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Paul Gascoigne | Still living
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He's amazing.
Has anyone seen or heard of him lately?
I live quite near him and a friend of a friend said he spoke to him around 6 weeks ago and was literally on deaths door, not long to live.
I actually thought he looked much better last time I saw him?
I always worry when this is bumped.
This 100%
Gazza's life is like an adult version of a Beano strip.
Me too. He looks awful these days
One off character, need more people with personalities like his in football, genuinely had fun, too many robots now.
These stories are brilliant but they're also part of his problem. He's spent years dining out on these anecdotes, being dragged around the country for people to 'laugh with him' and get him sloshed. Ay, he's a laugh. But the whole circuit has done nothing to help his issues.
Alcoholism is a strange addiction in terms of how it's perceived and accepted to some extent. People who knew George Best still talk fondly of his drunken escapades as if it demonstrates Best's charm. The truth is such behaviour was part of his miserable path to early death. It's like talking fondly about a junky who can't stop taking crystal meth.
Last pictures I saw of him, I'd rather not have seen.
Pmsl Gazza was a genius he was more like a cross between Scholes (had his passing range) Gerrard (for his moments of magic) plus he could dribble past 2-3 players. What a player the best English midfielder I've seen. Scholes and Robson were also majestic but couldn't touch Gazza imo.
In an environment when the word is bandied about far too readily, Gazza was genuinely world class.
Damn shame Fergie went on holiday when he thought he had Gazza in the bag. Even Gazza expresses regret over his choice these days.
Damn shame Fergie went on holiday when he thought he had Gazza in the bag. Even Gazza expresses regret over his choice these days.
That's fecking brilliant,Id say he was some craic back in those days.
Has he a book out or something ?
Sadly very true.
Lineker used to read the papers to him on the coach to matches. Gazza could barely read.
Excuse me, what? We need more players with mental health issues and drinking problems so that we can laugh at their wacky hijinks?
Amazing, isn't it.
Good post. I can understand why people find Gazza's past escapades funny, as in isolation, they are funny in the context of a young lad on the lash with his mates, but in the context of the man's entire life, it is very sad.
And United fans have a song which sort of glorifies George Best's alcoholism. I might just be being a bit of a miserable sod, but I'm just not a fan of the chant. My uncle died from alcoholism, and it was a terrible strain on the family for many years. Making light of such a destructive addiction seems a little crass to me.
Apparently in his late teens he bossed a Robson, Whiteside and Moses midfield in a league game against Newcastle, and Ferguson told Martin Edwards to get it done. Gascoigne apparently told Ferguson he would sign, until Spurs bribed his family.
Asserting that he never performed at the highest level is simply incorrect. His contribution, as a teenager, to the England World Cup campaign in 1990 was huge (struggling to think of a higher level), and had global impact. If he'd have been born in Sao Paulo rather than Gateshead, we'd still be talking about his almost single-handed destruction of a European Championship winning Dutch side comprising Gullit, Koeman et al in the group stages of the competition.
He certainly didn't deliver consistently enough to develop into a great - a huge injury early in his career and his addictions/mental illness saw to that.
And you English guys wonder why the Ingerland squad never does anything.. Well they do a lot but little related to football it seems they are on holidays at Magaluf..
Gazza is a crazy alcoholic bastard and is good for a laugh.. But I sure wouldn´t want to trade places with him.
Gazza is a crazy alcoholic bastard and is good for a laugh.. But I sure wouldn´t want to trade places with him.
Saw a picture of him recently and thankfully he was looking better than Ive seen him in the last decade. I'll see if I can find it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...scoigne-looks-healthy-happy-FA-Cup-final.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...scoigne-looks-healthy-happy-FA-Cup-final.html
I read his autobiography recently. It was brilliant.
A story about putting his turd in some mince pies and letting his friends eat them was rotten though
A story about putting his turd in some mince pies and letting his friends eat them was rotten though
Wtf ? That could cause blood poisoning
The title is a bit disrespectful tbh.
Yes best he's looked in a while.
When the thread was bumped many posters feared the worst so it's just to counter act that.
Looked alright the other night. Didn't grow up with him like some of yous but it's great to see him doing well.
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The guy said we need more characters in the game, which problems aside Gazza was.
How did you turn that into a desire for more players with mental health problems?
Crazy how posts get twisted.
Exactly
Because his mental health problems defined the person he was/is.
You can't have one without the other.
We can laugh about the hi-jinks of him getting plastered at Italia 90 but as others have commented, they contribute to his drinking problem and it's not something that should be looked upon fondly or taken lightly.
Utter rubbish, he was a character before the drinking and before the mental health issues. I remember seeing him play for England early on as a 21 year old and him waving to the crowd as he dribbled past an Albanian player. As the teams walked out on to the pitch he waved at the fans whilst rubbing the then England assistant managers bald head. Before he had a drinking problem, before any issues had arrived, just a young exhuberant lad who liked to show off with the ball and have fun.
The poster was making point that we need more characters in the game. Gascoigne didnt become a character when he started drinking or when the mental health issues kicked in, he was a character before that. The poster wasnt asking for more alcoholics or people with mental health issues. As the other poster mentioned, stuff gets spun all out of context in here.
edit: I remember he scored a superb solo goal in that game too
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If you click on the Twitter link it says the extract is from a book, tbh looks quite readable.
Ffs
Don't wanna go into details about his personal life, choices and drinking/mental problems but he did have a great sense of humor in his early days.
As a teenager? He was 23 at Italia 90. Sadly the highlight of his career when really he should only have been getting started.