ENGLAND hero Gary Lineker has come clean on his Italia ’90 debacle and admitted he took one for the team by refusing to go off.
The former Tottenham and Leicester marksman revealed in a History Channel documentary that he was desperate to leave the pitch but didn’t want to let his Three Lions team-mates down.
The Match of the Day host had been suffering with a troublesome tummy before the match and had a terrible sense that the worst was yet to come.
But, having bravely refused to dash off the pitch and leave his nation a man down against Ireland in the group clash, he stretched for a ball and lost control of his bowels.
Lineker said: “I had a bit of a dickie stomach, I don’t know where it came from.
“I managed to get through the first half despite terrible stomach cramps.
“You know, it’s a World Cup, you cannot say ‘Excuse me, ref, is it alright if I pop off for five minutes?’
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