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More insights into Paul Gascoigne’s crazy head

“Tragic ace” has more vivid inner life than the rest of England’s footballers put together

As part of their Gazza coverage, the Times have run an extract from Hunter Davies’ outstanding book, Gazza My Story, written with Paul Gascoigne in 2004, which you can read by

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Ed Needham

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Not everyone entirely sympathetic to Paul Gascoigne’s plight

Writing in the Times, Simon Barnes describes Paul Gascoigne’s last few weeks as an increasingly unhinged guest at a Gateshead hotel, including the line “Gascoigne, 40, had apparently also spent hours in his room playing on a Nintendo Wii handheld computer game console.”

One reader’s reaction to this harrowing account? “The only one comment I [...]

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