To say Paul Gascoigne’s birthday celebrations at the China Jump club in Hong Kong became a thirsty affair would be an understatement.
Alan Shearer looks back now with horror at the antics – and how England manager Terry Venables used the incident to galvanise his squad to the brink of glory at Euro 96 on home soil the following month.
Match of the Day pundit Shearer, who only played with Gazza at international level and never in domestic football, said: “I was, you would say, an innocent bystander at the infamous dentist’s chair incident in Hong Kong in the build-up to Euro 96. “I saw that it was becoming messy and I managed to slope off, even though I couldn’t have imagined it escalating like it did. “It turned into a nightmare for
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