Gazza arrested again!

[On the Left Wing]

It's hard to feel sorry for an alcoholic, and Gazza is probably in a better position than most to get support (and pay for it). I guess nobody makes a conscious decision when they first start drinking that they're going to ruin their whole life, it just sort of descends that way until it becomes too hard to stop. That's how I was always taught to look at people, and I've probably dealt with more addicts than most.

How sad that none of his so called mates- who in reality appear to be little more than hangers on seeking the reflected glory of Gazza's fame- don't seem to have done a thing to get a grip on his very obvious problem. Because he doesn't show any signs of actively dealing with it himself. Itll be hard for them to live with if he ends up topping himself.

Disagree in some part Edna ... Alcoholism is a chronic illness. The addictive gene is sometimes inherited, but in any case is part of the individual's DNA make-up anyway.
No-one starts drinking with any sort of plan to ruin their lives, because most don't know at the start they are Alcoholic.
But then they are hooked...
To break the addiction is part of it, but sadly once you are an Alcoholic you are always an Alcoholic ... managing it is the the only answer.
I do agree that Gazza ought to have the funds and support network to manage his addiction ... sadly they and he seem to have failed.
But please don't judge him too harshly ... there are thousands of young people who go on weekend or Friday or Saturday night benders and cause harm and aggro to others, who are NOT Alcoholics but simply can't handle their drink.
I hope Gazza does manage to manage his alcoholism and not end his life like George Best or Jim Baxter.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

had to many chances in his life that some could only dream of , now literally taking the piss .

 

[CHAPPERS]

Lock him up ffs.

 

[Durlston]

had to many chances in his life that some could only dream of , now literally taking the piss .

Harsh. Wouldn't you get a bit hacked off with the media following you about for the last twenty years? Paul Gascoigne was the most gifted footballer at the 1990 World Cup and afterwards never got the protection that footballers get nowadays.

Seeing the pictures in the Sun today made me feel upset about his downfall. I can't see a happy ending but if he's checked into rehab again he WANTS to change. The poor bloke is so ill.

 

[severnside gull]

Haven't seen the papers but listening to the radio I get the impression he failed to turn up in court and when threatened with jail time as a result he then booked into rehab. Is that right? If so then at least some of his advisors have got his interests at heart.

He clearly has an addictive personality and the obverse of that is depression. Sadly you can never recover from addiction and you can only manage it if you have a reason to want to or to need to. I guess Gazza never found that reason.

Tragic waste of what should have been a wonderful life but football as an industry doesn't learn - keeps paying kids a fortune beyond their ability to manage and does nothing to impose any strictures on behaviour in return.

 

[NMH]

Harsh. Wouldn't you get a bit hacked off with the media following you about for the last twenty years? Paul Gascoigne was the most gifted footballer at the 1990 World Cup and afterwards never got the protection that footballers get nowadays.

Seeing the pictures in the Sun today made me feel upset about his downfall. I can't see a happy ending but if he's checked into rehab again he WANTS to change. The poor bloke is so ill.

Compassionate. But media does come with the territory, as well as fit birds and fast cars.
EVERYONE has to have control over themselves, whatever their status in life or their fame or finances. He is getting attention for being a complete nob though - whatever sadness anyone feels for his state and his fate, he's the one who's doing it to himself.

Let's feel 'sorry' for wounded soldiers and unfortunate handicapped children, personally I just cannot find enough sympathy for an out-of-his-skull boozing Geordie who has everything good at his fingertips but is pissing his life away.