SO concerned is the Star for Paul Gascoigne that once more it shines a flash light on his “troubled” head and hints that he might be dead before too long.
“GAZZA: THE END,” says the headline, words writ in funereal jet black ink. “Sectioned yet again & drunk for a month. Yesterday he gives up.”
“Save our Gazza,” says the Mirror, the Sun’s “troubled England clown”.
“PLEASE SAVE HIM,” pleads the Sun’s front-page headline. “Dazed and confused … Paul Gascoigne slumps in chair,” says the caption to a picture of Gascoigne sitting in a hairdresser’s chair.
Were this chair a dentist’s chair Gazza would be tipped back and liquor poured down his neck by a bevy of topless footballers.
But that’s the Gazza of old. This is the new Gascoigne, who is routinely compared the George Best, the football great who drank himself to death.
The Star hears from Gazza’s sister, and deduces: “Now she is desperate to stop her brother from following in the tragic footsteps of fellow soccer legend George Best, who died in 2005 at the age of 59.”
Gascoigne is 41, and the last thing the tabloid wants is 18 years of news about a footballing legend drinking to excess and behaving erratically.
Indeed.
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June 4th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Paula, latest (if true) is Gazza has been sectioned for 3 months in a mental hospital.
Keep an eye on the newspapers to find out which one and mail your card to him there. Look up the hospital on the web for the address and, whilst there, have a look and see if there is an option to “e-mail a patient”.
When George Best was in the Westminster Hospital, I did just that, and e-mailed him there on 3 occasions over the 6 weeks before he died. A few weeks later, I got the most beautiful and very personal reply from his sister, Barbara.
The Best family had read each and every single one of the e-mails, cards and letters that had poured in for George during their long vigil by his bedside and she answered every one of them.
I hope this helps.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Paul Gascoigne was a good friend to me and my children back in the 90’s.
His wife Sheryl was one of my clients, Sheryl and I became friends as our
children were of similar ages.
As I was a single parent struggling financially with two children, Paul paid for me and my children to fly out and stay with him when he played for Lazio. I also stayed at his home in Glasgow when he played for Rangers.
I have lost touch with him now and do not know how to contact him.
I feel deep sadness at what I have read in the papers about him and am sick that over
the years he has had bad press. There is so much good and kindness about him, he
has a heart of gold.
I totally empathise with Anna Gascoigne, as I myself lost my brother under terrible circumstances, which has changed my life completely. Paul himself knew I was the life and soul, but now I live my life an almost solitary confinement, due to me losing my brother. I do not want Paul’s family to go what my family have been through.
I have a get well card I would like passed on to him, if anyone knows his whereabouts. He needs to know that people do genuinely care about him.
I would appreaciate it if anyone reads this message who knows Paul, would mind passing my card on to him.
Regards,
Paula Chappell
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 am
“good” news is not always “nice” news….
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
Here, here coolandcalm!
I also wish the paparatzzi would stop stalking him. Papers paying big money for photos of Gazza looking down and out and then putting a headline like “Help our Gazza!” is a joke.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 am
I wish the authorities would make a stand and section him for being ‘a danger to himself or to others’.
The powers are there, he IS a danger to himself and I hope they all hang their heads in shame. Depression can be the most deadly illness……..