Friday 24 March 2017 13:38, UK
England icon Terry Butcher talked Diego Maradona, Italia '90 and that blood-soaked night in Sweden on The Fantasy Football Club.
With England looking to take another step towards the 2018 World Cup in Russia with victory over Lithuania on Sunday, the former Three Lions captain looked back on some key moments in his career for the 'In The Picture' feature on the show.
Read on for Butcher's memories of some of the highs and lows of his playing days...
A day firmly etched in my mind. It's the most iconic image of my career and a lot of people recognise that. If I ever go out to a function, and people don't know who I am, I tell them to Google my name and this image will come up. I was captain of England at the time and we were playing a World Cup qualifier away against our bogey team Sweden.
It was one of those games were it was nip and tuck and very close. They had beaten us before and we hadn't beaten them for years and years. It was a tough fixture for us. I went for the ball, thought I could head it and smashed the back of the Swedish striker's head. This image was taken once the game had finished but I was like that in the first half - I used my two shirts I had up! It was one of those games where everybody of the pitch had a bit of my blood on their body, shorts or socks.
I gave a fist pump to the fans and the press and that proved to be the talking point after the goalless draw. I gave it the eyes and that was the picture that was sent across the world. Nowadays I wouldn't have been allowed to play, I'd have been taken off and stitched up. Fortunately, that's the picture everybody remembers me by.
A picture of me, Chris Woods and Gary Stevens on the beach at a place called Is Molas in Sardinia. It was beautiful, absolutely gorgeous. We had everything; facilities, sunbeds and pedalos. I remember one instance where Gazza said 'come on, let's go out on the pedalo'. He and I were pedalling away and Gazza, as he did, got bored quickly. He saw Chris Woods' and Gary Stephens wives and all of a sudden he started pedalling quickly. The girls could see us coming and started pedalling faster themselves - and it was like a scene from Jaws!
Gazza goes 'we're going to ram them', we did and ended up on top of their boat and they dived into the water to get away. The guys that owned the pedalos were going bananas on the shore, they thought it was a shipwreck. The girls were swimming away and then Sandra, Gary's wife, was running along the beach to get to the sunbeds. Gazza spots a tennis ball, picks it up and throws it with pace about 30 yards and caught Sandra on the calf and she went down.
She got up and limped towards the sunbed and you could see Gary and Chris were doubled up with laughter. They loved it and we got a round of applause when we got in because it was the funniest thing that could happen, normally things are so boring when you're away but with Gazza it was mayhem.
I knew that picture of me and Diego Maradona would come up. That's the closest I ever got to him on the pitch, apart from the doping room after the game where I did ask him if he'd handled or headed the ball and he said he headed the ball. If he'd have said he handled the ball my hand would have been around his throat. He was clever as well as a very good player.
That was a sickening moment for us in many respects. In the picture itself I think he's on his way through to Peter Shilton. Terry Fenwick couldn't bring him down because he'd already been carded. I was only player he actually beats twice. Once on the halfway line after I'd shown him inside to Peter Reid. Peter was chugging away, running on fumes, his race was run.
I've come round on a big arch but he went past Peter Shilton, leaving him with a tap-in. I couldn't see any of the ball so I went around the player to try and get a touch on the ball. If I'd have got the ball it would have been one of the greatest tackles in World Cup history, instead he scored one of the greatest goals in history, but not for me because he beat me twice.
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