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9th June 2015
03:26pm BST

"I did one on Di Matteo, who would sometimes get on my nerves. I went back to the villa and there was a little snake. I went back to training in the afternoon and put the snake in his pocket. When we came back in after training I asked him if he had any money. He put his hand in his pocket and nearly shat himself. But at training I put the effort in as well. Once Dino Zoff said Blatter was coming. He wanted us on time in the Lazio suit. I turned up 30 minutes later in a Santa Claus outfit. I sat next to Blatter and said: “Hello, I’m Santa, ho, ho, ho.” The security wanted to get rid of me and Zoff wasn’t happy and made me train morning and afternoon for a week."He also revealed that Jack Charlton 'pestered him like mad' to play for Ireland but that he wanted to wait until Bobby Robson called him into the England squad. A pity really, the stories of Gazza clashing with Big Jack would have been just as enjoyable as watching him play in green. The documentary, Gascoigne, looks worth a watch too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjmApzOo0A
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