Ex-England footballer charged with sexual assault

Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been accused of sexually assaulting a lady on board a train, British Transport Police said on Monday.



The ex-Tottenham and Lazio player was accused of "one check of rape by contacting", said a representative for the power.

The 51-year-old, who has battled with liquor abuse since he resigned from best flight football, was captured at Durham station in upper east England on August 20.

He is expected to show up in a justices' court on December 11.

Gascoigne — known as "Gazza" — made his name with Newcastle before proceeding to play for Tottenham, Italian monsters Lazio and a few different groups including Glasgow Rangers.

The midfielder, generally viewed as a standout amongst the most capable players of his age, was likewise a key individual from the England side that achieved the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy. He won 57 tops altogether.

Gascoigne was one of the primary huge name footballers to touch base in China when he settled on the stun choice to be a player-mentor of second division Gansu Tianma in 2003 yet he kept going only a bunch of amusements.

In 2016, he was fined and requested to pay by a court in the wake of making a supremacist remark to a dark security watch at his "An Evening with Gazza" appear.

In a meeting distributed on Tottenham's site a year ago, he stated, "Now and again when I think back and individuals say to me 'do you lament anything in your vocation?'

"Maybe I left Spurs too soon. I adored it there. The players, the staff, everybody was class and the camaraderie was remarkable outright class. We had an extraordinary group.

"Individuals discuss me being somewhat of a joker, messing about, yet we had around 15 in that squad."

A month ago Gascoigne's selection for a place in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame was pulled back, with authorities communicating worries over the condition of his wellbeing