The past had personality. Too much, at times. Before England’s first game at Italia ‘90, Bobby Robson held a crisis meeting after several players sneaked out of the hotel for a drinking session, returned at 1.30am and Bryan Robson — the captain — injured his big toe trying, for reasons best known to himself, to overturn a bed.
Soon after the squad arrived at their base, Gascoigne ordered pina coladas and hoodwinked Bobby Robson, the manager, into thinking that they were banana milkshakes. At training he stuffed Robson’s boots with paper and before a tennis match he decided to see how many pieces of chewing gum he could fit in his mouth. An impressive 26.
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