STEPH HOUGHTON
Jun 05, 2019
4 minutes
What’s your first football memory?
Probably Euro 96, when Paul Gascoigne scored against Scotland. I was eight. I had a bet with my Aunty actually. She’s Scottish and said if England won, she’d buy me my first England kit. That’s probably why I remember it, and it wasn’t a bad goal either, was it?
Which players did you admire growing up?
I supported Sunderland, so Kevin Phillips was pretty much guy during that time. I was a striker as a kid and he was scoring loads of goals, so I wanted to follow in his footsteps. I was Kevin Phillips on the school playground and one of my best mates was
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