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Life stories - gazza

Dave2l
Dave2l Posts: 8,880
edited November 2011 in Other Football and Sports
Best life stories so far. Good on a night when England beat the world/euro champs.
He's a legend hope he stays well.
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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,952
    hope he stays well, of course, and yes was a legend on the pitch but he was a prat, is a prat and will continue to be a prat. His comment about being happy to date a two-bagger proved that point.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    yeah great man,some users like that wife and stepson and daughter who have not helped
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,952
    yeah great man,some users like that wife and stepson and daughter who have not helped



    Think you can add Danny Baker and Chris Evans to that list too, in my opinion.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    yep i agree
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Think if he concentrates on making a footballer out if his nephew, pass on his wisdom, hel be alrite.
  • les_says
    les_says Posts: 934
    fascinating viewing. 

    it was noticeably heavily edited, i imagine it was a long and painful interview.
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,689
    Any interview involving Piers Morgan is going to be long and painful...
  • SE10
    SE10 Posts: 2,169

    Legend.

    What he's been through isn't his own problem, It's an illness.

    Been surrounded by users as someone said above. Best of luck to him.

  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,974
    I so hope i'm wrong but you cant help but think that the Gazza story will not end well.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    still looks frail

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,569

    Yes............it looks like a tragedy in the making. (Not that it hasn't been already of course).

    It's like watching a movie where there seems to be an inevitability about the ending.

  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    Don't care how great a footballer he was. Can't like anyone tarnished with domestic violence.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,569
    Didn't watch it but didn't he break his wife's fingers at one point? Whether it was down to drink or not I don't get these 'legend' and 'great man' accolades.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,569
    Don't care how great a footballer he was. Can't like anyone tarnished with domestic violence.
    Wasn't all one-way 73.....they used to take chunks out of one another by all accounts.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    Don't care how great a footballer he was. Can't like anyone tarnished with domestic violence.
    Wasn't all one-way 73.....they used to take chunks out of one another by all accounts.
    Wasn't referring to your post. Just gave my opinion in general.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    My first ever non charlton footballing hero
  • Valley27000
    Valley27000 Posts: 3,417
    I hope Gazza stays off the drink.
  • sunbury-addick
    sunbury-addick Posts: 1,931
    Agree with Piers, best English player I ever saw till he twatted his knee in the Cup Final, never the same after. Never saw Bobby Charlton and older in their pomp.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,494

    Legend.

    What he's been through isn't his own problem, It's an illness.

    Been surrounded by users as someone said above. Best of luck to him.

    No offence to alcoholics, but I'm sick of hearing all this 'it's an illness' or 'it's a disease'. No. It isn't.

  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,863

    Legend.

    What he's been through isn't his own problem, It's an illness.

    Been surrounded by users as someone said above. Best of luck to him.

    No offence to alcoholics, but I'm sick of hearing all this 'it's an illness' or 'it's a disease'. No. It isn't.


    Take it you know fuck all about it then mate.

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  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    its a illness,some people are unable to drink like normal human beings,i was one when i drunk i drank till there was not any more ,never enjoyed it ,but when i had the first one all you care about is the next one.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,569

    I have a very dear friend Eamon who's a hopeless alcoholic..yet strangely I have a number of pals who actually drink more than he does and aren't..now how strange is that?

    It's definately an addiction the question is I suppose is addiction an illness and at what point in the downward spiral does it become so?

    In exreme cases it most certainly IS an illness.

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,190
    Gazza is a legend.

    Him and Lineker both my early football hero's, cant believe they both played for the yids.
  • thecrazyaddick
    thecrazyaddick Posts: 607
    Agree with SoundAs. I understand why people such as LA consider it not to be an illness.... that mentality of

     "surely you can just stop drinking, you just don't have the mental toughness to stop"

    same as the majority of society were ignorant of mental illnesses until fairly recently.

    I have a close uncle who was told 20 years ago his liver was screwed and he'd die in 3 years if he didn't stop drinking. He's still going (just), but can't go a day with out at least 5 pints of Guiness. Very sad.


  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,405
    Also an addiction that causes a multitude of illness
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,494
    Take it you do then? It's not an 'illness' or a 'disease'. No doctor would tell you that it is. It's a mental condition.

    And I'm not your 'mate' - as far as I'm aware, we've never met.

  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,569
    Take it you do then? It's not an 'illness' or a 'disease'. No doctor would tell you that it is. It's a mental condition. And I'm not your 'mate' - as far as I'm aware, we've never met.
    Oh dear!
  • thecrazyaddick
    thecrazyaddick Posts: 607
    How about mental illness..?

    LA - you're post seemed to imply that alcoholism isn't an illness / condition or disease. I know that's not what you wrote... but it was the tone of the post.

    I can say for sure it does also manifest itself physically as well, from experience.




  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,084
    Heard him on TalkSport last year saying he was paying £6k a month to his ex wife & kids. If that doesn't drive you to drink, then I'm not sure what would.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,974
    To suggest alcoholism isn't an illness is just pure ignorance.

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