LOOKING BACK
STUART STEELYARD RECALLS WHEN PAUL GASCOIGNE’S ENGLAND CAREER CAME TO A SUDDEN AND CONTROVERSIAL END….

ENGLAND’S qualifying group had come down to a crunch match in Rome in October ’97. A draw for England would see them return to a World Cup for the first time since 1990, defeat would mean a nervous two-legged play-off to come. f
The match itself has gone down as one of the great England performances of the 90s, against an Italian team who had won every one of their previous World Cup qualifying home fixtures since the competition began in 1930.
They gr...