Paul Gascoigne has arrived at court for the second day of his sexual assault trial.
The former Rangers star, 52, is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger on a train when he gave her a sloppy drunken kiss in August last year.
Teeside Crown Court heard yesterday how the ex-Newcastle United, Spurs, Middlesbrough and Everton midfielder had "seemed drunk" on the train, which was travelling between York and Newcastle.
In his opening of the trial, prosecutor William Mousley QC said: "This case concerns a brief but unpleasant assault with sexual overtones on a train by a drunken male stranger in his 50s.
"He put his hands on her cheeks and kissed her forcibly and sloppily on the lips."
The court heard the victim called police after getting off the train and at the time had no idea about his identity.
It was only a week later that she read who he was, jurors were told.
Gascoigne was traced to a hotel in Jesmond, Newcastle, that night and told officers on the phone he knew what it was about - "he had, in his words, 'kissed a fat lass'," Mousley said.
