Vinnie Jones was called a lot of things in his footballing career – a thug, a bully, an enforcer, a crusher, the dirtiest player at the league’s dirtiest club.
No one ever called him a gentleman, especially not Paul Gascoigne, who was famously photographed getting the worst of an encounter with the Wimbledon midfield enforcer in 1988.
Jostling Gazza before a free kick, Jones reached down and, using a technique he later claimed to have learned in an under-12s squad, grabbed his crotch – hard. The referee didn’t see it but, as Gascoigne doubled over, veteran sports snapper Monte Fresco did.
That was the
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