‘Vulnerable yet carefree, mercurial yet troubled, a maverick, a genius, the crackerjack of British football,” Ally McCoist says in an apt introduction to tonight’s talkSPORT special in which there is only one figure for whom the description fits. On the eve of the European Championship, which starts on Friday, McCoist conducts a rare hour-long interview with his former Rangers team-mate and close friend Paul Gascoigne, in which all aspects of his famous personality appear. SponsoredThe boy who made England believe at Euro ’96 talks about those tears, the heartache, the trophies and off-field troubles while revisiting his legendary career in a conversation littered with characteristic “Gazza” punchlines. “What do you call a Scotsman in the second round of the World Cup?” he asks McCoist, the

Source: The Times June 07, 2021 22:52 UTC