![]() ![]() "The team sit around the bar, drinking beers, talking about what had happened. It's only Carling, but it tastes like Dom Perignon," he wrote in his autobiography, Sober. I pull the ring from the can and lager slips down my throat. "I look over to my right and there it is. ![]() The bender that ended all benders kicked off minutes after England’s defeat in the European Championship semi-final, which Tony had been at the helm for.Īfter refusing to drink in the build-up to the tournament, back at the dressing room he reached for a beer and the wheels were in motion. ![]() The following Monday he joined AA and hasn't touched a drop since. Then his torment finally ended at 5pm on a Friday afternoon in August 1996, when, after a six-week bender, he drank his last pint of Guinness, stopped to get some fish and chips, and went home to detox. ![]()
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