Gazza: FA should have backed Rio
Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne claims the UK Football Association "should have been more understanding" over Rio Ferdinand's drug test row.
Gascoigne, famously left out of the England squad on the eve of the 1998 World Cup by then-manager Glenn Hoddle, claimed other countries would have backed a player in these circumstances.
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