“… The date was October 27, 2005, and Paul Gascoigne, one of the most naturally gifted English footballers of all time, was spelling out his grand plans for Kettering Town, having just been announced as their new manager. Gascoigne was speaking at a packed out press conference to mark the momentous occasion for Kettering, a historic non-League club playing in the sixth tier of English football. Gascoigne, who had a prominent bandage on his neck following an accident on a Christmas ice-skating special of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing, was sat next to another decorated ex-professional footballer, former Arsenal midfielder Paul Davis, who had agreed to work alongside him as his assistant. …”
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