It is no secret that most footballers do not write their newspaper columns all by themselves.
There are, of course, exceptions, and they are easily discernible.
However, most of the copy that makes it to the subs was either transcribed verbatim or imaginatively created by someone working on the sports desk.
Some people have the ability to speak down the phone in carefully constructed sentences.
When that is the case, the sports journo is effectively a copy taker.
More often than not, the monosyllabic ex-footie player gets the gist of it down the line, and the overstretched hack has to put it into some kind of readable form.
However, that is NOT what has happened with Herr Albertz.
Read this in the Daily Radar and then look at how the ex-Rangers player reacted on his own Instagram account.
Ouch!
Before the digital disruption, this immediate riposte was not readily available to a player who was…err…misquoted in this way.
The legneds match itself was a festival of tranclubstantiation.
If we follow follow the money, it was a way to get the turnstiles clicking during the international break.
Sadly, it was also a public outing for the tragic Paul Gascoigne.
I cannot find it in my heart to have anything other than concern for this man.
My mind keeps coming back to the likes of George Best and Alex Higgins.
Sadly, it is a typical tale of the sporting genius who could not cope with being an ordinary mortal when the curtain finally came down.
When the real action re-starts at Ibrox next weekend, only a victory over the league leaders will put some soothing balm on the open wounds from his fratricidal conflict.
Even so, it will only provide a temporary easing of the pressure on the Sevco High Command.
Regardless of the result, next Sunday, Mr King wants money for his dwindling shareholding.
Lose sight of that, and none of this is explicable.
Meanwhile, someone Down Under seems to be very confident that Sevco will still turn up and be the supporting act for the Ange homecoming tour.
As I have previously reported here, failure to do so would land the ten-year-old club in court.
Well, they know what that feels like!
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The thing with Gascoigne and his injury, he done it to himself, he went for a 2 footed knee high challenge against the Forrest player, then while he was crocked got into a rammy in a nightclub, ruined his own career before it got into gear
Gascogne and his family had a fight over the one brain cell and it has become more obvious, that he did not win the fight. An embarrassment as a human being, with the media and others playing up to his juvenile and boorish behaviour.
Honestly can’t define the shallow/bigoted Gascoigne as a ‘genius’ during his playing career. Maybe decent. Never won anything worth mentioning. Trophies attained by Sevoc during the EBT period were ultimately worthless. Players like Ronaldo, Messi, Xavi and Dalglish were in the genius category. They all won major silverware.
Nice to be compared with Messi etc! PFA Young Player of the Year, record British fee, starring in a World Cup and gettting a transfer to the Italian league when it was the best in the world. He was a star before he injured his leg aged 23 and he lit up games as few players can.
Gascoigne was decent but faded rapidly. He was badly let down by his clubs and his advisors. Rangers didn’t care about his welfare. As long as he could appeal to the numpties that’s all they wanted from him. The entire team was a fake, built on other people’s money. There is no glory there. Great teams and great players have respect in all football clubs. Neither Gascoigne or Rangers ever achieved that.
AGS is accurate when he says that “he (Gascoigne) injured his leg aged 23”. Go to YouTube and watch his highlights from the 1991 cup final. The studs in the chest “tackle” should have resulted in a red card and saved him from his self-inflicted injury.
The video clip of Gascoigne and the ball boy is sickening. Any “misunderstanding” is entirely on the part of Gascoigne. He misunderstood that there’s nothing funny about hurting a child for your own amusement. He misunderstood that no one else would share his amusement………. well no one normal. Sevconians probably think it’s acceptable behaviour. And Gascoigne clearly misunderstood, that many father’s would have taken a view, that such an act being committed on their son by another adult, deserved taking their displeasure out on his nose.
I simply don’t buy this flawed genius SHITE. Aye, he had unbelievable talent as a footballer, but he was always a complete arsehole of a human being.
Gazza is a figure of tragedy. He is also a loathsome bigot who acted violently towards his wife. The two are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to acknowledge both. That one may stem from the other makes it easier to understand, though not to accept.
He was headed for greatness, to be the best English footballer of all time. Then a combination of injury and massive immaturity (from which he still suffers) fired him onto a different path. He could been a contender, as they say. Who knows how our lives would have went in similar circumstances.
I have disdain for the man he became, but when I see the younger man of the early 90s I feel a protective sorrow and pity for the life ahead of him.