Gazza's pal drove 7 hours to get mug as star couldn't sleep knowing it 'lost its mates'
dailystar.co.ukPaul Gascoigne once made his mate drive seven hours to retrieve a missing mug from a teammate's house - because he couldn't sleep knowing it had "lost its mates".
Gazza apparently told his best pal, Jimmy 'Five Bellies, Gardner, to make the 400-mile round trip from the North East to Birmingham, in the dead of night.
He had been on his way to bed when he spotted a coffee cups was missing from the mug tree in his kitchen, at his home in Seaham, County Durham.READ MORE: 'Ridiculous' Premier League hero 'smoked 80 fags a day' but was 'f***ing brilliant'When Jimmy realised Gazza's Middlesbrough teammate and housemate Andy Townsend had taken it to his family home, he was given the job.Boro manager Bryan Robson had tasked "sensible" Townsend with keeping Gazza in check by living with him.Gazza, Townsend and Jimmy had a routine where they'd each arrive at training with a mug of coffee brought from home.
But when Townsend was unexpectedly told he could head back to the Midlands after training one Monday, the knock-on effect played hell with Gazza's well-documented Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).Speaking on the Undr The Cosh podcast, Craig Hignett, who played with them at Boro in the late 1990s, said Gazza was thrown when he noticed a mug was missing.
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