Paul Gasgoigne in hospital after heavy drinking!

DenMan

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11050108/Paul-Gascoigne-in-hospital-after-being-found-drunk-outside-his-home.html


Hope Paul Gasgoigne gets through this really bad time in his life! Be brave Gazza!

Oranage2

Yeah seen the recent photos of him and he looks in a bad way, wouldn't be shocked if he dies this year.



Edit - wasn't a joke just a badly timed expression.

NIMAN

I would hope no bookie would offer that bet.

Hoping he gets better looks to be a waste as I think he is only going one way. Such a shame as he was a great character and a really gifted footballer.

He looks way older than his years and I would not be surprised if he doesn't see 50.

P_1

Hope he gets the right short and long term help. I have a sad feeling that he might be going the same way as George Best though

LuckyLloyd

He's only 47 ffs! Those photos are incredibly depressing.

Pighead

Wow, was only reading about him yesterday. There was a bit on BBC saying how he was on the verge of playing for a Sunday League team. Although reading it again it does come across as if the taxi driver who manages the Sunday League team got a drunk Gascoigne to sign a piece of paper. Poor Gazza looks awful in those pics.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28876767

Oranage2

Oranage2 wrote: »

Yeah seen the recent photos of him and he looks in a bad way, I wonder what odds you'd get on him to die this year?

Not funny tbh

death1234567

Oranage2 wrote: »

I wonder what odds you'd get on him to die this year?

:eek:

GavRedKing

Seen the pictures this morning, horrible place to be at any stage of your life, as being mentioned that facts hes "only" 47 but looks years older shows the demons hes fighting with.

TBH it looks liek a matter of time before hes gone and I wouldnt be shocked, as morbid as that sounds.

gimmick

death1234567 wrote: »

:eek:

Figure of speech Id imagine.

kevpants

He needs to be sectioned and if necessary held against his will to receive in-patient treatment. He's a seriously mentally ill man and someone close to him needs to take control of the situation and do this for him. Unfortunately he doesn't appear to have anyone in his life that cares enough.

Richard Hillman

The best thing for him is to move to somewhere like Saudi Arabia.

SEPT 23 1989

Brilliant player,f you are in your mid thirties or over having watched him play at his very best when you were a kid he was up there with Pele and Maradonna

I will remember him like that not like this

thebaz

as someone who is in recovery know how hard it is to stay on the wagon, but really wish Paul a huge welcome back , a football genius who was the first real superstar of the modern age in the UK , after his heroics at Italia '90 , saw him playing a few times for Spurs and he was class - get well soon and welcome back to recovery we're all in this together , super stars and just us ordinary folk.

NIMAN

kevpants wrote: »

He needs to be sectioned and if necessary held against his will to receive in-patient treatment. He's a seriously mentally ill man and someone close to him needs to take control of the situation and do this for him. Unfortunately he doesn't appear to have anyone in his life that cares enough.

Unfortunately there is not much family can do for people this bad, if they can't do anything to help themselves then there is no hope.

2smiggy

was he playing the flute ?

Paully D

thebaz wrote: »

as someone who is in recovery know how hard it is to stay on the wagon, but really wish Paul a huge welcome back , a football genius who was the first real superstar of the modern age in the UK , after his heroics at Italia '90 , saw him playing a few times for Spurs and he was class - get well soon and welcome back to recovery we're all in this together , super stars and just us ordinary folk.

Good luck mate.

Nerdlingr

Fair play to Harry Redknapp
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/22/harry-redknapp-paul-gascoigne-qpr

Wish there were more people in the game who would try to help those who've fallen on hard times out of it. I know ultimately it falls on the person thmeslves but its sad to see the likes of Gazza, Kenny Samson etc down and out.

As a side note, I saw Neville Southall in the crowd last night for the Wales V England Ladies game. He was always a big man but f*ck me...he's HUUUGE now.

kfallon

As a matter of interest, where's his 'mate' 5 bellies these days?

He looks awful, like death warmed up!

DenMan

kfallon wrote: »

As a matter of interest, where's his 'mate' 5 bellies these days?

He looks awful, like death warmed up!

Last year he tried to help him!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5009230/paul-gascoigne-best-pal-jimmy-five-bellies-flies-home-to-save-footie-star.html?teaser=true

kfallon

DenMan wrote: »

Laat year he tried to help him!

Fair enough, I'll take your word for it, not clicking that link considering where it came from!

DenMan

kfallon wrote: »

Fair enough, I'll take your word for it, not clicking that link considering where it came from!

I don't buy/read it myself either. Found him on a quick google!

Sunglasses Ron

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Wish there were more people in the game who would try to help those who've fallen on hard times out of it. I know ultimately it falls on the person thmeslves but its sad to see the likes of Gazza, Kenny Samson etc down and out.
.

Makes you wonder, are there any top flight alcoholics left in the game? The likes of Rooney, Andy Carroll cop occasional flak/ for what some see as a bit of a party lifestyle but it has never been on the level of accusing them of the level of dependency the likes of Gazza, McGrath etc had. With the influx of more clean living pros from abroad do these type of players simply get found out before they have a chance to make it big?

NIMAN

Look at the attention Jack Wilshere got for having a fag on his holidays (and by fag I mean cigarette).

Lapin

kevpants wrote: »

He needs to be sectioned and if necessary held against his will to receive in-patient treatment. He's a seriously mentally ill man and someone close to him needs to take control of the situation and do this for him. Unfortunately he doesn't appear to have anyone in his life that cares enough.

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Wish there were more people in the game who would try to help those who've fallen on hard times out of it.

Some of his former teamates, including Gary Linekar paid for Gazza's two month rehabilitation treatment and other costs un the US last year at a cost of tens of thoudands.

As others have said, you can't keep carrying others. Its incredibly sad but you have to let go at some stage.

Sir Gallagher

kevpants wrote: »

He needs to be sectioned and if necessary held against his will to receive in-patient treatment. He's a seriously mentally ill man and someone close to him needs to take control of the situation and do this for him. Unfortunately he doesn't appear to have anyone in his life that cares enough.

That's a very unfair thing to say about his friends & family, you can only help someone so much.

Sunglasses Ron

NIMAN wrote: »

Look at the attention Jack Wilshere got for having a fag on his holidays (and by fag I mean cigarette).

Smoking among continental players is very common and seemingly non controversial. Balotelli, Gallas, Zidane just off the top of my head, there must be loads more. The French, Italians, Spanish etc have always thought of the anti smoking lobby as nanny staters, compared to here and the UK where even most smokers concede they are doing a necessary job.

I'm sure plenty of UK/ Irish players smoke but they seem more obliged to keep it hidden.

Cantona's Collars

Bump,

Looks like he's having a pretty public meltdown on twitter: https://twitter.com/gazza8gascoigne

Should give the rags something to write about for the next few days.

ricero

Besides being an alcoholic and all that I always wondered was he ever diagnosed with a learning difficulty or a type of retardation when he was younger ?

Feel sorry for the guy don't think he will ever find peace unfortunately.

Charlie19

It's hardly his real account.

Cantona's Collars

Charlie19 wrote: »

It's hardly his real account.

It is,there's another that's fake.

ricero

ricero wrote: »

Besides being an alcoholic and all that I always wondered was he ever diagnosed with a learning difficulty or a type of retardation when he was younger ?

Feel sorry for the guy don't think he will ever find peace unfortunately.

He has mental health issues and from reading about him a few years ago they seem pretty severe.

I'd say his alcohol problems stem from a lot of that.

Jon Stark

ricero wrote: »

Besides being an alcoholic and all that I always wondered was he ever diagnosed with a learning difficulty or a type of retardation when he was younger ?

Feel sorry for the guy don't think he will ever find peace unfortunately.

Retardation isn't the best word to use. He clearly has mental health difficulties other than addiction.

I feel so sorry for people like Gascoigne, he was surrounded by hangers on telling him he was grand when he clearly wasn't, now they're gone and the Man is just a shell.

thebaz

Jon Stark wrote: »

Retardation isn't the best word to use. He clearly has mental health difficulties other than addiction.

I feel so sorry for people like Gascoigne, he was surrounded by hangers on telling him he was grand when he clearly wasn't, now they're gone and the Man is just a shell.

agree, horrible use of word - as an ex-problem drinker myself, I would say most of us that I know had learning difficulties growing up, and a generation ago they went untreated , certainly in my case , just deemed stupid in school. Today the facilities and education is much better and understating - took me a long time to overcome difficulties i had reading and languages. So wish Gazza well , from baz.
Many of us so called stupid people went on to excel in other areas, just not education academia. Rant over.

dreamers75

Like most gifted footballers, I doubt school was his or parents priority once they seen what he could with a football.

miroslavklose

ricero wrote: »

Besides being an alcoholic and all that I always wondered was he ever diagnosed with a learning difficulty or a type of retardation when he was younger ?

Feel sorry for the guy don't think he will ever find peace unfortunately.

He's been seriously disturbed from a young age, when he saw his best friend's brother killed. He has serious problems with alcohol too. It's heartbreaking to see how he is.

Every time it looks like he might be sorting himself out there's a bump.

blueser

Just seen some of the pictures that were in The Sun today. Shattering to see what he looks like now. I hope the journalists responsible for that story are proud of themselves.

That_Guy

blueser wrote: »

Just seen some of the pictures that were in The Sun today. Shattering to see what he looks like now. I hope the journalists responsible for that story are proud of themselves.

Supposedly they've been following him around for a while.

razorblunt

What else would you expect from that rag. They were pretty happy in the article that they also published photos back in March of him in another bad state, Absolute scum.

ikeano29

Why do people still buy that paper anyway, I wouldn't even click on thier web page, scum...

Leave the man alone to do whatever the fcuk he wants

ben.schlomo

ikeano29 wrote: »

Why do people still buy that paper anyway, I wouldn't even click on thier web page, scum...

Leave the man alone to do whatever the fcuk he wants

I find many people in day-to-day life to be utterly moronic, I assume these are the sort of people who buy it.

DeanAustin

ben.schlomo wrote: »

I find many people in day-to-day life to be utterly moronic, I assume these are the sort of people who buy it.

Couldn't agree more - people who read The Sun are idiots. The people who work for The Sun are worse. Absolute filth. What a way to make a living, I'd rather be on the dole.

Sadly, I can't see Gazza lasting too much longer.

scudzilla

Wonder where his so called 'mates' are now, that Five Bellies guy, fcukin leeches

thebaz

ikeano29 wrote: »

Why do people still buy that paper anyway, I wouldn't even click on thier web page, scum...

Leave the man alone to do whatever the fcuk he wants

and then when the inevitable happens, they'll be all remorseful saying why didn't we do more to help him in his time of need - with all the money slushing around English football today , and following Englands pitiful collapse at the Euros , Gazza was the last real English football superstar , setting the way for todays millionaires , and he's now on Skid Row , hounded by the very media that helped create him. Beyond sad,

scudzilla

scudzilla wrote: »

Wonder where his so called 'mates' are now, that Five Bellies guy, fcukin leeches

Who knows. He may have burned bridges for a variety of reasons.

There's only one person who can really help gazza and that's himself. Even that may be difficult as from reading some of his books from years ago he definitely has mental health issues that can only be getting progressively worse.

His old football buddies have stumped up cash for treatment a few times afaik,but what can you do if somebody keeps falling off the wagon again and again.

Addiction and mental health problems are complex. It's sad to see someone's played out in the media.

topmanamillion

Don't understand the love in for this wife beater.
I say good riddance.

The_Kew_Tour

Can't stand the man, but not right just to stalk him either.

Billy86

Could be lies, but sadly is looks like that Jimmy Five Bellies has been trying to make amends for a while (or had been, two years ago) - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gazzas-former-best-mate-jimmy-4387340

LiamoSail

ben.schlomo wrote: »

I find many people in day-to-day life to be utterly moronic, I assume these are the sort of people who buy it.

You just know Gazza is the exact type of person who buys it himself