Paul Gascoigne

From f-word rants, to full-on haymakers, to a failure of humour: what happens when the man in the middle fights back?

FIFA World Cup Whoever eventually misses out on Russia 2018, they’ll have to go some way to match these jaw-dropping omissions

England Hotshot striker turned broadcaster tells us about his England team-mates: from the magic of Gascoigne to the player you'd hate to be around if you lost 

England We all remember those few good moments, and the bad ones... and a lot of very, very bad ones...

Premier League Football is our national game, yet in 62 years of SPOTY, just five footballers have won the main award. So why does the British public tend to ignore the sport it loves most? 

Like Harry Enfield’s obnoxious Loadsamoney waving wads of cash around in the Thatcherite ’80s, footballers – and FIFA officials – aren’t shy about letting the world know just how loaded they are...