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“THE PRESS KILLED US FOR THE DENTIST’S CHAIR PHOTOS, BUT WE HAD SUCH GREAT CAMARADERIE”

You were part of the Euro 96 squad, and came off the bench a few times during the tournament. Tell us about that summer…

You look back and think, ‘Wow, that was an incredible time’. My kids think I’m famous only for being one of the players featured in the video with Baddiel, Skinner and Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds! Everybody still talks about Gazza and the dentist’s chair. I was there that night. In fact, almost everybody was, because there was such a great camaraderie in that squad. It was unprofessional and the press murdered us but, at the time, it just felt like a good bit of team bonding. Thankfully, by the time we got

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