Gazza Twenty Four Years Ago Today.

Twenty four years ago today.

1988 Newcastle midfielder Paul Gascoigne left SJP in a £2m move to Spurs.

It was later confirmed that Gazza had gone back on a verbal agreement to join Manchester United in order to follow Chris Waddle to White Hart Lane.

Alex Ferguson later recounted that:

"We spoke to him the night before I went on holiday. He says 'Go and enjoy yourself Mr Ferguson, I'll be signing for Manchester United'.

"So I went on my holidays but Martin Edwards rang and said 'I've got some bad news - he signed for Tottenham. They bought a house for his mother and father in the north east and that swung it'.

"I think it was a bad mistake, and Paul admits it...we had a structure of players who could have helped him and it could have given him some discipline."
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Poor old Gazza, a brilliant player with loads of skill that just fell in with the wrong people.

 

Wish he had been 7 or 8 years younger, as I would have got to see him play regularly and he might have been the jigsaw that won the league.

 

The loose cannon that won the league maybe.

 

Yep .

 

What talent

 

He made crowds gasp,simple as....if you ever get to see one season, choose the one he had for Spurs just before he did his knee in...absolutely magnificent!