Paul Gascoigne - terrible waste

without being daft as a brush and the drink you would not get the world class gazza
forget anybody trying to control him or i would have change gazza lifestyle and stopped the drink and partying ?

the simple fact is that was gazza's make up. he needed that sort of lifestyle and drink to get the best out of him at the weekends or game time. when your born a superstar footballer and its easy to do the things other have to work on all the time in training you get bored ? in fact you fall out of love of football and don't get the buzz anymore.

it pains you to train every day and your mind is on something else. you don't want to come to training because you feel your above all that and don't need it to play at the weekends. so turn to something to take the pain away ?

i can bet gazza was drinking at a early age in youth football ? i have seen it before young players drinking and smoking weed doing all the wrong stuff. then turning up to train and making it look so easy and head and shoulders above the rest.

the only thing that could have helped gazza is modern day football and the club you play for ? gazza would have been picked up at a early age like 9 or 10. then the top academies would have signed him from newcastle at 13 or 14.

if you are at a top academy like city then you have it all and your in full control. from schooling to training and eating and sleeping even working out to burn all the energy building up. in fact you have not much time to doing anything else but sleep.

so gazza of the 90s is just him ? nobody could have helped him just like many others that went down that road.
if you offered him the chance to do it all again he would not change a thing and make the same mistakes
 
I saw Gazza play a few times in the late 80’s. In fact my Dad’s last ever football match he ever went to before he passed away, was because he wanted to see Gazza play ‘in the flesh’. I don’t care whatever anyone on here says, he was world class. If he hadn’t had his problems, which he obviously had, on and off the pitch his career would have gone on for many years.
The nearest talented English midfielder I’ve seen since him is Foden. Rooney, was a striker, so I don’t count him in the same way although his raw talent as a young player was unbelievable. I hope Foden can go on an surpass Gazza’s achievements in an England shirt, which to some, may be limited, but if you were old enough to truly remember the feeling when he scored that goal v Scotland at Wembley it lives with you forever. I still get goosebumps when I see it.
 
normskih said:
I saw Gazza play a few times in the late 80’s. In fact my Dad’s last ever football match he ever went to before he passed away, was because he wanted to see Gazza play ‘in the flesh’. I don’t care whatever anyone on here says, he was world class. If he hadn’t had his problems, which he obviously had, on and off the pitch his career would have gone on for many years.
The nearest talented English midfielder I’ve seen since him is Foden. Rooney, was a striker, so I don’t count him in the same way although his raw talent as a young player was unbelievable. I hope Foden can go on an surpass Gazza’s achievements in an England shirt, which to some, may be limited, but if you were old enough to truly remember the feeling when he scored that goal v Scotland at Wembley it lives with you forever. I still get goosebumps when I see it.
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He really did influence games for England as well even past his prime in euro 96. People say he didn't win anything for England. What England player did apart from Bobby Charlton.

I would say gazza has been England's best and most influential since Bobby Charlton.

Scholes, beckham, lampard, gerrard have had much more successful careers for their clubs. But none of them came anywhere near to gazzas influence on the
national team.

For all the hype about beckham being England's great hope and one of the worlds greatest players. He was anonymous in all the international tournaments he played in.

The English press and pundits were building him up to the player that gazza actual was. It was an absolute joke.

I don't know what other countries must have been thinking when they saw that a player of such limited ability was been hyped like that by the English media and pundits.
 
normskih said:
I saw Gazza play a few times in the late 80’s. In fact my Dad’s last ever football match he ever went to before he passed away, was because he wanted to see Gazza play ‘in the flesh’. I don’t care whatever anyone on here says, he was world class. If he hadn’t had his problems, which he obviously had, on and off the pitch his career would have gone on for many years.
The nearest talented English midfielder I’ve seen since him is Foden. Rooney, was a striker, so I don’t count him in the same way although his raw talent as a young player was unbelievable. I hope Foden can go on an surpass Gazza’s achievements in an England shirt, which to some, may be limited, but if you were old enough to truly remember the feeling when he scored that goal v Scotland at Wembley it lives with you forever. I still get goosebumps when I see it.
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If people think gazza wasn't world class then what English player was.
 
bennyboy said:
World class is club and international football.
I would say he had two decent tournaments.Doesn't make him world class.
The thread is a terrible waste.He certainly was that.
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In fairness at his peak he played with a very mediocre tottenham team. Who mainly played a long ball game. Very hard to consistently shine as a midfielder when the ball was in the air.

When he went to lazio the few games he played in he actual played better as they played a more passing game.

He was great reader of the game and could really control a game when he was fit and sharp.
 
Radiohead1981 said:
He really did influence games for England as well even past his prime in euro 96. People say he didn't win anything for England. What England player did apart from Bobby Charlton.

I would say gazza has been England's best and most influential since Bobby Charlton.

Scholes, beckham, lampard, gerrard have had much more successful careers for their clubs. But none of them came anywhere near to gazzas influence on the
national team.

For all the hype about beckham being England's great hope and one of the worlds greatest players. He was anonymous in all the international tournaments he played in.

The English press and pundits were building him up to the player that gazza actual was. It was an absolute joke.

I don't know what other countries must have been thinking when they saw that a player of such limited ability was been hyped like that by the English media and pundits.
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Though it pains me to say it Becham delivered for England in that 2-2 draw with Greece, he was all over the pitch and then that freekick, if not for that it would have been another embarrassment of not qualifying.

You have to remember that the players don't ask for these comparisons either, not that I can even recall them comparing him to Gazza, hell, Becham wasn't even a dribbler, well not on the pitch anyway lol
 
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