You alright, yourself? Your post was itself a bit Gascoigney.
Best line ever "there was no booze" after scanning the contents of his trolley!!, typical of how a Caf member thinks!Did he have any info on Pogba?
Don't know how he's doing right now, but in the past he has certainly struggled with both. It wasn't just the booze, he suffered badly from depression, etc.
You know fuck all about Paul Gasgoigne. The fact you have suffered from addiction means nothing. Your earlier comment is a disgraceful thing to say and if that's the kind of individual you are I hope it comes back to bite you on your arse.
His life is a roller coaster. The S*n sit and wait for the downs and plaster their rag with it but are rarely interested when he picks himself up.
Yep I bet that is one of his demons, regretting not signing for Fergie when he was so close to doing so. He could have done it all with us, sad really.
If you see his interviews about his drinking he tends to have long periods of sobriety, 9, 12 and 18 months at a time and then relapses quite badly for a short period.
Yeah. I worked with an ex-tabloid journo a couple of years back and he was an absolute prick. Had this bitter, nasty view of the world and thought everyone else should subscribe to it. Also kept complaining about our editorial style because, according to him, it was boring compared to the red-tops.
Of course racism is wrong but the man is mentally ill, where is the point in prosecuting him for this? Who's going to gain anything?
Its a message to kids. Don't be like Gazza.
Just because he may be suffering from a mental illness does not excuse racism and the point of prosecuting him has nothing to do with Gazza - it has to do with the person he directed the abuse towards - they deserve to have the protection of the judicial system from stuff like this. People tend to hide behind the excuse of mental illness for a multiude of sins but it's rarely to do with a mental illness, rather a person being a prick.
Gazza is an alcoholic/former alcoholic with a multitude of mental illness, he's not in any way shape or form to accurately monitor the things he says or is goaded into or whatever. You say so clearly mental illness is no excuse but actually it is, we don't know the particular context and furthermore the example you use to back up your point is utterly irrelevant. Just become someone may have cheated the system (then again, maybe she did genuinely have a mental illness) doesn't mean everyone with mental illness is doing so. In fact, it's your attitude towards mental illness that perpetuates the stigma around it.
Quite the opposite actually - I'm arguing against the very stigma you are highlighting - people with mental illness do not generally do stuff like steal, be racist or be anti-social in general. That is my point - for people to link mental illness to such behaviour is wrong imo.
Plenty of people with mental illness go about doing the things you're saying? I'm unclear as to why you think otherwise. The stigma clearly comes from saying 'Gazza is an idiot' then saying he may or may not have a mental illness - there is no doubt - he does. How do you know that his 'idiocy' isn't linked to his mental illness which seems to have started around the time one of his close friends died.
Plenty of people WITHOUT ANY MENTAL ILLNESS go about doing the things I am saying also - what on earth is your point? I'm not saying people (with or without mental illness) are not capable of being racist- I'm saying that if they are a racist it is because they are a complete prat - not because they are mentally ill.
Yes of course but that doesn't mean mental illness, especially in someone like Gazza's case with the alcoholism on top, means he isn't un-inhibited in the extreme, to the point whereby nothing would really belie belief. The ends will people go in desperation to cry for attention etc? No-one is excusing racism but it'd be incorrect thinking mental illness doesn't make people do, say, think or act in ways they don't want to or even realise.
Doubt he'll get called up by English NT to save it mate, let it go.
It's not that straightforward, though. The purpose of the law is to protect the weakest in society. In this instance there's an argument - I'm not saying I agree with it btw - that the person who needs protection is the person with the illness. You're quite right, though. Not all mentally ill people say what he said. And, similar to the John Terry case, I'd argue that the language used doesn't just pop into your head from nowhere. It's usually part of who you are or has formed part of the currency of your home life or upbringing, whether or not you actually use the language openly.
I think it is this key point that I think is both false and intellectually dishonest.
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.
Good points made, I also think he should have been charged but due to the circumstances of his life and mind, Gazza is now a man convicted of racism but in my head I don't think of him as a racist, rather a man who is severely troubled and long ago lost the ability to function properly in society.
Well that is your opinion - I can assure you i'm not being 'intellectually dishonest' when I say that racism is not a symptom of mental illness. Clearly you have made up your mind on Gazza and as he is a 'severely troubled' (not doubting that at all by the way) man you appear to think that he should be able to get away with saying whatever he wants.
Well I'm glad we do agree on something then.
