strofiwimple
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strofiwimple said:Just saw on the news that he was arrested last night and detained under the mental health act- how sad, even though he played for barcode united he was a truly gifted footballer "flawed genius" is the phrase i think.
Just because you may not be a lover of the beautiful game doesnt mean you have to belittle an obviously troubled person, he is quite an intelligent person but his childish sense of humour makes him an easy target for people to ridicule.NickM said:Football? Genius? Sorry, I don't see any way of connecting the two...
Poor old Gascoigne. So much dosh, so little brain.
If he hadn't been so talented at the so-called beautiful so-called game, then he probably wouldn't have had the cash and adulation thrown at him at an age when he obviously couldn't handle it. He probably wouldn't have then got the kicking in the popular press that he did, or suffered the breakdown that he did. He might also have been left to get on with rebuilding his life.strofiwimple said:Just because you may not be a lover of the beautiful game doesnt mean you have to belittle an obviously troubled person, he is quite an intelligent person but his childish sense of humour makes him an easy target for people to ridicule.
Flippin 'eck - I thought I hated football!!!Twenty Inch said:If he hadn't been so talented at the so-called beautiful so-called game, then he probably wouldn't have had the cash and adulation thrown at him at an age when he obviously couldn't handle it. He probably wouldn't have then got the kicking in the popular press that he did, or suffered the breakdown that he did. He might also have been left to get on with rebuilding his life.
Football is not beautiful or a game. It is a sickening spectacle of obscene wealth, on- and off-pitch violence, cheating, blackguardry and over-indulgence. It is poisoning our public life.
Paul Gascoigne's life is a tragedy and to use this latest tragic event as an excuse to air your petty little prejudices about football is shameful.Twenty Inch said:If he hadn't been so talented at the so-called beautiful so-called game, then he probably wouldn't have had the cash and adulation thrown at him at an age when he obviously couldn't handle it. He probably wouldn't have then got the kicking in the popular press that he did, or suffered the breakdown that he did. He might also have been left to get on with rebuilding his life.
Football is not beautiful or a game. It is a sickening spectacle of obscene wealth, on- and off-pitch violence, cheating, blackguardry and over-indulgence. It is poisoning our public life.
+1QuickDraw said:Paul Gascoigne's life is a tragedy and to use this latest tragic event as an excuse to air your petty little prejudices about football is shameful.
I may or may not love the "beautiful game"; I didn't say. However, genius is not any part of it. Mozart was a genius. Rembrandt was a genius. Einstein was a genius. None of them played football, as far as I know.strofiwimple said:Just because you may not be a lover of the beautiful game doesnt mean you have to belittle an obviously troubled person...
QuickDraw said:Paul Gascoigne's life is a tragedy and to use this latest tragic event as an excuse to air your petty little prejudices about football is shameful.
Just think how much more famous they would have been if they had!NickM said:I may or may not love the "beautiful game"; I didn't say. However, genius is not any part of it. Mozart was a genius. Rembrandt was a genius. Einstein was a genius. None of them played football, as far as I know.