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Gazza

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37406549

Sorry but way over the top in my eyes.... political correctness blah blah
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  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    edited September 2016
    What has the alcoholic wife beating c**t been wrongfully accused of?
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    If people got up and walked out over his 1st joke then maybe they shouldn't be there in the first place. It's hardly Bernard Manning!
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,855
    Swisdom said:

    If people got up and walked out over his 1st joke then maybe they shouldn't be there in the first place. It's hardly Bernard Manning!

    ?
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    edited September 2016

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37406549

    Sorry but way over the top in my eyes.... political correctness blah blah

    Oh dear.
    He broke the law and was banged to rights I'm afraid.
    At a public event it was cringeworthy.

    Might have got away with it at a dinner party with like-minded old dinosaurs.
    But it ain't 1970 anymore.

    Edited.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Police involvement in this case seems excessive; he should have just had to walk off the stage in utter shame to a completely silent audience, and had his cut withheld
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Leuth said:

    Police involvement in this case seems excessive; he should have just had to walk off the stage in utter shame to a completely silent audience, and had his cut withheld

    So mild! When I saw you had posted I had my itchy "Flag" finger ready!

    I don't know what UK laws are around this, so I'll comment with "It's a sh*t thing to say."
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,977

    What has the alcoholic wife beating c**t been wrongfully accused of?

    Remember that goal in Euro 96 tho. Ahhhh.......
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491

    What has the alcoholic wife beating c**t been wrongfully accused of?

    Remember that goal in Euro 96 tho. Ahhhh.......
    Fuck off, that makes it worse for me!
  • Ridiculous case. Why couldn't they have just let it go ffs.
  • Ridiculous case. Why couldn't they have just let it go ffs.

    The PC brigade

    #blacksmilesmatter
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  • Whilst I don't find what he said funny, it's hardly offensive is it.

    Too many people looking to be offended these days.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Jeez.. I do a bit of work for his after dinner speaker agent, who happens to be black, I'll ask his views on it next time I see him
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,735
    Being branded a racist ( which I don't believe he is for one minute ) is the last of Gazza's problems .
    The so called football family should be helping him throughout his problems .
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467

    Being branded a racist ( which I don't believe he is for one minute ) is the last of Gazza's problems .
    The so called football family should be helping him throughout his problems .

    I can only imagine how many ex-footballers have really difficult times adjusting to life after football for any number of reasons. Because they weren't as good as Gazza we don't hear about them (Dallian Atkinson before his death to name but one). There have been a lot of former pros (and as I understand it various organizations) who have tried to help Gazza without success. That is not to blame Gazza, he has from what I've read various mental health issues that he cannot control. But it seems that his problems are so severe that football in whatever capacity as some sort of unified entity is simply not set up to help.
  • Pretty poor taste joke from Gazza, but I am not sure that the police should be getting involved in something that like that - I mean is that really a race hate crime?

    On your second point, I believe he has already had a lot of help from the likes of Gary Mabbut and Chris Evans, but he always seems to end up back at square one. As others have already said on here, addiction is a very powerful and complex issue, and certainly it looks like Gazza is losing his battle at the minute.

    To your broader point though, you could easily argue that it was Italia 90 and the Gazza tears, that really brought the mainstream British public back in love with football again, and that the success of Sky and the PL has been built on the back of that.

    I remember the pre-Sky days when the likes of Carl Leaburn and Tommy Caton, would frequently be seen getting the Number 75 bus to games at Selhurst park - imagine that these days!!
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    But who drove and who collected the fares?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598

    Pretty poor taste joke from Gazza, but I am not sure that the police should be getting involved in something that like that - I mean is that really a race hate crime?

    On your second point, I believe he has already had a lot of help from the likes of Gary Mabbut and Chris Evans, but he always seems to end up back at square one. As others have already said on here, addiction is a very powerful and complex issue, and certainly it looks like Gazza is losing his battle at the minute.

    To your broader point though, you could easily argue that it was Italia 90 and the Gazza tears, that really brought the mainstream British public back in love with football again, and that the success of Sky and the PL has been built on the back of that.

    I remember the pre-Sky days when the likes of Carl Leaburn and Tommy Caton, would frequently be seen getting the Number 75 bus to games at Selhurst park - imagine that these days!!

    Leaburn was often late claiming he'd missed the bus. No one ever questioned him.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    I don't get it
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,242
    Is Paul Ince's story about Gazza saying he looked like a pint of Guinness when he got a head injury in that nil nil in Italy a race hate crime too?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598

    I don't get it

    Leaburn - Missing things
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Carter said:

    Is Paul Ince's story about Gazza saying he looked like a pint of Guinness when he got a head injury in that nil nil in Italy a race hate crime too?

    sssshhh .. this could turn into another multi thousand pound crime fine or six months inside
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    Carter said:

    Is Paul Ince's story about Gazza saying he looked like a pint of Guinness when he got a head injury in that nil nil in Italy a race hate crime too?

    No it isn't a 'race hate' crime. Neither was Gazza's. It was racially aggravated abuse. You don't have to hate to abuse.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited September 2016
    Gazza could at times be a genius on the pitch, but has always been a boy
    off the pitch. The Adult world have always been a step too far for Paul.
    The players union and Ex team mates have tried to help on so many occasions but YOU have to be able to help yourself.

    The Raoul Moat episode When Gascoigne, after having lines of Coke,
    turned up in his dressing grown, with a fishing rod and a food delivery for his "Mate"; showed that Gazza was a couple of chicken wings short of the Bargain bucket.

    The comments made by Paul may of come from our own Jim Davidson's act from 35 years ago, but that is where Gazza wants to be; a 14 year old boy with no Responsibility.
    Because the truth is, Gazza never stopped being a 14 year old Kid.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131

    What has the alcoholic wife beating c**t been wrongfully accused of?

    Gazza beat up his missus, but never got sent off for England.

    Beckham got sent off twice. Maybe if Becks gave posh a bit of a slap we might have won the world cup.




    (I reckon 5 flags by this afternoon.)
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237

    Pretty poor taste joke from Gazza, but I am not sure that the police should be getting involved in something that like that - I mean is that really a race hate crime?

    On your second point, I believe he has already had a lot of help from the likes of Gary Mabbut and Chris Evans, but he always seems to end up back at square one. As others have already said on here, addiction is a very powerful and complex issue, and certainly it looks like Gazza is losing his battle at the minute.

    To your broader point though, you could easily argue that it was Italia 90 and the Gazza tears, that really brought the mainstream British public back in love with football again, and that the success of Sky and the PL has been built on the back of that.

    I remember the pre-Sky days when the likes of Carl Leaburn and Tommy Caton, would frequently be seen getting the Number 75 bus to games at Selhurst park - imagine that these days!!

    Leaburn was often late claiming he'd missed the bus. No one ever questioned him.
    I remember him hitting a few buses when playing in the reserves at Welling.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491

    What has the alcoholic wife beating c**t been wrongfully accused of?

    Gazza beat up his missus, but never got sent off for England.

    Beckham got sent off twice. Maybe if Becks gave posh a bit of a slap we might have won the world cup.




    (I reckon 5 flags by this afternoon.)
    i reckon if he gave posh a good shoeing id respect him a bit more
  • Sad state of affair when harmless jokes are taken to this extreme. It's all about context but that seems to be a missed point in this day and age.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,917

    Gazza could at times be a genius on the pitch, but has always been a boy
    off the pitch. The Adult world have always been a step too far for Paul.
    The players union and Ex team mates have tried to help on so many occasions but YOU have to be able to help yourself.

    The Raoul Moat episode When Gascoigne, after having lines of Coke,
    turned up in his dressing grown, with a fishing rod and a food delivery for his "Mate"; showed that Gazza was a couple of chicken wings short of the Bargain bucket.

    The comments made by Paul may of come from our own Jim Davidson's act from 35 years ago, but that is where Gazza wants to be; a 14 year old boy with no Responsibility.
    Because the truth is, Gazza never stopped being a 14 year old Kid.



    You know he is bipolar right ?
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    shine166 said:

    Gazza could at times be a genius on the pitch, but has always been a boy
    off the pitch. The Adult world have always been a step too far for Paul.
    The players union and Ex team mates have tried to help on so many occasions but YOU have to be able to help yourself.

    The Raoul Moat episode When Gascoigne, after having lines of Coke,
    turned up in his dressing grown, with a fishing rod and a food delivery for his "Mate"; showed that Gazza was a couple of chicken wings short of the Bargain bucket.

    The comments made by Paul may of come from our own Jim Davidson's act from 35 years ago, but that is where Gazza wants to be; a 14 year old boy with no Responsibility.
    Because the truth is, Gazza never stopped being a 14 year old Kid.



    You know he is bipolar right ?
    Yeah he is,





    No I'm not




    Alright, you got me



    Bollocks is he


    :blush:

  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Diane Abbott gets away with Racist comments all the time

    Double standards