Paul Gascoigne - terrible waste

[Groke]

what a ****

 

[ayrshire_blue]

With every year that passes, Gascoigne becomes a better player in people's memories.

Over rated, woman beating bellend.

 

[bennyboy]

what a ****

Instead of making a young kids day he does that.
Okay though he did the imaginary flute playing to please the fans.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

This. The game has changed, even the pitches are different. Gazza was of his time. I am confident Foden will be of his.

Absolutely, 80's and even early 90's he was playing with and against other players who's idea of post match recovery was a few pints.

 

[GunnerGer]

Absolutely, 80's and even early 90's he was playing with and against other players who's idea of post match recovery was a few pints.

And he was probably worst out of all of them.

 

[jma]

It was quite outrageous .
The fact that it is known as the "Gary Charles" tackle says it all.

Disgraceful tackle. And was at the time too, even by the standards then.

As an aside, Gary Charles went on to have demons not too dissimilar to Gascoigne.

Gascoigne is an arsehole and someone to have sympathy for - they aren't mutually exclusive.

He is also not fit to compare careers and achievements with some of the other greats of the English game, whilst simultaneously being significantly more technically talented than most of them as a footballer. That's not a contradiction either. His pure footballing ability was off the scale. But, as others have pointed out, this isn't the only characteristic that goes into making a truly all time great footballer.

And, yes, in my opinion he was never anywhere near as good once he had that injury. In fact, I would say he was pretty shite, at the highest level, once he left Lazio. He was picked on reputation for too long before Hoddle binned him from England.

 

[Dobsy]

Italia 90 was a very low scoring defensive so it was difficult for any player to stand out. But besides that he was certainly England's best player performance wise in the 90,s.

He showed a lot more than flashes of brilliance for England.

You can't compare gazza with foden because foden is playing with a team who own the ball against 90% of teams they play against.

Gazza played for a mediocre spurs side. And please ballotelli. Gazza was a far intelligent and disciplined player than ballotelli. Ridiculous comparison.

On the one hand you say you can't compare but on the other hand say Gascoigne was better. You can't have it both ways.

I've tried to be polite but I'll be honest now. I came up in the generation as he was on the wane but videos exist. English football has become way faster, more competitive and skilful since Gascoigne played in it; he wouldn't make it today, not a chance. The only reason he's considered a great is because the press present him as an everyman, "one of us" character because he liked a beer.

He never achieved in his whole career what Foden has achieved aged 21 because he wasn't as good. *That* is the ridiculous comparison.

 

[BLUEYESTU]

Come on theres no need for that, keep it clean :-)

Very good :-)

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

Instead of making a young kids day he does that.
Okay though he did the imaginary flute playing to please the fans.

Probably appeared on stage at a club later that evening to proclaim and sing about how he hates Catholics and the Pope, as well

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

Gascoigne got very lucky by being very good, not world class, at a time england were shit,injurys alone stopped paul lake being twice the player “good old gazza” was