Monday 29 June 2020

PAUL GASCOIGNE et al.

OK granted this actually took place on June 28th 1991, but since I can't find a really good item for the 29th, I'm going for Gazza.

Terry Venables was the newly appointed chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur and he negoatiated the sale of Paul Gascoigne to Lazio Roma at the plush Hyde Park Hotel, Bayswater Road, west of Petersburg Place. Along with the various officials of Spurs and Lazio, there was Gino Santin, a London restaurant owner, who could speak Italian and who assumed the duties of Gazza's agent.

When the two parties couldn't agree the fee to pay Tottenham, the argument continued out in the street and Tottenham were lucky to be offered anything at all.
Gascoigne has badly injured a knee during the 1991 Cup Final on May 20th; I was there and saw it.

At Wembley, Gazza was pumped up, over excited and had already one footed Forest's Garry Parker in the chest with no response from Roger Milford, the Ref.
Gascoigne then went into his second horrible tackle of the game, an horrendous swipe on Gary Charles of Nottingham Forest. Gazza did a cruciate knee legiment  and was unlikely to play much in the foreseeable future. As Spurs owner, Alan Sugar explained; "We are talking about a fuckin' geezer with one leg". Lazio paid £5.5 million for a footballer who missed the entire following season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAfWKU-W7Gk

The FA Cup Final was eventually won by The Spurs, who then had won it most-8 times in the 110th final 1991. They also won it in 1901, 1921, 1961 and 1981. Sequence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWPZMor1b-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPzjvSyOMQY
The final had the lot!

Gascoigne's two shocking tackles; he should have been sent off for the first one.
Pearce's free kick following Gascoigne's second indiscretion, to score after 16 mins.
Gazza madness: It's 20 years on since the moment that defined a ...
Regarding the Forest free kick, did the ref notice the wrestling match on the right end of the wall with 10 and 6?
Then Thorstvedt's save.
Lineker was brought down and missed his pen. Forest keeper, Crossley, who saved the pen, became only the second goalkeeper to save a penalty in the Cup Final, (who else?) should have been sent off? A deliberate foul??
After 90 minutes 1-1.
In extra time.......
Paul Walsh's header hits bar.
Paul Stewart scores with a driven shot after 55'.
David Howell's header. (Did you know his partner's family lived in Totties.) below as a young one with mullett.
david howells
Des Walker's headed OG after 94'. 2-1 SPURS.
Capital One Cup tie between Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham ...
Justin Edinburgh, now deceased, was the last player from that squad to leave Spurs in 2000 and Ian Woan was the last player to leave Forest at the same time.





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