PAUL GASCOIGNE brutally taunted Roy Keane with comments about his “wife” when the pair faced each other, the England legend has revealed.
Gascoigne, 56, and Keane, 52, played against one another in the early 1990s when the former was at Tottenham and the later with Nottingham Forest.
Among the games included the 1991 FA Cup final which Spurs won 2-1 after extra time.
And as much as Gazza tormented opponents with his skill on the ball, he was equally devastating without it.
The iconic midfielder was known for winding up players with his relentless trash talk during games.
And Gascoigne has now revealed he once joked with Keane that he was going to take out his “wife” that evening, despite the Irishman not being married.
Speaking on the High Performance Podcast, Gazza said: “Whoever was marking us I’d talk, talk them to bits.
“Roy Keane was the best, when they said he was going to be the new kid on the block. I said ‘new kid?’ and I just talked to him all through the game.
“He said ‘Gazza, please shut up’. I’d say ‘I’m taking your wife out tonight’. [He said] ‘I’m not married’.
“I said ‘you are, she’s in the stands, look’, he’d look up, he’d say ‘Gazza, stop it!’.”
And Man Utd legend Keane was not the only midfielder that reacted to Gascoigne’s verbal antics.
Ex-Leicester and Blackburn man Robbie Savage was another left frustrated by Gazza’s enslaught.
Gazza added: “I remember playing against Robbie Savage, he was having a go at us, I just started talking to him and ruined him. He played midfield.
“The second half when we came out, Robbie moved to right-back, I looked at him and said ‘come on, mark us’, he went ‘no, you talk too much’.”
