Paul Gascoigne once stole Middlesbrough’s brand new team coach and CRASHED before a game

Paul Gascoigne as soon as hijacked Middlesbrough’s brand name spanking new workforce mentor and crashed it just several hours ahead of a match.

The previous England intercontinental was waiting to make the vacation to Aston Villa with his workforce-mates when he resolved to just take the bus for a spin after noticing the keys had been remaining in the ignition.

Gascoigne, who was acknowledged for staying a simple joker in the course of his occupation, intended on taking it to the closest bookies but ended up ‘smashing it up’ and triggering countless numbers of lbs truly worth of damage. 

Gascoigne’s crash triggered Boro to set off for their match at Villa 4 several hours afterwards after they managed to summon a alternative auto for the vacation, which they misplaced 3-one.

Boro manager at the time Bryan Robson exposed the ridiculous tale about Gascoigne in new reserve, Our Gazza: The Untold Tales, staying serialised by The Mirror. 

Talking about the incident, he explained: ‘The threat for Gazza normally came when he got bored or required to phase a prank. One working day at education he resolved to jump on to the workforce mentor and just take it for a ride. He ended smashing it up!

‘It was a brand name-new bus that the club had acquired. Gazza could not resist it because it was so new and had that charming ‘new vehicle’ scent. He intended to push to the area bookies to place some bets on, but he did not get out of the education ground.

‘Instead, he went headlong into a huge rock. When he came into my place of work all sheepish-seeking after the incident I advised him I hoped all his horses would arrive in initial because he was paying out for the damage to the mentor and would be forking out two weeks’ wages in a good.

‘I realized when I signed him he would be up to a little something but I suppose not lots of administrators have had to punish a participant for crashing the workforce mentor.’

Robson’s memory of Gascoigne’s kamikaze vacation on the bus was shared by Paul Merson.

He included: ‘It will have to have cost a gazillion quid because it had just about just about every appliance acknowledged to male on board. Gazza found that the keys had been remaining in the ignition and hoped in. 

‘He started the a single mile push to the closest significant avenue to place some bets on for a number of of the lads. ‘But when he got to the end of the highway that led out of the education ground, he turned suitable and crashed the bus into a concrete bollard.  

‘The facet of the mentor was caved in and the locks on the compartments that contained our package for the next match had been mangled so the doorways have been wedged shut. Gazza was shitting himself at this level. A huge fuss had been designed about the new bus and it was wrecked ahead of the workforce even designed a journey on the motorway.’

Gascoigne expended two several years at Boro between 1998 and 2000 ahead of leaving for Everton.