1. Anthony Guy Cascarino was born on 1 September 1962 and is a former professional footballer who played as a striker for various British and French clubs and internationally for the Republic of Ireland national team, with whom he competed in UEFA Euro 1988 and two World Cups in 1990 and 1994.
Tony Cascarino has worked for both Sky Sports in England and TV3 and Today FM in Ireland.
Tony Cascarino was a winning participant in the fourth season of the Celebrity Bainisteoir reality television series.
Tony Cascarino was born in St Paul's Cray, Kent, on 1 September 1962 to an Italian father and an English mother.
Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham in 1982 from Crockenhill, and according to Tony Cascarino Gillingham donated tracksuits and training equipment to Crockenhill in lieu of a transfer fee.
Tony Cascarino signed for Marseille as a free agent in 1994.
Tony Cascarino ended his career with Red Star 93 in the third tier of French football, but terminated his contract with the club in August 2000 after just two appearances.
Tony Cascarino was offered a contract to return to Nancy but refused.
Tony Cascarino was eligible to play for both Scotland and Italy because of his Scottish and Italian descent.
Tony Cascarino made his international debut against Switzerland in September 1985, during Ireland's ill-fated qualification campaign for the 1986 World Cup.
Tony Cascarino would go on to feature for Ireland in three major tournaments: Euro 1988, the 1990 World Cup and the 1994 World Cup.
Tony Cascarino got into a brawl with a Turkish defender and left the pitch showing the scars of battle.
In October 2000, Tony Cascarino was the subject of national newspaper headlines when extracts from his upcoming autobiography were published in the Sunday Mirror.
Tony Cascarino revealed that Republic of Ireland teammate Andy Townsend had advised him to keep quiet about the situation.
Since retiring from football, Tony Cascarino has become a semi-professional poker player, having appeared in the television series Celebrity Poker Club and commentating on the PartyPoker Poker Den.
Tony Cascarino joined talkSPORT as a pundit in 2002 and presented the afternoon Drive Time show with Patrick Kinghorn between 2003 and 2005.
Tony Cascarino was involved in an on-air bust-up with Kinghorn after the latter remarked that the married Cascarino had been "chasing that 21-year-old around the office", which prompted Cascarino to lunge at Kinghorn and punch him.
Tony Cascarino left the station in 2005 but soon returned as a pundit and has co-presented the Weekend Sports Breakfast since 2016.
Tony Cascarino entered into a relationship with his third wife, Jo, in 2009 and their son, Rocco, was born in 2015; they married in Mauritius in November 2019.
Cascarino produced an autobiography in 2000, Full Time: The Secret Life of Tony Cascarino, which received great critical acclaim.
Tony Cascarino revealed that during his time at Marseille, he and many other of the club's players were injected by club president Bernard Tapie's personal physician with an unknown substance.
Tony Cascarino said most players accepted the injections and that "it definitely made a difference: I felt sharper, more energetic, hungrier for the ball".