GORAM: I SHOULD HAVE SAVED THAT WEMBLEY GEM

ANDY GORAM, one of the two fall-guys with Colin Hendry for Paul Gascoigne’s iconic Euro 96 goal, against Scotland admitted: “I should have saved it.”

What was more galling for the experienced keeper was that he and Gazza were Rangers team-mates.

“The volley that followed after Gazza had danced around Colin Hendry was true and well hit, but I look back now and curse myself because I feel I should have saved it,” said Goram (left).

He then had a close up view of Gazza’s ‘dentist’s chair’ celebrations, which have now gone down in England folklore.

“I felt sick, but deep down from somewhere I still managed to laugh to myself,” revealed Goram.

“Only Gazza could do something like that. At the end of the game, though, our pre-match agreement to swap shirts meant nothing to me.

“I just wanted to get off the pitch. He walked towards me with a big smile on his face, but saw that the storm was gathering.

“If he had said a word, I would have smashed him. I would have had to knock him clean out because I was hurting too much.

“He took one quick glance, saw the thunder in my face and kept on walking.”

But there was still no escape from the memory of Scotland’s hurtful day when Goram returned to Ibrox for pre-season training.

“I walked into the dressing room on the first day of pre-season training and Gazza had set up two traffic cones as a goal at one end,” he added.

“In the middle of the room, there was another cone with a white mophead stuck on it. That was supposed to be big ‘Braveheart’ Colin Hendry.

“Gazza was running up and down flicking the ball over the mophead and volleying it in screaming, ‘Gascoigne scores for England!’

“He was a flaming lunatic – but that was his moment of glory.”