Neil 'Razor' Ruddock has revealed he almost ended Alan Shearer's career before it even began when the former England captain stepped on shattered glass and severed three toes in a desperate attempt to stop a minibar being swiped from his hotel room.
Football hardman Razor, 52, and Shearer, 50, were team-mates at Southampton when the Premier League's all-time record goalscorer's toes were left 'hanging on by the skin' when the prank went badly wrong during a boozy pre-season tour.
And the former Spurs and Liverpool star has credited ex-Burnley defender Steve Davis for saving Shearer's career, as he was the only Saints player sober enough to take him to hospital to rescue his toes.