‘The worst thing about Gazza? Being on the receiving end of some of his practical jokes! I rarely was, he knew better, but some were quite disgusting…’ Gary Lineker on the pros and cons of being Paul Gascoigne’s team-mate

Gary Lineker congratulates Paul Gascoigne after a Tottenham goal against Hartlepool in 1990.

You’d struggle to find two more contrasting personalities on a football pitch - and in a dressing room - than Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne.

The former was one of the best poachers that English football has ever produced and his straight-laced ways on the pitch, where he played more than 650 games without ever being shown a yellow card, were matched by his professionalism off the pitch.