Tag: gascoigne

The mercurial madness of Paul Gascoigne

Gascoigne was an enigma; a strange contradiction in the way that he could exhibit moments of footballing beauty despite being something of an utter lunatic

Paul Gascoigne and the death of the flawed hero

FOOTBALL IS CAPABLE OF BEING PURE THEATRE, producing storylines that would be tossed aside by even the most shameless Hollywood scribe as too implausible. Liverpool in Istanbul in 2005, Manchester United in…