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Looking once more at the Gazza story
Published 2/22/2008 by Lingering Bursitis at Unprofessional Foul
The story about Gascoigne being sectioned yesterday was incredibly sad to me, as it represented the lowest in a history of post-glory lows for one of my favourite all-time players. Some might blithely compare him to Maradona, except Gazza was big on the food and drink, less on the cocaine. He represented the iconic image of a grim 1980s industrialist England, where beer bellies ballooned and a lingering depression held sway. Gazza was the bright spot for a nation, serving up memorable moment after memorable moment in an England shirt while single-handedly fueling the press with his drinking and off-field exploits. Towing the line between ...

Phantoms in Our Known Walks
Published 2/22/2008 by Brian at The Run of Play
Tom and Daryl have both written nice posts about Paul Gascoigne, who was arrested and detained as a mental-health risk yesterday after a series of bizarre incidents in English hotels. The collapse of this great player has been covered with admirable sadness and tact by nearly everyone who’s written about it, and I’ll only add one thing, a quote from Lionel Trilling, for anyone who thinks that Gazza’s genius on the pitch was a symptom of the same fever that led to his madness. “The expressions of many schizophrenic people have the intense appearance of creativity and an ...

Falling From Grace
Published 5/12/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (200percent) at Twohundredpercent
There are few more poignant sights than a prodigious talent that has gone wrong and, for anyone that remembers him in his prime, the descent from grace of Paul Gascoigne has been a long, drawn out affair. Concerns over his substance abuse have long since been replaced over concerns for his overall mental well-being, but the recent life of Paul Gascoigne raises important questions over how football looks after (or rather doesn't look after) its former players. What happens to a man that had spent his whole life dedicated to the game when he can no longer play it? Does football have a moral responsibility to ensure that players have something else to go to ...