Gazza Documentary tonight

[splott parker]

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Which i don't understand :thumbup:

Come on now, ‘Dad’s Army’... “You stupid boy”:hehe: Would Fergie have dismissed him with the same disdain as Capt Mainwaring?

[Tuerto]

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Come on now, ‘Dad’s Army’... “You stupid boy”:hehe: Would Fergie have dismissed him with the same disdain as Capt Mainwaring?

**** me splotty, you're on thin ice with that one :hehe: Got you :thumbup:

[splott parker]

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**** me splotty, you're on thin ice with that one :hehe: Got you :thumbup:

Had it had happened it would have made great reading years down the line... ‘How I tamed Gazza’ by Ferguson or ‘How I sent Fergie doolally’ by Gazza:hehe:

[Mario Miethig]

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People say if Gazza joined Man U, Ferguson would have sorted him out and put Gazza on the right path. I disagree! Ferguson had great talents at Utd, before that in the likes of McGrath and Whiteside. He soon got rid of them. Gazza was probably far harder to deal with than those two.

[dml1954]

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Must admit I didn’t quite get what all the fuss was about him. A particular memory of him was that he should have been shown a red card while being carried off on a stretcher in the FA Cup Final against Forest. It was a shocking tackle that by him that led to his career defining injury.

Did you see his 30 yard free kick in the semi-final or the ‘dentists chair’ goal in the Euro's against Scotland ? Genius.

[NYCBlue]

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His mental health issues and the way he was exploited are tragic. He was a gifted English footballer at a time when everyone thought Bryan Robson was good. He won next to nothing though. Glenn Hoddle was a far better player.

[Wash DC Blue]

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His mental health issues and the way he was exploited are tragic. He was a gifted English footballer at a time when everyone thought Bryan Robson was good. He won next to nothing though. Glenn Hoddle was a far better player.

I think that Bryan Robson was a tremendous player.
Hoddle was a wonderful player.
To me, Matt Le Tissier was the greatest English player of his generation.
An absolute pleasure to watch.

[splott parker]

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Did you see his 30 yard free kick in the semi-final or the ‘dentists chair’ goal in the Euro's against Scotland ? Genius.

I did, great moments in his career but plenty of players have flashes of brilliance.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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His goal for spurs against Portsmouth at Fratton Park was incredible and summed up his talent

Broke up play on his 18 yard box , spread ball out to winger

He makes a gut busting run right through the pitch to meet a cross into pompey box , thumping flying header

Absolute genius

A lot of flair players can do the fancy free kicks......and he could too ......but gazza had it all

Would Glen hoddle do that ?

He would be too busy combing his hair

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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His mental health issues and the way he was exploited are tragic. He was a gifted English footballer at a time when everyone thought Bryan Robson was good. He won next to nothing though. Glenn Hoddle was a far better player.

No chance , hoddle wasn't a box to box all rounder

When things got tough he would vanish

[Hilts]

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In my opinion he was overrated. Not a patch on Best, Charlton, Duncan Edwards, Charles. Shearer, Beckham, Giggs, Bale, Southall, Dalglish.

He came across as Childish but the documentary shed interesting light on what can happen when pop star footballers go wrong; echoes of Best. Fergie did well to manage Giggs in the spotlight but in later years even that went wrong.

The BBC documentary also described Gaza in terms of “this country.” Even Wogan, an Irishman, referred to “this country.” Gazza wasn’t huge in this country…by which I mean Wales.

Italia 90 Gazza was most definitely the most talked about sportsman in Wales. He had a brilliant tournament.

At his best a fantastic player.

[the other bob wilson]

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Just finished watching it, sad to see the decline and torment of someone who had one, enormous, talent and yet was not equipped to deal with media attention in the twentieth/twenty first century (not sure many of us could mind). Just as sad is the fact that bastards such as Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan are still peddling their poison after what should have been the turning point of the 2012 Leveson report.

[RichardM]

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People say if Gazza joined Man U, Ferguson would have sorted him out and put Gazza on the right path. I disagree! Ferguson had great talents at Utd, before that in the likes of McGrath and Whiteside. He soon got rid of them. Gazza was probably far harder to deal with than those two.

And Ravel Morrison

[Hilts]

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Bryan Robson and Glenn Hoddle were both superb players. Completely different.

[Jordi Culé]

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Just finished watching it, sad to see the decline and torment of someone who had one, enormous, talent and yet was not equipped to deal with media attention in the twentieth/twenty first century (not sure many of us could mind). Just as sad is the fact that bastards such as Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan are still peddling their poison after what should have been the turning point of the 2012 Leveson report.

Same here.

Gascoigne used as 'a story', exploited and basically set up by the likes of Morgan and Rebecca Wade to sell papers.

Has that gobshiite Morgan commented on his social media account about the documetary. Mr rent a gob got an opinion on everything else or has he swerved it like he did the questions from the Leveson inquiry?

Nothing's changed either, which is bigger indictment on the media and probably says something about this country.