That was how I read it while channel-hopping late last night.
But no, the programme was in fact called Surviving Gazza. A great deal more difficult, I'm sure.
I have never understood the cult of Paul Gascoigne. He has always embodied many of the worst and none of the best features of the North East. The only variation has been as to which bad features in particular. That has varied as his (always rather modest) footballing ability has declined with ravages, not merely of age, but mostly of self-imposition.
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That has varied as his (always rather modest) footballing ability has declined with ravages, not merely of age, but mostly of self-imposition.
ReplyDeleteThey dont make programs about footballers with modest ability IMHO,Gaza had great potential which unfortunately he could'nt fulfill..prehaps it explains his demons today
"They dont make programs about footballers with modest ability"
ReplyDeleteThen they would scarcely make them about British footballers at all. Beckham is getting on a bit for a professional player. The likes of George Best and Bobby Moore are dead.
Gazza was a classic Newcastle United supporter and a classic England supporter: the latter has won nothing since 1966 (at home), the former since all the way back in 1955; but trying explaining to the fans what that must mean.
Gazza was always good at being a tabloid celebrity, and at appealing to a certain mawkish streak with his tears and what have (the back story, of exactly why he was crying, is conventiently forgotten).
Tragically, he still is.
He also conformed the Southern upper-middle-class view of the North East preferred or simply presupposed by the London media.
Tragically, he still does.
But none of this has ever had very much to do with football itself.
In fact, I sometimes wonder why the really big Premiership clubs still bother with football. They are so rich that they could name a "squad" of simple beneficiaries of some sort of trust fund.
The fashion, the glamour, the gossip, the drugs, the drink, the sex, the lot could then just carry on as before, with no need for training sessions or what have you. Wo would notice?