{"id":286755,"date":"2023-09-07T23:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=286755"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:37:33","slug":"exclusive-julian-dicks-claims-gazza-scuppered-chances-of-england-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/exclusive-julian-dicks-claims-gazza-scuppered-chances-of-england-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Julian Dicks claims Gazza scuppered chances of England cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>EXCLUSIVE: West Ham cult hero Julian Dicks claims Gazza scuppered his chances of an England cap<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Julian Dicks has said he failed to gain a senior England cap because of &#8216;Gazza&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Former West Ham hardman Dicks said Paul Gascoigne &#8216;tarnished&#8217; his reputation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But he added that Gazza is &#8216;the most brilliant bloke&#8217; and that they got on very well<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Football hardman Julian Dicks has claimed he failed to gain a senior England cap due to Gazza &#8216;tarnishing&#8217; his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The former West Ham captain, who played more than 250 times for the Premier League club, also revealed he would regularly down whisky before a match and once burned a team-mate&#8217;s bottom with a hot iron.<\/p>\n<p>Dicks, who also starred for Liverpool and Birmingham during an 11-year top flight career, said after he was called up to play for England Inder 21s at a tournament in Toulon, he was made to room with Paul Gascoigne, who on Thursday gave Prince William a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Dicks disclosed in his new biography &#8216;Hammer Time&#8217;: &#8216;The only problem with him as a room-mate was that he just did not sleep, which really didn&#8217;t bode well in terms of me getting any rest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And when he didn&#8217;t sleep, he also had to keep himself entertained.\u00a0There was one day when I looked up to see him leaning out of the window in our room\u2026holding a tube of toothpaste, squirting it at whoever was passing below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75189153-12493905-image-m-59_1694124792023.jpg\" height=\"529\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Julian Dicks claimed he did not get a senior England cap due to Gazza tarnishing his reputation<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75189113-12493905-image-a-60_1694124873691.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The former West Ham captain played more than 250 times for the Premier League club<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75190153-12493905-image-m-77_1694126049990.jpg\" height=\"589\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>And he opened up on the antics of iconic former midfielder Paul &#8216;Gazza&#8217; Gascoigne (centre)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75189107-12493905-image-m-63_1694124931974.jpg\" height=\"610\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dicks he added that Gascoigne is &#8216;the most brilliant bloke&#8217; and they got on very well together<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even if I did manage to fall asleep, with Gazza as a room-mate there were no guarantees I would be I would be allowed to remain dozing.\u00a0One night when I was enjoying my kip, I didn&#8217;t know it but Gazza was busy preparing a little show for me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The crazy Geordie had bought loads of firecrackers and had carefully lined them up around the rim of the toilet, before lighting them all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You cannot imagine how loud the noise was that woke me up. I absolutely s*** myself, sprang out of bed, ran straight out of the room and into the hotel corridor, without a stitch of clothing on, with my hands covering my privates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was convinced a bomb had gone off, until I saw Gazza emerge from the room laughing his head off.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said within minutes the hallway was full of players and England management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was standing in the middle of the corridor, totally naked, with my hands protecting my modesty. What a sight that must have been.\u00a0Once again, Gazza got away with it, as I ended up taking most of the blame for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I actually think there was a good chance that episode contributed to the dim view that was taken of me by the England management in years to come, helping to tarnish my reputation which meant I never received a full England cap, or call up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his dim view of Gazza&#8217;s antics, Dicks describes him as &#8216;the most brilliant bloke, incredible fun to be with, always laughing\u2026 there is nothing he wouldn&#8217;t do for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75189111-12493905-image-a-64_1694124964010.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gascoigne (left) gave Prince William (right) a kiss when they met in a shop on Thursday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75189101-12493905-image-a-65_1694125028468.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dicks also revealed he would regularly down whisky before a match and once burned a team-mate&#8217;s bottom with a hot iron.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75189119-12493905-image-a-66_1694125057628.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0last job was as manager of Essex team Heybridge Swifts, which he gave up in 2021<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/23\/75190157-12493905-image-a-79_1694126066800.jpg\" height=\"462\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hammer Time&#8217; by JUlian Dicks, published by Headline<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He would give you his last fiver if you needed it. And he obviously loved a drink so we got on very well&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Dicks, who became popular at West Ham for his tough-tackling and fearsome penalty taking, revealed he would drink Jack Daniels and Coke in his hotel room on the night before games, would abhor having to warm up pre-kick off and hated running with his team mates.<\/p>\n<p>His preferred choice of warming up minutes before kick-off was to soak in the bath, down Coca-Cola and chomp on Mars bars.<\/p>\n<p>He also decried the innovation of multi-cameras from every angle focussing on matches which mean every illicit move is captured, revealing he got away with deliberately elbowing Everton&#8217;s Trevor Steven and other misdemeanours which today can result in retrospective action with officials being helped by eagle-eyed VAR.<\/p>\n<p>But as well as being fierce on the pitch, Dicks reveals he was also prone to injuring team-mates while attempting pranks.<\/p>\n<p>On the night before an away match with Hull, he picked up a hot iron in the team hotel and left his mark on the buttocks of his team mate Mark Ward because he wouldn&#8217;t share the TV remote control.<\/p>\n<p>Ward returned the compliment by smearing chocolate under Dicks&#8217; duvet which led to him waking up thinking he had soiled himself, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dicks, who is 55 and now a grandfather, managed West Ham women&#8217;s team between 2014 and 2015 and his last job was as manager of Essex team Heybridge Swifts, which he gave up in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Hammer Time&#8217; by Julian Dicks, published by Headline<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12493905\/Julian-Dicks-claims-Gazza-scuppered-chances-England-cap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: West Ham cult hero Julian Dicks claims Gazza scuppered his chances of an England cap Julian Dicks has said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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