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Scholes on the wing.Get the old band back together. Gerrard and Lampard sitting deep together, Rooney and Gazza floating ahead of them, like two peanut-filled, unflushable turds.
Scholes on the wing.Get the old band back together. Gerrard and Lampard sitting deep together, Rooney and Gazza floating ahead of them, like two peanut-filled, unflushable turds.
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Has anyone seen or heard of him lately?He's amazing.
This 100%I always worry when this is bumped.
Me too. He looks awful these daysI always worry when this is bumped.
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.Tweet
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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.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.
He was an extremely hard working midfielder who unfortunately due to a rash tackle on Gary Charles fecked his career up, in fact he probably became half the player he was.
He reminds me if a cross between laudrup and Robson (if that's possible), in regards to today's players, I'd say he was a stronger Modric with flashes of Herrera.
Anyone agree with that comparison?
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.
Sadly very true.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.
Excuse me, what? We need more players with mental health issues and drinking problems so that we can laugh at their wacky hijinks?One off character, need more people with personalities like his in football, genuinely had fun, too many robots now.
Amazing, isn't it.Excuse me, what? We need more players with mental health issues and drinking problems so that we can laugh at their wacky hijinks?
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.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.
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.He tried, went to Spurs instead after they offered to buy his parents a house in Newcastle
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.You can romance all you want about Gascoigne but he's simply never performed at the highest level and all your wanting won't change that.
Wtf ? That could cause blood poisoningI 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
Yes best he's looked in a while.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
When the thread was bumped many posters feared the worst so it's just to counter act that.The title is a bit disrespectful tbh.
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The guy said we need more characters in the game, which problems aside Gazza was.Excuse me, what? We need more players with mental health issues and drinking problems so that we can laugh at their wacky hijinks?
ExactlyThe 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.
Because his mental health problems defined the person he was/is.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.
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.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.
If you click on the Twitter link it says the extract is from a book, tbh looks quite readable.That's fecking brilliant,Id say he was some craic back in those days.
Has he a book out or something ?
As a teenager? He was 23 at Italia 90. Sadly the highlight of his career when really he should only have been getting started.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.