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Michael Owen: “After France '98, I’d get home at 1pm every day and sit there until 11pm replying to mail"
By Michael Owen last updated
Between The Lines As Gareth Southgate’s boys have learned, returning from a World Cup having performed heroics for your country can propel a player into a new stratosphere of fame – and it’s not all fun, as Owen explains
Jimmy Glass after football: "No matter how bad things got, I never wished the Carlisle goal hadn’t happened"
By Jimmy Glass last updated
Between The Lines His unbelievable last-gasp goal for Carlisle United on this day 20 years ago will be remembered forever, but what happened to Glass after he saved the Cumbrians from Football League oblivion? He tells all...
What happened to Helmuth Duckadam? “I saved four penalties to win the European Cup... but it was my last ever game”
By Helmuth Duckadam last updated
Between The Lines The goalkeeper's career should have taken off after his heroics denied Barcelona in 1986. But with rumours lingering of a violent intervention by Romania’s communist rulers, he soon disappeared from view
Gennaro Gattuso: "He was really breaking my balls so I lost my temper and stuck a fork in his leg"
By Gennaro Gattuso last updated
Between The Lines He made a career from harnessing his inner rage for club and country. But, as the now-Milan manager admits, every now and then ‘the animal inside would come out’ – with dire consequences for anyone in striking distance. Team-mates included…
Ronaldo's 2002 World Cup redemption... according to him: "In that moment, I felt complete"
By Ronaldo last updated
World Cup 2002 A seizure denied Ronaldo the 1998 World Cup winner’s medal he and many others felt he deserved. Then a string of career-threatening injuries left him facing a long and painful battle against his own body
Tony Adams' demons: "The sweats, hallucinations, terrors... the voices... this is not normal"
By Tony Adams last updated
Between The Lines In a brutally frank account, Adams recalls his turmoil in the build-up to Euro 96, the horror of his suicidal bender after England’s exit – and how Paul Merson of all people helped him sober up
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