Sit him down with Greavsie,he had the same problem,and overcome it,prehaps Gazza would take more notice,of another Spurs legend who's been through much the same torment
In Redknapp's second farce of the day, he's revealed that he's offering a coaching role to Gazza - the day after his relapse
He looks really terrible. So sad to see him like this again, we keep saying maybe he'll turn it around but his body won't keep giving him chances.
To be fair to 'Arry, he's probably just trying to help him. Trying to give him something to focus on apart from getting pissed.
He needs medical help, not sympathy, in my opinion. It's also unfair on all the thousands of coaches out there who would dream of a job like that, instead HR would give it to an old boy with no coaching experience, who is clearly not the best role model for players.
Unfortunately, he's had medical help many times. But every time he sinks back into the mire. I'm well aware that he's probably of next to no use as a coach in his current state - as I'm sure is 'Arry. As I say, I think he's just trying to help the guy, give him some focus, some sense of purpose.
What i would like to know is, why aren't his mates trying to help him,surely that 5 bellies guy is big enough to stop him trying to get into a pub
I saw Gazza in Bournemouth only a few weeks ago and he looked astonishingly fit and well, so I was a bit stunned to see these photos of him today. I fear he is not going to be with us for much longer. Very sad.
It is sad but to be honest the big problem with Gazza is Gazza. I don't mean it harshly but only he can decide to accept the help he desperately needs. I honestly don't mean to sound a **** cos getting over an addiction and being in a very ugly place is a very difficult thing to do but giving him a coaching job is not the answer. There are plenty of other men like him in the world who are abused as being piss heads etc and no one feels sorry for them cos they weren't footballers. I don't want anything bad to happen to him and like all the other people addicted to drink or drugs he needs help...I hope he and others get it but the truth is many simply do not seem able to accept the help ... it's like a long drawn out suicide and in gazza's case it's being done in public
I know from personal experience that Harry has a soft and decent side to him. Good to hear that he is extending this to Gazza and not for the first time. Not so long ago, he arranged with his mate Eddie Mitchell, then the chairman of Bournemouth, for Gazza to work with the kids there. It never happend because Gazza never took the arrangement on, but it is unfair to have give Harry the forehead slap over this. Also, this summer, through personal efforts, Harry has raised several thousand pounds for a Bournemouth based charity linked with Gazza's issues. .
I think that Redknapp's offer is just an attempt to do what he can to help out someone that appears to be beyond help, unfortunately. Trying to get Gascoigne back into the game that he clearly loves to try to give him some motivation and a reason to stay sober. Even if the kids couldn't learn the magic that he had as a player, I'm sure that they'd learn something about the less glamorous side of football and something that often goes unmentioned. Can't see it working, I'm afraid, but it's nice to see the offer being made. Lots of ex-pros that don't stay in the game in some capacity end up drifting into bad habits and losing direction completely. It can be very hard on some of them to go from famous heroes with a daily routine to nobodies with nothing to do and no idea what the future holds. They're so used to having everything planned out for them and being told what to do that it can stump some people completely. The game could probably do a little more to look after the interests of those who either don't quite make it or leave and don't know what to do with themselves. Less of an issue now for a lot of the top players, as there's so much money around, so some of them never have to lift a finger again once they've retired, but those lower on the ladder are still affected. That's true of most walks of life, of course, but in an era where some benefit so enormously from it, it'd be nice to see a little being set aside to help the less fortunate.
