

0:21:310:21:33

As he ran up to the ball, I did see the ball just start rotating.

0:21:330:21:38

-Did you actually see it move?

-Yeah.

0:21:380:21:39

But then he must have seen it because he actually pinged it.

0:21:390:21:43

Oh, saved by Seaman!

0:21:450:21:47

THEY CHEER

0:21:470:21:51

Off we went down the wing, and then I remember, what,

0:21:510:21:53

about a minute later, Gazza scoring an unbelievable goal.

0:21:530:21:57

What do you think about Gazza's goal?

0:21:570:21:59

-Oh, it was a good one.

-A special one?

0:21:590:22:01

Yeah. Thanks for stealing all my glory, though! God!

0:22:010:22:03

Here's Gascoigne! Oh, brilliant!

0:22:060:22:08

Oh, yes! Oh, yes!

0:22:080:22:11

What a wonderful goal by Gascoigne!

0:22:160:22:19

What a pertinent answer to all his critics.

0:22:210:22:24

We loved all of you, but I think, with Gazza,

0:22:240:22:27

we really felt like we'd got someone.

0:22:270:22:29

And I remember I was saying, "Whoever scores, lads,

0:22:290:22:32

"do the dentist's chair."

0:22:320:22:34

And, you know, being an alcoholic, it had to be me.

0:22:340:22:36

And is that your favourite goal?

0:22:360:22:38

Yeah, because we were at home at Euro 96,

0:22:380:22:41

we'd got loads of stick from the press

0:22:410:22:43

so that shut them up a little bit.

0:22:430:22:44

But it was such a brilliant goal, I must admit.

0:22:440:22:46

Now, of course, the press turned. It was all about Gazza.

0:22:460:22:49

Sure. It set the tournament up from an England point of view, clearly.

0:22:490:22:53

-COMMENTARY:

-This is the moment they will talk about,

0:22:530:22:56

when Gascoigne jinked through as of old

0:22:560:22:59

and stamped his indelible mark on Euro 96.

0:22:590:23:03

The DJ put the song on at the end and, suddenly...

0:23:050:23:09

And we didn't know that everyone knew it, everyone starts singing it.

0:23:090:23:13

And, honestly, it is an unbelievable, unbelievable thing.

0:23:130:23:17

-CROWD SINGS:

-# It's coming Football's coming home

0:23:170:23:21

# It's coming home It's coming home

0:23:210:23:25

# It's coming Football's coming home... #

0:23:250:23:29

# Everyone seems to know the score

0:23:290:23:34

# They've seen it all before

0:23:340:23:38

# They just know They're so sure... #

0:23:380:23:41

Whose idea was it?

0:23:410:23:44

-What, the song?

-Who wrote the song?

0:23:440:23:45

The song music was written by Ian Brodie,

0:23:450:23:48

Ian Brodie of the Lightning Seeds.

0:23:480:23:50

He just felt that we represented football fans

0:23:500:23:53

-and so asked us to write the lyrics.

-The weird thing was,

0:23:530:23:56

he was famous for writing bittersweet love songs and he said,

0:23:560:23:59

"I don't think I could write a football song,"

0:23:590:24:01

so we came in and we wrote a bittersweet love song

0:24:010:24:03

about the England team.

0:24:030:24:04

Yeah, the lyrics were that thing of, like,

0:24:040:24:07

trying to chime with the real experience

0:24:070:24:09

of an England football fan,

0:24:090:24:10

which is not that we are going to win,

0:24:100:24:13

but nor that we think we are going to lose, it's somewhere in between.

0:24:130:24:16

It's hope over experience.

0:24:160:24:18

It's like, "We're probably going to lose, but you never know,

0:24:180:24:20

"you never know!" And that, I think,

0:24:200:24:22

is what made it something that people have remembered

0:24:220:24:25

and that people sung at the time.

0:24:250:24:27

It was always playing on the bus, wasn't it, on the way to the games.

0:24:270:24:30

It's definitely the best football song, isn't it?

0:24:300:24:33

You're right, it got the nation together, didn't it?

0:24:330:24:36

When we took Three Lions to the England training camp and played it,

0:24:360:24:41

we said, "Oh, is there any players

0:24:410:24:42

"who'd like to come and be in the video?"

0:24:420:24:44

Now, to be in a pop video, you'd think that would be...

0:24:440:24:47

I remember you said,

0:24:470:24:48

"Oh, can't we just sign some footballs instead?"

0:24:480:24:50

But, yeah...

0:24:500:24:53

I was dull and I was boring!

0:24:530:24:55

Yeah. I actually watched it this morning

0:24:550:24:57

and I was thinking to myself, "How come I'm not in that video?"

0:24:570:25:00

Cos you were signing footballs, Alan.

0:25:000:25:02

Didn't have any footballs to sign.

0:25:020:25:03

-Yeah, we got Steve Stone instead.

-Steve Stone!

0:25:030:25:06

You've been trying to look like him ever since.

0:25:060:25:10

# Jules Rimet still gleaming... #

0:25:100:25:14

I did the one... You know when Bobby Charlton feinted to go one way,

0:25:140:25:17

pushed it the other way and hit it in the top corner?

0:25:170:25:20

I did it the first take. I drilled it in the top corner

0:25:200:25:22

and was like, "That will do then! That's a take."

0:25:220:25:25

I must point out that we did actually come down

0:25:270:25:30

to Burnham Beeches with the song and play it to you lot

0:25:300:25:34

and I don't remember such a great reaction.

0:25:340:25:36

Terry Venables listened to it tapping his car keys like that

0:25:360:25:39

and then he said, "It's a real key tapper, isn't it?"

0:25:390:25:42

I said, "I don't think that's a phrase, is it? A key tapper?"

0:25:420:25:45

Yeah!

0:25:450:25:47

Well, as we're stood probably half a mile away from Old Trafford,

0:25:520:25:56

good memories for you?

0:25:560:25:58

Oh, yeah, played with so many great players in that great stadium.

0:25:580:26:01

When I look at it, it brings back great memories.

0:26:010:26:04

Can you imagine how many more trophies you would have won

0:26:040:26:07

-if I'd have joined?

-I'm a bit disappointed.

0:26:070:26:09

Can you imagine how many trophies YOU would've won?

0:26:090:26:13

I know, exactly.

0:26:130:26:15

What about your relationship with Gazza?

0:26:150:26:17

Both on the pitch and off the pitch,

0:26:170:26:19

you got on very well with him, didn't you?

0:26:190:26:22

Yeah, we were very, very close.

0:26:220:26:24

You know, he used to come to my room all the time.

0:26:240:26:27

I'm only laughing cos you probably know a lot about it.

0:26:270:26:30

-He was always in my room.

-Elaborate. What was going on in your room?

0:26:300:26:34

Well... It was...

0:26:340:26:35

It was like a pub, to be fair. It was like a pub.

0:26:350:26:41

They used to come in there and play games and have a few beers.

0:26:410:26:44

It was a bit of fun and it took the pressure away

0:26:440:26:47

from thinking about the next game.

0:26:470:26:50

I enjoyed it and I know the lads did.

0:26:500:26:52

Am I allowed to swear on this BLEEP camera?

0:26:540:26:59

Three off the tee.

0:26:590:27:00

When I spoke to Incey,

0:27:000:27:02

he said his room was sometimes classed as a bar, as a pub.

0:27:020:27:07

I can't quite remember that, to be honest.

0:27:070:27:09

-Can you?

-Not really.

0:27:090:27:11

-During the competition?

-Yeah, during the competition.

0:27:130:27:15

He said we used to have a couple of beers in his room,

0:27:150:27:18

or him and Gazza did anyway.

0:27:180:27:20

Well... You'd expect Gazza to have a couple of beers of some sort.

0:27:200:27:23

I thought we'd kind of made a little pact between the lot of us

0:27:230:27:28

that we'd stay off the drink

0:27:280:27:29

and make a real commitment to what we were trying to do.

0:27:290:27:32

What's it like in those trees?

0:27:320:27:33

I'm not in them yet!

0:27:330:27:36

I think we'll call that a lost ball, shall we?

0:27:390:27:43

It was important to have a laugh though, wasn't it,

0:27:430:27:45

have a bit of downtime.

0:27:450:27:46

Yeah, but then we always had that with the characters

0:27:460:27:49

that we had in the squad, didn't we?

0:27:490:27:50

We've got snooker tables, table tennis, a games room,

0:27:500:27:53

a certain Mr Gascoigne keeps us entertained as well

0:27:530:27:55

so we're all right.

0:27:550:27:57

What would he be doing? Can you share a few secrets with us?

0:27:570:28:00

I think he's down the pub

0:28:000:28:01

having a couple of pints with the rest of the lads!

0:28:010:28:04

No cameras, though.

0:28:050:28:07

Gazza being Gazza would be like flying around the hotel

0:28:070:28:10

and Terry would be like, "David, take him fishing, calm him down,

0:28:100:28:13

"he's getting hyper." We'd get in my car and we got to the off-licence

0:28:130:28:17

and get a couple of beers. Gazza got in the car and opened his beer,

0:28:170:28:20

popped a tablet and had a swig.

0:28:200:28:22

I was like, "What was that?"

0:28:220:28:24

He was like, "It's a sleeper."

0:28:240:28:25

"What you taking that for?"

0:28:250:28:27

He said, "I want to fight the tablet."

0:28:270:28:29

I was like, "What?!"

0:28:290:28:32

We went onto the lake and we were trout fishing

0:28:320:28:35

and he saw this fish rising

0:28:350:28:38

and he's just gone straight off the jetty into the lake,

0:28:380:28:42

in his full England trackie.

0:28:420:28:43

He's like, "Help me, help me!"

0:28:430:28:45

"Get closer, I'll get you."

0:28:450:28:46

Pulls him out and said,

0:28:460:28:47

"I'm going fishing, I'll leave you to it."

0:28:470:28:50

The next thing, I looked back two minutes later

0:28:500:28:52

and he was fast asleep.

0:28:520:28:53

-Well, the sleeper worked.

-Yeah, the sleeper won.

0:28:530:28:56

Look at that! Crazy golf, isn't it, we're playing here?

0:29:000:29:03

I can't remember having a drink during the competition.

0:29:030:29:07

-Yeah.

-It was only when we got knocked out

0:29:070:29:09

and then we all went back to the bar and we were all very, very deflated.

0:29:090:29:13

We just had a solemn drink between us, the whole group.

0:29:130:29:18

That is all I can remember.

0:29:180:29:19

I can only remember having that drink during the tournament.

0:29:190:29:22

With the characters we had,

0:29:220:29:23

I'm pretty sure we must've had one or two but not a lot.

0:29:230:29:25

-Not during the tournament.

-But it is 20 years ago, right?

0:29:250:29:28

I mean, we're not talking about last week, are we?

0:29:280:29:31

Absolutely, yeah. And we're getting on.

0:29:310:29:33

# That's life

0:29:340:29:36

# That's what all the people say

0:29:360:29:40

# Da-da-dee-dee-dee-dee... #

0:29:400:29:43

After that Scotland game, was that the first time

0:29:430:29:45

you were able to go back to the hotel and start thinking,

0:29:450:29:48

"You know what, I really believe we can win this tournament?"

0:29:480:29:51

-Yeah, I did.

-Did you?

-I felt it all the way through.

0:29:510:29:54

Tell me about your relationship with Terry Venables.

0:29:540:29:57

Was it him that you signed for at Spurs?

0:29:570:30:00

He said, "If you sign for me,

0:30:000:30:02

"you're playing for England in ten games."

0:30:020:30:04

He was right, you know? It was all the time he used to...

0:30:040:30:08

When I was getting on his nerves he used to tell me to go running

0:30:080:30:11

for a little bit and kick the ball about. You know...

0:30:110:30:14

He knew when to put us on.

0:30:140:30:16

Sometimes I knew I had a great game and he'd say, "You were crap today."

0:30:160:30:19

And then when I played crap, he'd tell us I was brilliant.

0:30:190:30:22

So you couldn't work him out.

0:30:220:30:24

I think Terry Venables was one of those who could be one of the lads

0:30:240:30:29

but yet there was a fine line how far you could take him.

0:30:290:30:32

For me, from a football point of view, he simplified things.

0:30:320:30:35

He gave you that kind of mentality that you wanted to win for him.

0:30:350:30:39

He was brilliant. Every time we'd watch all these different teams

0:30:390:30:42

and then he would always show Holland. He always said,

0:30:420:30:45

"The Holland game is going to be the key game."

0:30:450:30:47

Yeah. He was right.

0:30:470:30:49

CHEERING

0:30:500:30:52

That journey from the hotel to Wembley was special, wasn't it?

0:30:570:31:02

-With fans lining the streets.

-Exactly. Incredible.

0:31:020:31:05

Then to go in and put in a performance like that,

0:31:050:31:08

it was, for me,

0:31:080:31:10

that was the best atmosphere I've ever played in in my life.

0:31:100:31:13

That performance and that night against a team of Holland's calibre

0:31:130:31:18

-was something special, wasn't it?

-Yes, it was.

0:31:180:31:21

This is where we were also saying,

0:31:210:31:24

"What we need to do is to set the fans on fire, really."

0:31:240:31:28

They are looking for a proper performance

0:31:280:31:31

and that is exactly what we gave them.

0:31:310:31:34

So far England have rewritten the cliche about the game of two halves.

0:31:360:31:40

England have played for two halves but in two games.

0:31:400:31:43

Our partnership just worked, didn't it?

0:31:430:31:45

You knew my game, I knew your game.

0:31:450:31:46

I think clever players try and make it work, don't they?

0:31:460:31:50

-If you see...

-That's the first time

0:31:500:31:52

I've been described as clever, by the way!

0:31:520:31:54

-I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about me!

-All right, OK.

0:31:540:31:57

McManaman doesn't have too much support at the moment.

0:32:000:32:03

Anderton is the most likely going forward.

0:32:030:32:05

Here's Ince...

0:32:050:32:07

Penalty!

0:32:070:32:08

England lead.

0:32:130:32:15

Everyone was a ten out of ten, weren't they?

0:32:180:32:20

Yeah. We had to be.

0:32:200:32:22

McManaman right in front of the goalkeeper.

0:32:220:32:24

Goal!

0:32:250:32:27

Terry Sheringham makes it 2-0 to England.

0:32:270:32:32

You could have had another goal, really, but you decided

0:32:320:32:35

-to side pass it to me, didn't you?

-You tell me about that.

0:32:350:32:38

I mean, I've had a lot of comments over the years

0:32:380:32:40

that, "Would Shearer have passed to you?"

0:32:400:32:43

I said, "No chance.

0:32:430:32:44

"I don't know what I was doing passing to him."

0:32:440:32:46

-You explain the situation.

-No way I would have passed that to him.

0:32:460:32:50

McManaman.

0:32:500:32:51

Gascoigne.

0:32:530:32:54

Sheringham waits.

0:32:540:32:56

Shearer!

0:32:560:32:57

Easy goal. You still put it in off the post.

0:33:000:33:02

It wasn't that easy, come on.

0:33:020:33:05

-It wasn't that easy.

-My mum could have scored that.

0:33:050:33:08

A little side-footer in the corner.

0:33:080:33:09

You had to blast it.

0:33:090:33:11

That's what you did, you blasted it.

0:33:110:33:13

And you have to say it's magnificent.

0:33:140:33:16

'I used an identical line that described Maradona's'

0:33:160:33:21

brilliant goal against England in '86.

0:33:210:33:24

"You have to say that was magnificent."

0:33:240:33:27

And it was.

0:33:270:33:29

That's Anderton.

0:33:300:33:31

And Sheringham!

0:33:310:33:33

It's four.

0:33:330:33:34

That was the best performance I'd ever seen from England.

0:33:370:33:40

-Is that right?

-Yeah.

-The best performance?

0:33:400:33:42

The best performance I'd ever seen from an England team.

0:33:420:33:44

The performance was just brilliant, the way the goals went.

0:33:440:33:48

-Even the one I let in meant that...

-You let it in, didn't you?

-Oh, yeah.

0:33:480:33:51

Straight through my legs.

0:33:510:33:53

He's going, "Not really."

0:33:530:33:54

England go into the quarterfinals on a high.

0:33:560:33:59

You were quoted after the game as saying that night was perfection.

0:34:010:34:05

It was perfection.

0:34:050:34:06

It was super special.

0:34:060:34:08

I'm the first to say well done to the players.

0:34:080:34:10

But just when you think you got things licked in this game,

0:34:100:34:13

it can smack you in the face.

0:34:130:34:15

Were you talking about it?

0:34:150:34:16

-Do players sit and say, "We can win this"?

-Yeah, definitely.

0:34:160:34:19

There was a feel-good factor, there was an arrogance,

0:34:190:34:23

a confidence. We were locked away in our hotel.

0:34:230:34:26

We didn't have a clue about the atmosphere outside the hotel.

0:34:260:34:29

We didn't know what was going on in the country.

0:34:290:34:31

The atmosphere in the country and in London was incredible.

0:34:310:34:34

There was a sense in the '90s

0:34:340:34:36

that this country had a brighter or sunnier,

0:34:360:34:39

more technicoloured thing going on.

0:34:390:34:42

There was Britpop and Brit Art

0:34:420:34:44

-and all that sort of stuff.

-And football.

0:34:440:34:46

And with less than two hours to go before England take on Spain

0:34:460:34:49

in the Euro 96 quarterfinal,

0:34:490:34:51

thousands of fans have been pouring into Wembley.

0:34:510:34:54

Before 96, an England game could be a scary place to be.

0:34:540:34:59

The worst hooligans from every club in the country

0:34:590:35:02

would go and watch England

0:35:020:35:04

and the only chanting I remember, that I could repeat,

0:35:040:35:08

is like "no surrender to the IRA". Stuff like that.

0:35:080:35:10

I mean, really quite dark, scary stuff.

0:35:100:35:14

I would say it started to change in 1990.

0:35:140:35:16

1996 in a lovely way was the kind of apex

0:35:160:35:19

of a new way of going to a football game.

0:35:190:35:22

It still stands out, Euro 96,

0:35:220:35:24

as the last event that we had that the nation could come together with.

0:35:240:35:29

CHEERING

0:35:290:35:32

Not for 30 years has there been such expectancy.

0:35:340:35:39

THEY GREET EACH OTHER IN SPANISH

0:35:430:35:45

Hey! Mi amigo!

0:35:490:35:51

El mejor persono in el mondo.

0:35:510:35:54

You were El Tel, that was how you were known in the media, in England

0:35:560:35:59

when you went over to Barcelona.

0:35:590:36:01

Visca el Barca!

0:36:010:36:03

Did you fall in love with the place?

0:36:030:36:05

Barcelona, or Spain in general?

0:36:050:36:07

Well, Spain in general, really.

0:36:070:36:09

-Yeah.

-You know all about Spanish football.

-I do.

0:36:090:36:12

I was there for three years and I know all about Javier Clemente.

0:36:120:36:14

He was manager of Espanyol when I was at Barcelona.

0:36:140:36:17

We've had a few run-ins and he's a tough cookie.

0:36:170:36:20

You knew the Spanish manager very well, and he said,

0:36:200:36:24

"They are either going to do this or going to play like that,

0:36:240:36:27

"and maybe like that."

0:36:270:36:28

They didn't do any of the three.

0:36:280:36:30

Yes, we've had a practice of penalties, too.

0:36:300:36:32

In training we've got no problem getting five.

0:36:320:36:34

Everyone wants to take them. When the pressure is on, we'll see.

0:36:340:36:37

Do you think that we turned up expecting to win?

0:36:370:36:41

I don't know. It seemed weird.

0:36:410:36:43

I just seem to remember me having lots to do.

0:36:430:36:46

We had a bit of luck as well,

0:36:460:36:47

cos they had a goal disallowed that was a legal goal.

0:36:470:36:50

Shearer!

0:36:520:36:53

And it is to be a penalty competition.

0:36:550:36:58

No golden goal.

0:36:580:37:00

What's your thoughts when you were walking towards the goal?

0:37:000:37:04

You're on your own then, aren't you?

0:37:040:37:05

Yeah. Do you know what, what I really think?

0:37:050:37:07

"Chance of glory."

0:37:070:37:09

Shearer against Zubizarreta.

0:37:100:37:12

England lead.

0:37:150:37:17

Even though we'd started to think after Holland that we could win it,

0:37:180:37:22

-certainly...

-Penalties...

0:37:220:37:24

What we probably thought we couldn't do was win a penalty shoot-out.

0:37:240:37:27

We could win a tournament but not a penalty shoot-out.

0:37:270:37:29

England stay in front.

0:37:320:37:35

-Advantage us.

-Yeah.

0:37:350:37:36

Then it was important that the next penalty-taker scores,

0:37:360:37:40

because then it really establishes a lead.

0:37:400:37:42

I remember being at the side of the goal looking back

0:37:440:37:47

thinking, "Who's coming down now?",

0:37:470:37:49

and I see Pearcy and I'm like, "Oh, my God."

0:37:490:37:51

A brave man steps forward to take England's third.

0:37:530:37:56

I've never wanted anybody to score a penalty more than at that moment.

0:37:560:38:01

Everyone knew what it meant, to him particularly.

0:38:010:38:04

For that moment it's like watching a drama,

0:38:040:38:07

this one bloke's battle against that memory.

0:38:070:38:11

Banish the memory of Turin.

0:38:120:38:14

Stuart Pearce.

0:38:140:38:16

Oh, yes, what a penalty!

0:38:170:38:19

And the relief belongs not only to this championship

0:38:210:38:24

but to the World Cup of 1990.

0:38:240:38:27

'Stuart in his book had a bit of a go at me.

0:38:270:38:31

'He said I had overplayed his reaction.'

0:38:310:38:35

Now, I mean, just look at the pictures.

0:38:350:38:38

Did 1990 go through your mind?

0:38:380:38:40

Not today, but it has done many a time before.

0:38:410:38:44

He has to score.

0:38:460:38:47

And doesn't. England are through!

0:38:510:38:54

I get up and I don't realise that that's the deciding penalty.

0:38:550:38:58

And then I see all the lads running towards me.

0:38:580:39:01

"We got it right!"

0:39:010:39:03

We realised that we'd got through to the semifinals.

0:39:030:39:06

We moved onto Incy's bar in the hotel.

0:39:060:39:09

I met David Seaman at a film premiere about a year after Euro 96

0:39:120:39:16

and he said, "Frank, can I ask you a question?

0:39:160:39:20

"Who's Jules Rimet?"

0:39:200:39:21

How confident were you with a team or a squad like that

0:39:280:39:31

that we could do well?

0:39:310:39:33

Well, you want the big attitudes,

0:39:330:39:36

the guys who are not going to blow up

0:39:360:39:39

or going to be frightened of this.

0:39:390:39:42

If you've got captains, you've got leaders,

0:39:420:39:44

you've got guys that will take the rest over the cliff.

0:39:440:39:47

That was the biggest thing.

0:39:470:39:49

If I could have all captains, I think to myself,

0:39:490:39:53

"The others will follow on."

0:39:530:39:55

I looked around the changing room and I thought, "Wow,

0:39:550:39:58

"we've got fantastic players here. We've got leaders."

0:39:580:40:01

So when things go wrong, we know we can come together.

0:40:010:40:04

Tony was without doubt my toughest opponent.

0:40:040:40:06

I think he's the best centre half I ever played against.

0:40:060:40:09

You knew what you were going to get from him.

0:40:090:40:11

Totally. We played together for so long.

0:40:110:40:13

It was great for Tony for what he was going through

0:40:130:40:16

and the way he has now looked after himself.

0:40:160:40:20

-Yeah.

-And just to get so close, it's just so frustrating!

0:40:200:40:25

ORCHESTRA TUNES UP

0:40:280:40:30

Hello again. Glad you've tuned in.

0:40:340:40:35

You've obviously heard there's a football match on tonight.

0:40:350:40:38

England against Germany, the second semifinal of Euro 96.

0:40:380:40:41

Sporting history waiting to be made.

0:40:410:40:43

ORCHESTRA STARTS PLAYING "Football's Coming Home"

0:40:430:40:46

In the space of a few weeks, we'd gone from a national disgrace

0:40:460:40:50

to being on the verge of winning the tournament.

0:40:500:40:52

By that point, we knew that everyone was behind us.

0:40:520:40:55

That semifinal remains the biggest game I've ever played in.

0:40:570:41:00

The atmosphere and the build-up was just indescribable.

0:41:000:41:02

I'll never forget it.

0:41:050:41:06

I still get goose bumps just thinking about it.

0:41:060:41:08

English and German football fans are gathering at Wembley

0:41:120:41:15

for this evening's Euro 96 semifinal.

0:41:150:41:17

I think it was a real sense that that was essentially the final,

0:41:170:41:20

because if we beat Germany, we can beat the Czech Republic.

0:41:200:41:24

This is always a special event, isn't it?

0:41:260:41:28

It's always a bit more than a football match.

0:41:280:41:30

England are on their way to Wembley,

0:41:300:41:32

and the winners there will play the Czech Republic.

0:41:320:41:34

The England team know what they have to do -

0:41:340:41:36

exactly the same as their predecessors in 1966.

0:41:360:41:39

It's great to be English, isn't it?

0:41:410:41:43

I mean, we really want to give them something.

0:41:430:41:47

It's one of those moments where football becomes something else.

0:41:470:41:51

Like no drama, no film, nothing.

0:41:510:41:54

Wembley will be packed tonight

0:41:540:41:55

and millions more will watch in pubs and living rooms across the nation.

0:41:550:41:58

I think for a long while

0:41:580:41:59

we've not been feeling too good about ourselves in this country

0:41:590:42:02

for many different reasons

0:42:020:42:04

and it's wonderful to see people being thrilled at an event.

0:42:040:42:08

The expectancy levels were up from all the crowd

0:42:080:42:11

and I think everybody in the country wanted us to win.

0:42:110:42:14

It was a great time to be an English fan.

0:42:200:42:22

We were playing well, we'd got a chance for a change.

0:42:220:42:24

-"Come on, let's go and do it."

-"Let's do it," yeah.

0:42:240:42:27

ORCHESTRA PLAYS MEDLEY OF ENGLISH SONGS

0:42:270:42:30

It was a very special, very special evening.

0:42:550:42:58

I was...

0:42:580:43:00

The heart still beats pretty hard over it.

0:43:010:43:04

Alan Shearer!

0:43:140:43:16

CHEERING

0:43:160:43:18

Wonderful start.

0:43:180:43:20

His fifth goal in his fifth match.

0:43:200:43:23

They can't quite believe it on the bench. In the European Championship.

0:43:230:43:26

When you scored, I remember

0:43:280:43:29

you running off with your hand up like that.

0:43:290:43:31

I thought, "Oh, my God. We are, we're going to win this."

0:43:310:43:34

England taking the lead in two minutes and 15 seconds.

0:43:340:43:39

The chant, "It's coming home, it's coming home..."

0:43:390:43:42

That peaked when you scored against Germany.

0:43:420:43:45

I could hear people singing it as fast as they could sing it.

0:43:450:43:49

Just so fast that they could actually bring it home.

0:43:490:43:52

This is Moller for Germany.

0:43:520:43:54

Helmer.

0:43:560:43:57

Kuntz - it's 1-1!

0:43:570:43:59

CHEERING

0:43:590:44:01

Their goal seemed to happen so fast.

0:44:020:44:05

It was in the box and then a couple of touches,

0:44:050:44:08

bang, in the goal. I was like, "Whoa."

0:44:080:44:10

Well, it was a fierce contest.

0:44:100:44:12

It was a great contest and they are always hard to beat

0:44:120:44:15

and they keep going until the end.

0:44:150:44:17

That's why you've got to match them and some.

0:44:170:44:19

WHISTLE BLOWS

0:44:190:44:21

So it's extra time...

0:44:230:44:25

with the first to score going through.

0:44:250:44:28

I thought golden goal was actually incredibly exciting.

0:44:280:44:31

Can I tell you something? They abandoned it because

0:44:310:44:33

they were worried that teams

0:44:330:44:35

would just seize up in golden goal and not play.

0:44:350:44:37

That's absolutely not what you did.

0:44:370:44:39

Platt.

0:44:390:44:41

McManaman.

0:44:410:44:43

Anderton waits...

0:44:430:44:45

And it hits the post and it goes straight back to Kopke.

0:44:450:44:48

How unlucky can you get?

0:44:480:44:50

Terry Venables and Bryan Robson cannot believe that.

0:44:520:44:55

I've never seen two sides who were both prepared to grab the golden goal.

0:44:550:45:01

It was attack, attack, attack.

0:45:010:45:03

It's curling, and it's in!

0:45:060:45:08

No, a push.

0:45:080:45:09

A push. It's not going to be allowed.

0:45:090:45:12

Goodness me!

0:45:120:45:15

Can you remember my shot late on in the golden-goal time and Gazza had

0:45:150:45:20

the other half...?

0:45:200:45:22

Do I remember it?

0:45:220:45:23

Every night I dream about it.

0:45:230:45:25

-Still?

-Oh, God.

0:45:250:45:27

Sheringham.

0:45:270:45:29

Looks for Shearer.

0:45:290:45:31

Who loses his man... Gascoigne!

0:45:310:45:33

I don't believe it!

0:45:330:45:35

Just couldn't get the left to it.

0:45:370:45:39

The goal was yawning at his mercy.

0:45:390:45:41

When I spoke to him afterwards, I was like, "What happened?"

0:45:410:45:44

He said, "I thought the goalie was going to touch it.

0:45:440:45:47

"I was waiting for the flick," and that stopped him.

0:45:470:45:51

Everybody always goes on about the cross.

0:45:510:45:53

If it was the other way around, you would have scored.

0:45:530:45:56

I would've been devastated.

0:45:560:45:58

-We should've scored.

-Definitely.

0:45:580:46:01

I thought the keeper was going to get a touch.

0:46:010:46:03

-COMMENTATOR:

-One last attempt for England. No, it's cut off.

0:46:030:46:06

Once again, a contest between England and Germany,

0:46:060:46:10

as six years ago in the World Cup,

0:46:100:46:13

has to be decided in a penalty competition.

0:46:130:46:16

It's a strange situation, penalties, isn't it?

0:46:190:46:21

I mean, you know if you miss a penalty for England you're going to

0:46:210:46:25

be remembered for missing a penalty.

0:46:250:46:27

Shearer...

0:46:280:46:30

..opens the penalty competition.

0:46:320:46:34

England 1-0.

0:46:340:46:36

Beautiful penalty.

0:46:400:46:41

David Platt.

0:46:440:46:48

2-1 England.

0:46:480:46:50

Squares it at 2-2.

0:46:510:46:54

I literally watched ten perfect penalties to begin with.

0:46:540:46:58

I remember thinking, "Get us through to the final,"

0:46:580:47:02

and then hardly getting anywhere near their spot kicks.

0:47:020:47:06

I think I put my hand to one of them.

0:47:060:47:09

It was so hard it still went in.

0:47:090:47:11

All of the others went down the side of the post and stuff.

0:47:110:47:13

I remembered feeling like I didn't have a chance.

0:47:140:47:17

Teddy Sheringham. England's last of the five.

0:47:180:47:21

Yes!

0:47:230:47:24

England lead 5-4.

0:47:270:47:29

It's going to be Stefan Kuntz who steps forward.

0:47:310:47:35

Has to score.

0:47:350:47:36

And does.

0:47:360:47:38

Couldn't get a sudden-death goal in extra time.

0:47:410:47:44

We're moving on now to sudden death.

0:47:440:47:47

It's easy to say it now, but I did...

0:47:470:47:50

I was worried about it,

0:47:500:47:51

the first penalty that I really felt worried about.

0:47:510:47:54

Prayers being offered this time.

0:47:570:47:59

Gareth Southgate.

0:47:590:48:02

Did you ever think there were more experienced players to take a penalty?

0:48:040:48:09

Yes, I did think so.

0:48:100:48:12

I think he was asked, "Do you want a penalty?"

0:48:120:48:15

It was like a response of, "Yeah, I've got to at some stage.

0:48:150:48:19

"Of course, I'll take one." "Right, you're sixth, then."

0:48:190:48:22

I don't think he really would have put himself up to be the sixth

0:48:220:48:25

-penalty taker.

-How did we get to Gareth?

0:48:250:48:27

Was he always on the list or did you decide there and then?

0:48:270:48:31

No, no, he had a good temperament and he was the first one

0:48:310:48:34

to volunteer, because no-one really wanted it.

0:48:340:48:38

It was a little bit up in the air and on the floor and looking over there.

0:48:380:48:42

"Can I see your face?" You know?

0:48:420:48:44

But...you know what it's like.

0:48:440:48:48

Wasn't there someone who I thought should have taken one that didn't?

0:48:480:48:51

-I can't remember now.

-I think if there's a striker on the pitch and a

0:48:510:48:53

defender is going up and missing a penalty,

0:48:530:48:55

you're blaming the striker as much as the guy who's missed.

0:48:550:48:58

Was there someone, Alan?

0:48:580:49:01

-Was it Paul Ince or...?

-I think it was.

0:49:010:49:03

The penalty takers are named and you're not in to take a penalty -

0:49:030:49:08

-was there a reason for that?

-It was a strange one.

0:49:080:49:10

I think... I've never really spoken about this.

0:49:100:49:13

I've never myself been a penalty taker, let alone a goal-scorer.

0:49:130:49:16

I remembered El Tel saying, bang, bang, bang, so and so.

0:49:180:49:22

Teddy, yourself.

0:49:220:49:24

He said to Southey, "You're sixth or seventh."

0:49:240:49:27

I was going after Southey. I'm quite glad he missed, to be fair.

0:49:270:49:31

I'm joking!

0:49:320:49:34

People look back and say, "why didn't you take a penalty?"

0:49:340:49:37

I could have been six or seven.

0:49:370:49:40

If I'd been six, who knows what might have happened.

0:49:400:49:42

-COMMENTATOR:

-Prayers being offered this time.

0:49:440:49:47

Gareth Southgate.

0:49:470:49:49

Oh, no!

0:49:520:49:54

# Just a perfect day

0:50:090:50:13

# Drink Sangria in the park... #

0:50:130:50:16

You have to save for us to... to stay in there.

0:50:160:50:20

Yeah, and I just remember getting nowhere near it.

0:50:200:50:23

As soon as Moller scored his penalty,

0:50:290:50:32

that's it, that's the end of the tournament.

0:50:320:50:35

You've got to go home now. No, no, no, we're enjoying ourselves.

0:50:350:50:39

I wanted to carry on. Let us play a bit more.

0:50:390:50:42

No, that's it, you're out. You've got to go.

0:50:420:50:44

# Oh, it's such a perfect day

0:50:470:50:51

# I'm glad I spent it with you

0:50:510:50:56

# Oh, such a perfect day

0:50:560:51:01

# You just keep me hanging on

0:51:020:51:05

# You just keep me hanging on... #

0:51:050:51:10

Alan, you felt so sorry for Gareth Southgate.

0:51:100:51:14

-Terry was brilliant.

-I just went and said... Cos his face, it went...

0:51:140:51:18

It hit him. It's unfair to actually get that sort of torment.

0:51:180:51:24

I just said, "It's OK. Everyone is fine. Don't worry.

0:51:240:51:27

"You know, you've done your best.

0:51:270:51:30

"You've been brilliant. Come on, you need to keep your head up."

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It was horrible. It was horrible because we really did think you

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guys were going to win. We absolutely believed it.

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We kept saying, "This is our perfect summer."

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Remember this. Savour every moment.

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It was all set, it was going to happen.

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# Oh, it's such a perfect day

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# I'm glad I spent it with... #

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There was hooliganism in Trafalgar Square that night.

0:52:000:52:04

It was like, as soon as we were out, the whole perfect summer crumbled.

0:52:040:52:09

# You just keep me hanging on

0:52:090:52:12

# You just keep me hanging on... #

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Any regrets at all about the tournament?

0:52:190:52:21

Would you do anything different?

0:52:210:52:23

I don't think we'll ever have a better chance of winning a major

0:52:230:52:26

-competition.

-We would have won it, do you think, if we got through on those penalties?

0:52:260:52:30

Ifs and buts again, mate.

0:52:300:52:32

No good, are they?

0:52:320:52:33

It's a pretty sombre bus on the way back to the hotel.

0:52:330:52:37

We had a few beers that night.

0:52:370:52:38

We had quite a few!

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Can you imagine what it would have been like if we beat them?

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England's former soccer captain Tony Adams has admitted that he's

0:52:430:52:46

an alcoholic. He says he's on the road to recovery.

0:52:460:52:49

Adams says his problem became serious after the team's semifinal defeat.

0:52:490:52:54

I'm not living a lie any more, which is great.

0:52:540:52:56

I feel a lot better for it.

0:52:560:52:58

And it's...

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England having gone out at the semifinal, for a lot of the nation,

0:53:050:53:10

that was a bit of an anticlimax, the final.

0:53:100:53:12

An understatement, that, John.

0:53:120:53:13

This to win it.

0:53:260:53:28

Never a doubt.

0:53:310:53:33

Run around the course, eh?

0:53:340:53:36

Great memories looking back,

0:53:380:53:40

-talking about it with the public that came up.

-Still now, isn't it?

0:53:400:53:45

-Yeah.

-20 years on.

-Yeah. I love it, I love it.

0:53:450:53:48

People come up, "I hope I'm not boring you, talking about Euro 96."

0:53:480:53:52

Tell me about it, tell me about your scenario.

0:53:520:53:54

Tell me about it and we'll relive it for a couple of minutes.

0:53:540:53:57

Youngsters, of course, don't remember it too much but

0:53:570:54:01

their fathers tell them all about it, that sort of thing.

0:54:010:54:04

I... But it is, they do come up and say it was the best feeling they've ever had.

0:54:040:54:10

It's just a shame of that...

0:54:100:54:13

It just wasn't to be.

0:54:130:54:16

-Do you ever think what could have been?

-Do I? Of course I do.

0:54:160:54:20

I think to myself,

0:54:200:54:22

"Things have turned out all right."

0:54:220:54:25

It could have been...

0:54:260:54:28

It could have been better.

0:54:280:54:30

I'm very... As I said before, you can't take it away from me.

0:54:300:54:34

So football's your whole life?

0:54:360:54:37

Yes.

0:54:370:54:39

-You want it to go on being your whole life?

-Yes.

0:54:390:54:41

I'll stick with it for the rest of my life.

0:54:420:54:45

I hope that everybody else had a pretty good time

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and maybe we'll do it in the future.

0:54:490:54:52

We couldn't have had more support and we're all in it together.

0:54:570:55:01

Not just the players, but the fans and...

0:55:010:55:04

we win together and we lose together.

0:55:040:55:06

-I see Tony.

-Yeah.

0:55:150:55:17

We don't really reminisce about it.

0:55:170:55:20

When you're there and you've done it, you're like, that's him there.

0:55:200:55:24

We know what we had...

0:55:240:55:26

-And Gazza?

-Gazza, yes.

0:55:260:55:27

I do keep in touch with him a little bit.

0:55:270:55:30

You see what Gazza is going through. It is sad.

0:55:300:55:33

I thought Gazza was the best English player I ever saw.

0:55:330:55:36

I thought he had everything.

0:55:360:55:38

Is Gascoigne going to have a crack? He is, you know.

0:55:380:55:41

Ohhhh! I say.

0:55:410:55:42

Brilliant.

0:55:420:55:45

That is Schoolboys' Own stuff!

0:55:470:55:49

Oh, I bet even he can't believe it!

0:55:520:55:54

Oh, what an honour.

0:55:570:55:59

Thanks very much.

0:55:590:56:00

He became a hero, didn't he?

0:56:000:56:02

Lovely, thank you very much.

0:56:120:56:14

Cheers, mate.

0:56:140:56:15

Thanks, mate. Cheers.

0:56:220:56:25

-Enjoy tonight.

-You too, mate.

0:56:250:56:27

For Gazza, that was...

0:56:270:56:29

-His high point, in fact.

-Good point.

0:56:290:56:31

Gazza is complicated, to watch his progress.

0:56:370:56:40

You could tell he was a vulnerable bloke and that was one reason why you felt for him.

0:56:400:56:44

We always said that, didn't we?

0:56:440:56:46

We were worried for Gazza when he quit.

0:56:460:56:48

It felt like football was the one thing that kept him together.

0:56:480:56:53

You know, it's sort of proved to be true.

0:56:530:56:55

Please welcome on stage your very own Paul Gascoigne! Gazza!

0:56:550:57:02

Is Euro 96 a big part of what people want to talk to you about?

0:57:050:57:10

Yeah. I'm never going to get them times again, you know?

0:57:100:57:13

Do you still keep in contact with the lads from that time?

0:57:130:57:17

Yes, I speak to them and how they're getting on,

0:57:170:57:19

I just know whenever I meet them I get too excited.

0:57:190:57:21

I get myself in trouble again.

0:57:210:57:23

For me, I find it sometimes really hard in my life to go back

0:57:230:57:27

to the great times I had. I keep thinking to myself, "Well,

0:57:270:57:30

"I'm never going to have them times again."

0:57:300:57:32

Years ago I realised that when I played for Newcastle when I was 17,

0:57:320:57:36

and this is a stupid of me, this is how bad I was...

0:57:360:57:39

but when the season finished I went back to the Excelsior club.

0:57:390:57:43

-The season had finished and I started crying...

-Clubbing?

-Yeah.

0:57:430:57:46

The Gateshead. I started crying my eyes out.

0:57:460:57:49

My dad said, "What are you crying about?"

0:57:490:57:51

I said, "My career is finished."

0:57:510:57:52

He went, "No, you haven't. You're having a break for six weeks."

0:57:520:57:55

"No, I'm not going to play again." That's how bad I was even just then.

0:57:550:57:58

So, imagine what it was like for me when I bump into the lads and

0:57:580:58:01

just reminisce about the great times we had.

0:58:010:58:03

Then...some of the people and some of the press might try and

0:58:030:58:07

take a lot of the stuff away from us, but them things they can't.

0:58:070:58:10

Do you actually get together with the Euro 96 team?

0:58:100:58:14

Do you have reunions?

0:58:140:58:15

No, we don't have any reunions.

0:58:150:58:18

I think this is why it has been fantastic to go around for the last

0:58:180:58:21

12 months and speak to the guys and

0:58:210:58:23

-get their feelings, what they're doing now etc.

-Yeah.

0:58:230:58:26

I like to think that you're all getting together and singing the song.

0:58:260:58:29

-That's what I like to think.

-I'd like to see it.

-That's what we should finish off with.

0:58:290:58:33

Once a year you gather around the dentist's chair.

0:58:330:58:35

Yeah. If you like, we could reshoot the video with you in it.

0:58:350:58:38

I've got to sign some footballs! Sorry!

0:58:400:58:43

MUSIC: A Design For Life by Manic Street Preachers

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# Then work came and made us free

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# What price now

0:58:540:58:57

# For a shallow piece of dignity?

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# I wish I had a bottle

0:59:100:59:13

# Right here in my dirty face

0:59:160:59:19

# To wear the scars... #

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