Signed Gazza presentation from Italia 1990

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Gazza played in all three of the group games at World Cup held in Italy in 1990 as England topped their group, providing the assist for Mark Wright's winner against Egypt. In the first knockout game against Belgium he notched another assist. With the score at 0-0 towards the end of extra time. Gascoigne got the ball in the middle of the pitch and attacked, winning a free kick. He chipped the ball into the penalty area and David Platt volleyed the ball into net to send England into the quarter-finals where they played Cameroon. Gascoigne was at the centre of the action again when he gave away a penalty which Cameroon scored from. England were 2-1 down in the last ten minutes of the match, but Gascoigne's tenacity and range of passing and reading of the game was evident. In extra time he found Gary Lineker with a perfectly-weighted through-ball from which Lineker won and subsequently scored a penalty, which proved to be the winning goal.

On 4 July 1990 England played West Germany in the World Cup semi-final in Turin. After going 1-0 down early in the second half, Gascoigne's Spurs team-mate Gary Lineker equalised for England with ten minutes remaining to force extra time. Gascoigne, having already received a yellow card during England's 1-0 victory over Belgium in the second round, showed his tenacity again as he went on a surging run but lost the ball. As he was trying to regain it he caught Thomas Berthold and was booked, which meant that he would be suspended for the World Cup Final if England won the match. Gascoigne was shattered by this and his subsequent tears became one of football's most enduring images. The match culminated in a penalty shoot-out with Gascoigne originally intended to take the third kick, which was scored by Platt, but the Germans eventually won and England failed to reach the final.

A night that Engand fans will never forget.