England-Scotland: Combust I and Rangers Player

england-scotland: On the day of England-Scotland it was out of the question and Gascoigne, a Rangers player at the time, was hyped to the point his team-mates were starting to think he might spontaneously combust, according to The Guardian. I'm not sure emotional control was his style, Southgate recalls, with an element of unmistakable fondness. Those were the days when Paul Gascoigne team-mates felt a collective sense of duty to help, in the carefully chosen words of Southgate, calm him down – or to be brutal about it, get him out of our hair for a couple of hours – and one ploy was to send him fishing in the afternoon with David Seaman, knowing the only occasion when England most talented player could be guaranteed to sit still was if he had a fishing rod in his hand. So, Bryan Robson made him a little fishing rod with a line dangling from it. And there was Gazza, sitting on the side of the big bath in the Wembley dressing-rooms, with his fishing rod. Not a real fishing rod but something they created out of the stuff they found in the medical skip. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.