Gary Lineker
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Shit myself.
Yeah.
Shit gate.
Shit gate.
Well, shit gate didn't really come to light.
Well, it did at the time, obviously, but for about 20 years.
No one seemed to know.
Obviously, my teammates knew and...
I did tell family, but I was interviewed about 20 years later and the last question was, you know, there's a rumour that you had an accident on the pitch in Italia 19.
I told the story and then it sort of went viral.
I mean, it was the opening game of the World Cup in 1990.
We were playing in Cagliari, and I hadn't very well overnight.
My stomach was off.
I don't know what it was.
Food poisoning, was it?
I don't think it was probably food.
It might have been, or a bug.
It might be nerves or something.
I don't think so.
So...