Peter Crouch's father can sympathise with England and Manchester United defender Harry Maguire after seeing him mocked following his own goal against Scotland on Tuesday.
"It had an effect,""He was very stoic. He took it on the chin, didn't let anyone know what he felt. But at that point I was worried because he had hidden away inside his flat and wasn't coming out."I moved up there for a week and I had to convince him the world wasn't laughing at him and that was really difficult."
"It did happen, where I was sitting in close proximity to people who were delivering the abuse. That is really difficult," he added.
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