To say Steve Bull’s England debut was eventful would be one hell of an understatement.

The Wolves legend famously made his way up to the Three Lions, scoring four goals across 13 appearances and featuring in the 1990 World Cup.

Bull scored goal after goal for Wolves, making his England call-up an inevitability

A striker who was called up just before his 25th birthday, Bull was seen as a young option to cause mayhem up front, and he did exactly that, but not before he experienced some himself.

Bull’s first match would be away at Hampden Park against Scotland in a friendly, and pre-match things kicked off.

“We got to Hampden Park and in the 100 yards to the reception everything hit that bus. Tomatoes, bricks, everything, like someone with a Tommy Gun,” he recalled on the Under The Cosh Podcast.

“Terry Butcher was the last one in and he went straight to the toilet and all we could hear was this crashing sound.

“He came in and stood between us with a toilet seat in his hand and smashes it between us and said ‘We’ve got to kill these j*** bastards’ I went ‘oh Jesus Christ almighty’ I was cowering, I was like ‘is this what it’s really like? Is this what derbies are really like?”

England managed to take control early on in the 20th minute through Chris Waddle, but when John Fashanu went down injured during a rough-and-tumble first half, it was Bull’s time to step up.

Things didn’t go to plan, though, which he blamed Paul Gascoigne for, saying: “I got 12 minutes in the first half and Gazza could have passed the ball to me three times. 

“I was only a kid but I thought I’ve got to speak to him. I got him by the elbow and said pass me the f***ing ball and he said ‘I will pet’ it happened twice more in the second half and I’m fuming at him.”

Bull recalled England’s megastars playing keep ball between them, but it all changed when a hopeful launch into the box headed in his direction.

“The goal came, the ball came over, I jumped and the ball hit me on the shoulder, the ball just dropped and I just hit it,” he remembered. 

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“I’m thinking ‘f*** me, I’ve scored!’ and I’m running towards the J**** celebrating thinking ‘What am I doing you muppet’ so I turned and got on my knees, and who comes over first? Gazza. I went ‘You can f*** straight off’.”

Bull, now 59, remembers how overcome with emotions he was, pointing out that even in the old footage you can see him crying.

Yet those tears soon turned into laughter when he managed to get on the phone to his parents post-match.

Bull asked his mum if his dad saw the goal and was taken aback when she said he wasn’t very happy.

He then hilariously quoted his mum as saying: “I was sitting there watching the game with a bowl on my lap scraping potatoes for dinner and when you scored I jumped up and these potatoes went everywhere, your dad’s had no tea!”

Bull would score three more goals for England including a double against Czechoslovakia and another effort versus Tunisia.

However, he’ll be best remembered as one of Wolves’ greatest-ever players, making a massive 474 appearances for his boyhood side and netting a whopping 250 goals.