Paul Gacoigne has revealed that his pre-match ritual with England was to hold striker Les Ferdinand’s massive penis.

Gascoigne told an ‘Evening with Gazza’ charity event at Nine Sports Bar in Newcastle the wonderful story, complete with Ferdinand’s exasperated reaction.

“In the dressing room, Les Ferdinand, I swear down, when he took his clothes off, you should have seen the size of his f***ing c**k. He made mine look small.

“I went ‘Les, Les please, please let me have one f***ing hold of that thing’.

“So he let me have a hold of it.

“And I went out played a blinder and scored, right. I thought ‘f***ing brilliant’.

“So the next game at Wembley, ‘Les get it out’.

“And every time we played for England Les went ‘hurry up and get it over with Gazza’.”