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  • #62
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Motivator wrote: »
    Sympathy is the feeling people have towards Gazza and rightly so. He is and always has been a very troubled figure. He had a hugely difficult childhood as it was and then one of his best pals got run down and killed in front of him. His escape from a life that was destined to go nowhere was football but this in turn proved to be his downfall. He was manipulated by agents, coaches and owners of football clubs. Throw in the hangers on that he had and the tabloid press in England and it was a disaster from the start for him. Literally everywhere he went people wanted a piece of him or wanted to try and stitch him up.

    There’s a very good documentary on YouTube about his time at Lazio. He was a god in Rome but one thing that stood out for me was when he mentioned his money. I can’t remember the exact figure he was on every month but I think it was £30,000, he said he only saw a small percentage of it because everyone had their hands out. He’s a vulnerable and weak person and any story I’vr heard or book I’ve read about him he is spoken of very fondly by all the players he played with and against. He’s a sick person and I won’t read any story about him on the Daily Mail, The Sun or The Mirror website. What they did to him for years was bad enough but they’re constantly at him even now - long after he’s retired. Just leave the man alone.
    He was certainly taken advantage of by everyone and I think he was to childish to see it.
    When his team were in negotiatons for his big money move to Spurs his mother phoned him and told him she wanted a house in the deal.
    Gazza gets this thrown in or so he believes,then his Dad rang and says he wants a new car and he secures that for his Dad.

    Then his Sister phones him and says she wants a top of the range sunbed and gazza himself phones Terry Venables and tells him they need this sunbed to get the deal done.Venebles agrees.

    For me that sunbed sums up what Gazzas life as a footballer was all about and why there has to be whip rounds to get him the help he needs with his demons.


  • #63
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    One scored an absolute screamer against the Scots, the other didn't.


    Glib as that sounds it's the simple truth of the matter.

    Scored a belter against arsenal as well.

    COYS


  • #64
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    As I already said I don’t excuse any of his behavior.im just saying there is a lot of mitigating factors that would have huge effect on the way he acts.

    There is no mental illness or addiction that causes someone to sadistically beat, headbutt, punch or throw someone down a flight of stairs. He's had more (and better) chances than 99% of people with the same issues as him.


  • #65
    AlanG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭AlanG


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    They said Scotland Yard examined the letter and stated it was real.they also had the same ira member under surveillance at the time if its to be believed.it is plausible though

    The IRA was a secret organisation at the time - the very act of someone claiming to be a member of the IRA was most certainly an indication that they were not a member.


  • #66
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,730 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Scored a belter against arsenal as well.

    COYS

    Yeah, broke me heart with that one, mind you. :o


    Post Italia '90 he was arguably, along with Baggio, the best footballer on the planet. Right up until the cup final injury. Never quite the same after that imo. But even still, better than most.


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  • #67
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Motivator wrote: »
    Sympathy is the feeling people have towards Gazza and rightly so. He is and always has been a very troubled figure. He had a hugely difficult childhood as it was and then one of his best pals got run down and killed in front of him. His escape from a life that was destined to go nowhere was football but this in turn proved to be his downfall. He was manipulated by agents, coaches and owners of football clubs. Throw in the hangers on that he had and the tabloid press in England and it was a disaster from the start for him. Literally everywhere he went people wanted a piece of him or wanted to try and stitch him up.

    There’s a very good documentary on YouTube about his time at Lazio. He was a god in Rome but one thing that stood out for me was when he mentioned his money. I can’t remember the exact figure he was on every month but I think it was £30,000, he said he only saw a small percentage of it because everyone had their hands out. He’s a vulnerable and weak person and any story I’vr heard or book I’ve read about him he is spoken of very fondly by all the players he played with and against. He’s a sick person and I won’t read any story about him on the Daily Mail, The Sun or The Mirror website. What they did to him for years was bad enough but they’re constantly at him even now - long after he’s retired. Just leave the man alone.

    The slant you are putting on this is imo because he is or was a successful football player. You are just proving to me at least that what I said in my OP is true.

    The Mirror and other media outlets are merely reporting that he was charged with sexual assault this week. The reports in the tabloids did not got to town on his woeful character in a way that they could do and have often done to other ppl. The British press in my experience has never 'gone after gazza'. He has always been treated way too kindly in stark contrast to the way the British tabloids treat other people, including Wayne Rooney.

    The worst thing about this is that he knows it. So he'll do what he likes without any fear that he will loose respect.


  • #68
    Mysterypunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Paul McGrath is one we can relate to. He gets tagged as a "gentleman" but can be a very nasty individual when things don't go his way. The Irish media tend to ignore his run in's

    Leave Paul McGrath alone. What about gazza and moatey and a few cans and a fishing rod. What was the story there?


  • #69
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    AllForIt wrote: »
    The slant you are putting on this is imo because he is or was a successful football player. You are just proving to me at least that what I said in my OP is true.

    Your OP was half-baked nonsense.

    End of.


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