Gareth Southgate Pizza Hut advert: Watch the England manager's classic Euro '96 paper bag penalty apology

Tom Doyle30 November 2016

England's new manager Gareth Southgate has come a long way since 1996.

The former defender experienced a career low of missing a vital Wembley penalty to see hosts England knocked out of Euro '96 by Germany - and pizza was a particularly cheesy form of penitence.

Southgate sought to get over the miss by getting involved in Pizza Hut's advertising campaign after the tournament, wearing a now-famous paper bag over his head at dinner with fellow England penalty failures Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle.

Waddle and Pearce - whose misses at the 1990 World Cup cost England against West Germany - are the ones ribbing the incognito Southgate, with Pearce cajoling his team-mate by suggesting that it only took him six years to get over his own miss.

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Southgate ends the ad by scrunching up the paper bag and banishing his demons, saying: "Thanks a lot boys, I feel much better now!"

The new Three Lions boss duly walks into a wall. Not a great look, but 20 years on, Southgate is in charge of England's 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign.

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