Today Paul Gascoigne has been on show,
advertising his DVD (and Blueray) called unsurprisingly Gascoigne,
which is released on June 15th. He has been interviewed by Colin
Murray on Talksport which was very funny, though you will have to
listen very carefully to get some of the words and punchlines. The
interview is on this link:-
I saw him do his knee ligaments at
Wembley in the Spurs v Forest Cup Final, a rash challenge to say the
least. I suffered with him in his England shirt 1990 and marvelled
at him in 1996. So he has made a film to get his point across.
The Daily Telegraph also gives him four
columns. Writer, Oliver Brown, met Gazza in the Langham Hotel at
11.21am exactly. The interview revealed Gascoigne's love of football,
where he said he only ever felt safe on the pitch. He admits to
taking cocaine, being in car crashes, got divorced and been in rehab
as well as having to suffer having his phone hacked and have many
lies told about him in various tabloids, which eventually won him
£188,000 damages last month.
Gazza is now 48 years old and maybe on
the mend?
With Kenny Samson sitting on a park
bench with a bottle in his hand and George Best dead, let us hope
that Gazza is “belatedly preparing to step back from the
precipice”.
David Goldblatt's exceptional volume
“The Ball is Round” an exceptional Global History of Football,
makes only three references to Gascoigne:-
the penalty shoot out in 1990 against
West Germany and Gascoigne's yellow card which would make him miss
the Final of the World Cup, had England won!
the mismanagement of Gascoigne which
led to his downfall through having too much fame and money,
and finally his venture into China and
the resultant shambles of his signing with Jia B side The Heavenly
Horse Club, in 2003. No Jia A club would have him!
Make your own mind up, buy the DVD.
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