Good afternoon. I’m Uncle Harry, your children’s party entertainer this afternoon and may start off by punching an orphan in face whilst working out how I can get out of here and straight into the nearest juicer, in an ideal world with some half desperate mother in tow for a bit of an ‘encore’ with a balloon animal.
On a serious note, as per my recent post on the plight of Paul Gascoigne, it is so good to see that Paul has been kidnapped by Guardian angels and taken off to the USA to embark upon some treatment that could save his life. I know it’s down to him, I’ve heard all that, but nevertheless, this is a real chance to give a man that gave ‘us’ all so much another chance.
Of course, it will be said that there are people all over the world in similar or worse conditions. And who is helping them? The answer is of course, ‘probably nobody’. I walked past a man this morning at about 0945hrs; he looked to be in his what early 60′s? He was putting an empty bottle of white wine in a dustbin outside Leeds Market. I had half seen him slurp the dregs and put the bottle against a wall seconds before, he decided to keep Britain tidy.
In the snapshot moment of passing him I’d say if you deloused him, gave him a haircut, a shave and some proper clothes he might have only lost at least a decade. So yes this Gazza business is artificial because he was a very likable, talented footballer. Nobody’s going to fly trampy Yorkshireman to the USA. He’s essentially a skidmark on the underpants of society. He survived this winter. That’s all I can conclusively share with you about him.
What people need to do is vote to look after the NHS. I mean properly look after it. Understand that whilst it will benefit from some business acumen, it ain’t a very good business. It loses money and that’s the deal. If you don’t embrace that deal and work with it, opposed to against it them you’re working against the very principles of humanity.
I got called a few names over my response to the Muamba business. His decision to thank his made up friend for saving his life didn’t bug me that much. It was more about witnessing in what felt like an unrelenting slo mo all the vicariously grief junkies hopping onto to the ‘I care’ bandwagon.
If you really, truly care, vote to ensure that the funding of the buildings full of scientists such as those who rescued poor Fabrice are not only supported, but enhanced so we can do our up most to …protect this species. You can shove your utterly worthless hashtag up your collective bottoms.
The plan of the Stand For Gazza campaign is that on the 8th minute, at the next Tottenham, Rangers, Newcastle Utd, Middlesbrough, Lazio and Everton games, for a there to be a round of applause. I’d rather not. Leave football out of it. Let me watch a game without somebody hijacking some element of it, just for once. Please. If you want to help and are like the bulk of us skint, then vote. If you’re rolling in it, make a fabulous donation to the appropriate people.
Get well Paul. But you, of all people won’t be offended if I stay seated while you crack on, son.
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I agree. Do it before the match or at half time.. If you really care more about gazza than your bagel then you’ll do it then and not disrupt the game.
I know I’ll cry when I find out he’s gone, I don’t mean Arizona boot camp (but then again I cried for Kirsty maccoll and steve jobs). Gazza was so good it has spoilt me because no Englishman has come close to what he could do on the pitch in my lifetime. The incredible stories that get recalled about him by mc’s and after dinner speakers tell you all you need to know about his generosity mixed with fun loving madness attitude to everything he did.
Love him!
Get well sir, get well.
PS the bullshit that its up to him to sort himsf out really fucks me off and shows a real lack of understanding. South gate and Dixon fuck you both.
Peace
u muppet. u obviously dont understand he is an addict. i hope when ur on the floor u get kicked to near death and no one shows u supprt. this about giving supprt to someone who gave so much to numerous charities, clubs and country. only for gazza’s sale to lazio, against his wishes, our club may not be around or where it is today. stand up for Gaziza.
I’d rather stand up for Gaza.
You sound like you’re arguing with him for agreeing with you!!
Ive never been one for rituals,preferring something to positively happen in real life but still we do need them.It makes us remember.There is still a little hope left.
Genuises are often afflicted with these types of illnesses,as there is a down side to everything as intense as they were at the positive.
So I think standing for Gazza is not the worst of things. It may take our mind off the kick into touch by a centre back or a misdirected pass by Walker.
Everything stopped for Muamba,who although had no part in his own illness,nevertheless wasnt a part of our Tottenham family either so a stand for one of our greats is in not in bad taste.
It may say to the players that we care about of former heroes so maybe you should care a little more about your supporters when they travel many miles to watch you fall asleep sometimes
Well said Ron.
Finally something I agree with you!
Oh p*ss off!
Ur so ker hunt. Why does ur shite keep smearing itself all over my newsnow? How many times I have to hide your ‘publication’? Off, will ya?
I can’t believe you don’t care about Gazza.
apart from the obvious problem you have with WRITING English, if you READ the instruction behind Newsnow, it does tell you how to hide sites. you don’t like; you simply follow those instructions. If you block more than twenty sites, you have to log in go block more. I advise doing it, then Harry doesn’t have to read your attempts at language …..
Bit pot and kettle don’t you think?
100% mate. Thanks
I don’t think this is just about moral vacuity amongst “Good Samaritan Wannabes”, although they are an irritating part of the shallowness that flows so copiously from our current levels of electronic free-expression. The sad thing about Gascoigne, if one puts aside all the fame, football and media angles, is that he probably can’t help himself. Yes, Tramp A doesn’t get the recognition, nor do 99.99 % of those who suffer in such ways. But without headline examples, the majority of humans would probably care even less than they actually do. Does anyone give a shit for Third/Developing World death number X? Few can compute any of this, given that there are 7 billion humans and counting (and at an alarming rate).
Aren’t all famous people totemic, regardless of their eventual historic value?
Mark said it right.
Personally I feel more of a connection to Gazza’s plight, than other people who that suffer, not because of celebrity or it being a trendy thing to care about.
I choose to care because I grew up watching him as a kid in the 80s, and what he did at his imperious best gave me pure joy and inspiration.
Every kid has a player that makes them first get what football can be. For me aged 9 or 10 Gazza was that player, and was probably a big part on why I support Spurs.
I’d simply never seen a player like him, and still haven’t. I was lucky enough to be there for that goal against Scotland, it remains the most brilliant piece of skill I’ve ever witnessed on a football pitch.
So seeing him now makes me truly sad.
He has done this to himself, he has had so much help, if he had stayed OFF the booze and let the injections and pills do their work, he would be fine. But he didn’t, he couldn’t leave the booze alone.
My liver problem is NOT drink related and it’s people like Gazza and Best that have damaged the support that liver transplants need.
to fix him they can slice off the damaged bit and slap on a clean bit. but, IF he drinks still, then it will be yet another waste.
The Health Service is get sieged by drink related liver damage and it’s causing problems that affect people like me.
So No, I dont back this Gazza support. He was given the benefit of our support at the start but he has gone way way beyond now.
Of course he’s done this to himself, but your moral absolutism sounds a lot like the Victorian opinion that poor people brought poverty upon themselves. Until you understand that the brain is just another organ prone to variable physical attributes, and that mental illness is little different that any other ailment, you’ll go on being the slightly subnormal individual one suspects you are.
Of course, having a low IQ and fuck all empathy (plus some obvious bitterness about the state of your liver) is not your fault, but I think you have inflicted this pig ignorance upon yourself and would benefit from some time talking to people whose brains clearly don’t work anything like as well as your piece of superior mental meat.
Cock.
I can take or leave drink but some can’t, its got nowt to do with will power my friend. So stick your mightier than thou liver up your chuck hole. That’s me displaying the same compassion you are showing to others.
Nice int it tit?
Wo Wo Wo, as much as I sympathise with addiction I also sympathise with what Dale is saying. When someone is not prepaired to help themselves, what do you do? I work in the NHS and I see this on a daily basis yet legislation and safeguarding has us seeing these people day in and day out. Wasting resources on people who have no will or want to help themselves is draining resources for people who actually WANT to help themselves. Take George Best as a prime example, he took a healthy liver that could have been used to save someone elses life, he took it, and then got back on the drink again…and subsequently died. What we dont hear about is the person who didn’t get that liver, what happened to them…did they die too?
I used to smoke when I was young, I was addicted. I wanted to give up and I did.
I have friends that say they want to give up, but they dont really so they dont make the effort…they still smoke.
Its a tough one with Gazza, we all love him, hes a legend. Yes he needs help, clearly, but he has to WANT to give up, for himself. Words are just not enough. I still sit in a room filled with smoke but I dont feel tempted because I dont want it anymore, surely it has to be the same for him. The only problem is, Depression, that has to be the killer. Imagine having everything like he did, then having it taken away…this is something I cannot do and therefore find it hard to understand. But for Gazza, its clearly destroying him.
As you said yesterday Harry, lets hope he surrounds himself with good friends. Hopefully they will do right by him.
Ultimately what he needs is a life back in football. Not managing, thats too stressful, but something to help him breath the game again and feel apart of it. If he could get straight, and get strong…who knows. Maybe we might see him on MOTD in the future….heres hoping!
Totally agree. Gazza is/was a footballing legend. There is no doubt about it. But to only support his plight and not involve yourself in supporting/protecting what little decency we have left as a species (NHS a prime example) is wrong. It’s the same as getting up in arms about “dole dossers” when vodaphone owe billions in tax. It misses the point by a landslide
So yes, I agree absolutely with the setiment in this piece. Good shout
Get well soon Gazza & C.O.Y.M.F.SPUUUURS!!
Agreed 100%, Harry. Get well soon Gazza (with the help of lots of people who should be celebrated); otherwise use your energy to save our NHS from privatising, money-grabbing Tory bastards.
Let’s not get away from the fact that our nation is where its at due to Labour’s inability to run ANYTHING competently & more to the point, the fact that the NHS has nothing to do with this article. Many thanks Tommy
100% agree with the author
Lets all be be frank here for a second,
alcoholics drink because they want to. Thats it.
theres no tortured “Genius” as one poster above mentions
just an overwhelning love of the wet stuff!
go to any A.A meeting and you will here it
its my guess that gazza will eventually succumb to this love of drink and go out the same way as old george best
but so will many, many others
and there will be no “8th minute” for them!
all that seperates him and them is gazza had the opportunity to live a life of luxury first.
sounds harsh, but it is what it is.
i dont pity gazza and i dont wish him any harm
he is simply a man who lives and makes his own choices
There is the argument that exceptionally creative people have exceptionally addictive personalities. Look at musicians. Hendrix, Cobain and Shannon Hoon for example, nobody was stopping those fucking train wrecks. If it burns twice as bright its not gonna last long. It’s the way it is. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care, but it does mean you shouldn’t exploit them in their lowest times and with gazza that’s been happening for years.that’s what needs to stop.
coys and coygfg
and what of the exceptionally gifted people who dint suffer from alcoholism or addictions?
or the people who seem to have no exceptional talent but suffer the same?
to link “talent” with self destruction is to needlessly marry the two
people burn it at both ends because they choose to
and in gazzas situation that clearly isnt enough, so he snapped that candle in the middle and burned it there two!
and whos expoiting gazza? he has had a life most people cant dream off,
and is still making money off it or having celeb mates ship him off to the states
it is what it is
please spare me the tortured genius, or burning star theory
its bollox
An alcoholic is someone who is physiologically dependent of alcohol. Unplanned and unsupported withdrawal from alcohol often causes fits and sometimes death.
I wanted to say ‘And don;t forget to smash up your nearest Starbucks’ but I don’t need the legal bills…
Mr Hotspur, your so provocative. I am confused. the headline suggests that you don’t care about Paul Gascoigne’s health problems but in between your ‘humorous banter’ you suggest otherwise. If you hooked other Spurs supporters with your hyperbole I am sure they, like me, took the bait, added to your hits, and saw all the adverts on this page.
I love Paul Gascoigne. Seeing him this ill is worse than anything George Best did. As a Tottenham and England player he entertained us all and as such deserves our respect. He is on my prayer list as was Fabrice Muamba who nearly lost his life at the Lane. I thought the pray for Muamba thing was first class and I think standing up for Gazza is a gesture most Spurs fans would make with no doubts.
The irony here is that the bloke has been badly advised, led astray and used for most of his adult life. Interesting in the context of your article as you also have ponced off his former, footballing genius to get yourself a few hits.
Theres only one Paul Gascoigne whereas you are a two bob shitehawk.
Consider yourself ticked off.
I am more offended that you pray to something instead of thanking and respecting the thousands of forward thinking human beings who have dedicated their lives to learning and treating people to make this world a better place. I am sure that gazza doesn’t give a shit who stands up or not. The poor bloke doesn’t even care about himself. That’s the problem.
I understand now why you are such a below par Spurs fan. No faith.
What has happened to the ‘funny guy’ who was joshing about punching orphans in the face, referring to a homeless drunk as a skidmark and showing a lack of compassion for a Spurs legend in his hour of need.
I don’t know what to do now. I’ve put you on my prayer list but my concern for you may cause offence.
I am not sure who the; ” forward thinking human beings who have dedicated their lives to learning and treating people to make this world a better place”, are but, if you are referring to healthcare professionals, I have the utmost respect for them.
You really should consider praying or, better still, talk to a priest.
Your quite a sensitive boy, I can see that, but why pretend to be full of bravado, uncle Harry, when really your just a child.
You had your ticking off, now I have pulled your pants down and smacked your botty.
Run along.
i am not hotspur.
but i am Hotspur.
Since you’re offering your advice on praying, mine is that you really should bother. It might give you some temporary peace of mind, and that’s cool, but it seems you believe it may also have some wider effect on the world around you. If you want to change the world around you you have to do stuff in it to make stuff happen. Not just talk to yourself at night, that wont work.
*shouldn’t
you offend me, calebray.
You should forgive him.
i do. Thanks for reminding me, LLL.
‘As a Tottenham and England player he entertained us all and as such deserves our respect.’ Yea the Fog on the Tyne is all mine. Respect? Not enough to stand up. Whats got into people? I saw him a pub called the Dun Cow Dunston once, surrounded by all his mates and familiy banging back the V&T’s at lunch time. A Saturday lunchtime before a sunday game at Ibrox. They lost. Yea he could kick a ball, the one against the scum sticks out, however standing up wont help his addiction.
Did you know that the ten year old Paul Gascoigne saw his friends brother get knocked down by a car and killed? He developed a twitch and other compulsions a short while after this. At around the same time Gascoigne’s father started to have regular seizures. His family lived in one room with a shared bathroom and kitchen. He attended therapy as a child because of these issues and he went on to become addicted to fruit machines as a young teenager.
I doubt many people reading this were aware of how troubled he was before he began playing football. It is obvious now that he was self medicating with alcohol throuhout his playing career. The people who should have looked after him didn’t.
Stand up for Paul Gascoigne.
It’s the least you can do for a Spurs Legend. He was so much more than that free kick. Tottenham’s problems in the nineties began the day he was sold. He carried Venable’s teams, along with Lineker.
Dear Kosher-
While I do not often agree wholeheartedly with HH on moral crusades, (I subscribed to #prayformuamba) – But I have to agree with HH on this one.
If you want to help alcoholics or addiction sufferers generally, maybe help out at a local clinic or homeless shelter- or rather than standing up, maybe donate the price of your ticket to a local addiction centre or perhaps to veterans suffering from real trauma-
Gazza is/was a wealthy footballer who had, and continues to have issues, BUT has had equally, more opportunity than most to solve them- but he still chooses to drink.
If he stops, shows that he can remain sober, then I’ll be at the front of queue to applaud.
Chap from room 5.
“Gazza is/was a wealthy footballer who had, and continues to have issues, BUT has had equally, more opportunity than most to solve them- but he still chooses to drink”
Paul Gascoigne is a Tottenham legend, he is part of our history, he is one of ours.
What I choose to do with my spare time is not the issue.
Paul Gascoigne’s financial status, now or in the past, is irrelevant to his problems as a human being.
Compassion and empathy are human emotions that you either feel for your fellow man or you don’t. You have made your position clear. In my humble opinion wealth has no relevance to weakness. We are all flawed, one way or another and I believe in the principle of helping people who need to be helped, regardless.
Wealth probably compounded Paul Gascoigne’s problems. He will always be part of this football clubs history and, in my opinion, it is a poor show if the people who sang his name when he was winning the club football matches can’t show the same support for him when he is in trouble.
It’s called loyalty, which went out of fashion, along with trade unions, flared trousers and packed terraces when Gazza was in his pomp.
I don’t care how many times he falls off the wagon he was always brilliant for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. He deserves our sympathy and respect because he is one of ours.
He has my sympathy and respect… never suggested otherwise!
“I believe in the principle of helping people who need to be helped, regardless”
Then help! don’t stand!
Standing and clapping is not the answer to any of the worlds or an individuals ills
How does standing not help if it raises profiles of charities and volunteer organisations when SKY televise the game?
How does not standing Help? I certainly dont understand either way.
Maybe HH has caused this debates just t raise awareness?
I ust understand how people are to be offended by an act of standing and claping on 8 minutes.
I equally dont understand how not doing so would offend.
Its all pointless and I have fallen for it too Doh
I think the point he makes – and btw I agree with him about once every 2 years – is that these kind of mawkish gestures can be seen to supplement real action and mainly serve to make people feel kind of good about themselves for being so thoughtful and caring. He is right, the NHS is under attack and needs looking after yet the majority of people seem to think you can help people with a hashtag or a prayer or a spot of collective standing. Personally if I was sick I’d want an ambulance not a crowd of people standing around me saying how much they like me.
So there’s not much wrong with the actual gesture, except that this kind of gesture seems to be a part of our culture while thinking about practical solutions and acting on them seems less so.
you are kind of right, its happening across the board with smug eco crap (See the billions wasted on Green policies with no real thought and integration) the same is happening across all sectors of life and money talks, MPS’s talk (and look after themselves taking cash from the system and looking after their future employment oportunitites with banks and the Building sector (The Blair is on loads of Bank boards now good for him hey)
standing or not standing will have no effect on this and neither will voting for Tory or labour.
The only solution is revolution (doesnt have to be violent but its more fun) but that wont happen either.
The N.H.S. is now a training centre for the private sector of the healthcare industry.
As a nationalised industry the N.H.S. cannot be dismantled in the same way as the Post Office, the Water Board, The Electric companies, the Gas Board and all other utilities that were sold off.
It has to be done over time. The preferred method in this instance has been to create a crisis by undermining the service provided.
All the best staff want to leave because of the bureaucracy and pressure and opt to join the private sector. This leaves the N.H.S. with a mixed bag of efficient, loyal staff who stick it out and some not so good who have no other choice.
They all become increasingly disillusioned over time and the service suffers. The public complain. The Government arrange an expensive enquiry. The Government appoint more bureucrats as a result of said enquiry. Some hospitals are closed and the private sector pick up the slack.
The cost is still picked up by the tax payer but, the private companies make a profit.
Personally I can’t believe that during what is now a triple dip recession no political party has emerged in the UK talking about the re-nationalisation of all public services.
Is it right for any private companies to be making a profit from water, railways, gas, electric, healthcare or anything else during a slump that is entering it’s 5th year?
Expect more toll roads, price rises and unemployment for the forseeable.
You are a tit Kosher Kid.
Gazza is sick, not dead. He has friends and family that care about him and the means to get top quality help in the USA. He played football, he did not bring peace to the middle east or cure cancer.
By all means care about his plight, but bullying 30,000 people into standing up through some mis-placed sense of loyalty is laughable
Good luck with that prayer list, how’s that working out for you? Maybe you should think about putting something slightly more important than ill footballers on it.
You are not very bright.
No one is bullying anyone. If you read it that way then your own comments are bullying to not stand.
Your assessment of Gazzas friends and family is basic in the extreme. All addicts drive good friends away and get led by bad friends its part of the problem.
see my coments above for my opinion but accusing someone who wants to give a shit of bulying 30000 people is a bit stupid.
I dont think your a bad person for not wanting to stand but why do you care if some do?
Don’t worry, you’re on it Bobbles.
If I stand twice as long as everyone else, does it mean I care twice as much ?
Only if you do it on 1 leg
Why has one of my posts been edited?
censorship on a two bob blog.
What was wrong with my post Mr Hotspur?
Why are you hiding?
one of my posts has been removed from this page.
Could whoever is in charge on here explain to me why?
i am waiting
Well sweetheart, you can wait all night. I just restored that comment so you can now bask in it’s glory.
But why was it removed in the first place?
I’m doing you a favour here!
If we have a spat and all the other bloggers tell their mates it will do wonders for your traffic.
How about cutting me a deal?
Honestly mate no ones interested. So you don’t like Hotspur and what he posts on his blog. Who cares? You sound like someone only too willing to be offended. A lot of people come on here shouting and screaming and showing off with clever and aggressive comments. It’s boring.
I love the new hair-doo Spurstacus!
I thought it was about time I revealed myself.
Have I entered a paralell universe here?
Tony Adams offered to help out Paul Gascoigne and so called Tottenham supporters are slagging him off saying they can’t be bothered to stand up for a Spurs legend?
Now I am trying to persuade a man who looks like Sideshow Bob to see the error of his ways.
Sad state of affairs.
ah heorr leave it ouuuttt!
Are you the ‘mans’ posher brother?
I’m the one who has issues…
Who is in charge around here btw? I want to speak to the guvnor, the boss, the queso Grande, the dude behind the dude.
I like chicken nuggets but have not eaten them for a while.
Gazza, best player I have ever seen in the Lilywhite……I’ll be standing make no mistake. As for the tramp, Sid Trotter’s not been about for a bit……
Where is Sid ? Maybe lost with Ade and his chums.
Last seen, Leeds Market this morning finishing off a bottle of Lambrini…..
…and a packet of value horse/ sausage rolls…
If you knew what ‘Trotter’ actually did for a living! … he’s an extraordinarily decent fella who’s Shiraz antics on here will always be most welcome.
One of the most thoroughly decent, top, top chaps. I can only assure you.
And I found out by accident!
He told me he was a quality control tester in a brothel. A job we can all aspire to.
It’s the length of the queue when applying for job that’s off putting
best player? What about John White? Blanchflower? Dave Mackay? And lots of others. You’re so out of it….
Ive seen them all and Gazza was up their with the best.
Can compare for quality (they were all great) but they all had different styles.
White,Blachflower and Mackay were all specialists that fit well together.Gazza was a special one (Im not saying better) they were all great. Why demote any of them?
That Hoddle bloke was a waste of time,and blimey how the likes of Lineker,Waddle are ever mentioned in the same breath is beyond me!
Another minutes silence ruined by a few morons who can’t keep their mouths shut.
Jeez. Venables is sounding like an old man.
Bale 1 Austria 0.
It wont happen anyway so dont worry
The shit fans that attend the lane nowdays will be downstairs rushing off to buy a cup of tea after 5 minutes so they beat the half time rush.
Mind you most of them would be saying Gazza who.
Regarding your sentiments Thats fine those that want to stand can do so those that dont dont,
you are right that any donation that someone can afford to medical research, support organisations etc etc etc to fight the problems for all is noble and great.
It is possible however that a meaningless attempt at fans to support a fallen idol may raise the profile of an issue many choose to ignore so while I agree with your assessment of why people are suggesting doing the stand up thing there may be a positive outcome .
it certainly happened with the fabrice thing. Non football fans were talking with football fans and finding out more about heart probs, One bird at my office chose a heart charity for her marathon run as result
untidy: maybe practical good might come. I think that’s ambitious.
It probably is but it wont do any harm either.
I am more concerned looking at some of the comments for and against. I can see how the spanish inquisition started with this insight into human nature
And nobody expects the spanish inquisition
I’ve no objection to people standing up for Gazza, but I genuinely don’t understand what doing so is supposed to achieve.
If you stand up, touch your nose and then walk in a straight line, it should mean you’re not pissed-just a thought!
I think the main effect from the collective, solemn standing is that it makes people feel like nice, caring, solemn people for a fleeting moment. It certainly doesn’t help Gazza nor anyone else that’s poorly or anyone trying to help someone that’s poorly.
Much to my personal shame, When Live Aid was all the rage (85), I was playing darts in a pub league match-all tense, the match was on my throw-I took aim, and was just about to launch when this stupid bitch rattle her bucket and screamed ‘give generously’ Putting it mildly, I was pretty peeved, so I told her to ‘Go away’, to which she said’ it’s people like you who just don’t care-So I asked her if she really truly did? Which of course she did. I asked her if she’d considered selling her house and giving the money to Sir Bob? Or Donating half her salary for the cause-silence!
Harry admit defeat,and get defeat to stand up,you may not clap but say cheers for all the mistakes you have made and all we have made as human beings at times.
Being a product of your (his) environment is not a crime in itself,buit he gave the best of what he had to us,much more so than many others have done.
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That was a sensible post and relative with the state of your mind when you wrote it,even if you were a little unconscious at the time
Is saying ‘cheers’ appropriate Ron?
watching the Englnd game and what Ive seen the defence looks solid,the shape and the cover generally (only watching 15 minutes or so)
God Save the Queen AND GAZZA
Is she a piss head as well? You see, you never can tell!
forget Holtby,love the way that Roy has worked this team.They are not standing stilland covering well.Really quality stuff he is getting them play
Your alright mate. How do you put up with some of these mugs?
High praise indeed. :P ondering:
These emos are pance.
Satin?
I eat kosher food and pray a lot
I eat a lot and prey it’s Kosher,does that count?
Genuine question Ron. Does it matter that Brazil are currently 18th in the world rankings?
Does it? Did I mention Brazil?
Tottenham played Leeds and Norwich did it matter who we played?
I thought England in the second half….didnt see the first lbut in the second ooked about as good as Ive seen them.
It was the organization and qualiy for England that I liked.England too many times over the years have little in the way of systems and more blood and guts or not and mostly not.Here they looked more solid.
Now its only my opinion.You understand that dont you?For fucks sake dont you?
Yeah, yeah, but does it matter or not?
From time immemorial Wealth, Fame, Ttalent and without a doubt Stupidity all seem to realms of the Young and the Departed…. a fewer of the lesser lights include the “King” the “pop King” one James Dean and even the Presidents own helmet licker Marilyn M.. there is no doubt that the list will be added to on a daily basis and it sad to think that it is endemic to those with heavy wallets.
…….all except Daniel Levy that is
Marilyn Manson has been giving Obama head?
I didn’t even know he was dead.
Well said, specially re the NHS. Tory Tossers.
I didnt know the NHS were torries the bastards
He get’s about does Fernando
No pafrty in interested in the NHS or anything except getting themselves re-elected. They couldn’t give a toss about the country. You had Labour deliberately spend as much as they could knowing they weren’t going to get voted in after forcing the worst Prime Minister in history upon us, without him being elected. Their sole objective was to make the countries finances as bad as they could so the Tories would be disliked and Labour would get voted back in after 1 term. That is a disgraceful way to behave. To compound that they even told people not to vote Labour but Liberal so don’t try kidding us they give a shit about this country.
Gordon Brown the worst prime minister in history?? He was rather hapless indeed but the one who immediately preceded him was worse and ao is the one who succeeded him. Get a grip!
Thats just opinion LLL
It could be argued that Brown spent so long as blairs number 2 that after a decade of watching his mistakes he should have known better.
He was a better PM than chancellor though. Who in their right mind would sell the family gold
Who in their right mind you say? i think you’ve just answered your own question Mate?
Ahh yes good point
Cahill was terrible against Sweden and now gives Brazil a goal. Why do we have to keep putting up with him? Walcott did nothing in the first half and made 3 runs in the second. Smallling can’t use his left foot and plays people into trouble because he can’t play on the left of a central pairing.
Milner continues to show he is to slow and Welbeck again can’t use his left foot so let’s the defence get back and cover as he has to cut back inside. Should have shot with his left but no cocks it up with his right, not good enough.
But they won-so they’re going to win the World cup now-that’s a fact,well, according to the Sun they will
Bale scores for Wales.
http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-Gareth-Bale-goal-1-0-Wales-V-Austria-2013/tabid/317/articleID/285917/Default.aspx
I have to agree with HH, but for totally different reasons. I get fed up at the number of times we see black armbands being worn at games now, and it’s got to the stage where they are being pulled out purely out of fear other than genuine sadness.
I am not decrying Gazza, but if had been playing for us two years ago, rather than 22 years ago, there would be plenty on here slating his lack of loyalty to us when he joined Nazio. I accept tghe world has changed a lot since then,
My comments are not against Paul, but the frequency with which the armbands are produced. Eventually we are going to have a situation like Judas dying, and you can imagine the uproar there will be, if we do or dont produce armbands/have joint events with Arse etc.
Anything we do in the way of gestures leaves us open to criticism and lazy journalists looking to sensationalise a non-story I don’t say that we should never make a gesture to show our feelings, it is the rarity of the gesture, rather than the frequency that gives it importance. In the US for example they give countries the title “Most favoured trading nation status”. There are currently well over 100 countries that are “most favoured”.
In case anyone should misunderstand, I am aware that he is not dead!
Dempsey scores for US.
US? I didn’t know we were playing tonight?
It stands for United States. The UK has a special relationship with them. You have a special relationship with the EU. Most here can’t wait to get out of said EU.
Are EU talking to me?
I don’t want to ruin anybodys impression of me, but I am actually Hackney born and bred. No: That’s definitely gone and ruined it. Sorry!
As for the EU, RofI has done extremely well out of it (kerching). The real problem with the EU, is that it is a club which has different rules for each individual member. How can any club flourish when a member is saying, “I want what the French have got, but the Poles can’t have it”.
I don’t want to get into a political debate, but as far as football is concerned, if the UK leaves the EU, most of our current squad will require work permits, Bosman will not apply, and it will be possible to to see the introduction of quotas for British born players.
This is not the right place to be talking about it, but it’s definitely a case of be careful what you wish for!
Yeah… we beat Poland 2-0
Be nice. I’m in mourning over that performance by the US men. Good to see Dempsey with a goal.
Nice one up tonight Raz,Argentina,England Wales and Germany.Paid over 42/1
Good man, my friend got one, Wales, Scotland & Ireland, i never fancied England though 19/10.
U.S.A lost 2-1 tonight.
Bale subbed after 60 minutes playing for Wales but not injured. Phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Gazza is alive hes not dead
No one has seen him since he was last seen outside in a hotel car park in america are sure.
The whole Gazza debate reminded me of that saying
‘Walk a mile in my shoes’
So i’m just off out for a quick stagger.
Before I criticize anyone, I always walk a mile in their shoes… That way I am a mile away and they are barefoot!
I said that to my daughter only the other day when she was berating Heather Mills!
You’re pulling my leg…..
Shoe..shoe. hop it Hart’s
I’d stand purely for the joy he gave me in the late 80s and early 90s.
As someone on here has posted he isnt just any player for us. Hes a legend.
I agree that the wearing of armbands is becoming a weekly show of emotion
Someones dog dies and the team feel it only fair to don them and make a donation to the local dog home for extra effort.
Not to stand is almost biting your nose off to spite your face no?
Of course anyone standing / not standing wont save gazza but isnt it just a show of gratitude for the good times?
If he cant behave himself and will drink no matter what, then screw him. Why ruin a game by standing up for someone who thinks drinking is more important than life.
well we might as well stand up because apparently we have not got any strikers (I read it on the internet so it must be true).
According to those who relised we have no strikers we are definitely not going to score so there wont be any other reason to get up during the rest of the game (Except the morons that feel the need to get up throughout the game to buy a bagel, crisps, bovril or tea take a piss and then leave early because their mum has the dinner on)
How is standing up for a minute and applauding a legend going to “ruin the game”?????
People will get in the way of his rush to buy a cup of tea on 8 minutes, very inconvenient and will ruin it for him
If he wasnt a footballer and ending up in the A and E on a friday night after getting drunk and breaking himself , a normal person would not think very highly of him. Because he was a footballer who scored a decent goal for us and one against the likes of scotland we are supposed to stand up for a drunk. sure.
The Councillor, himself from an Ethnic Minority insists he made a genuine mistake, referring to the photograph of a Woman dressed in a Burka with a Binbag either side of her. He mistakenly said,”Madam those are two lovely Children you have there.”
Suspension on full pay was a bit harsh, you’re as Draconian as the FA.
Breaking News….Keith Harris and Orville try to buy Portsmouth.
Strange thing is that Harris was brought in by the previous administrators to help in finding a buyer years ago. Now he heads the consortium bidding for a club £60m in debt. Meanwhile the ground is held ransom for unpaid bills of £12m, what a mess and just a few years ago HR won the FA Cup with them.
This place seems to be getting stranger by the day. You must be doing something right HH, though I’m mostly at pains to identify what on earth that might be.
Reading the title of the blog, in isolation, I actually thought we were contemplating naming a stand after Gazza…
The Paul Gascoigne MacDonalds North Stand (Upper) – it’s got quite a ring to it…
Paul Gascoigne Mars Bar Stand surely Alspur!