keithmoon66
Winger
Would we saying the same if Gazza had been a mackem and played for Sunderland all of his career? I doubt it.
Gazza's personal life has nothing to do with his ability as a footballer, and really, I think they should be separated, and we have no right to talk about what is obviously a serious psychiatric disorder. He has obviously resorted to extremes in his attempts to cope with his disorder.
He is not the only one to press the self destruct button due to chemicals.
I don't see any remarks about a Sunderland player, a similar personality, not as extreme, but still as self-destructive - and dead because of his dependencies.
I had the pleasure of watching him in my youth:- In 98 games over two and a half years at Sunderland he became known for drinking himself unconscious the night before a match.
He drank to excess, and at one point was said to be consuming three bottles of Bacardi a day
After retiring from football he became manager of a pub, and his continued heavy drinking damaged his liver so badly that he needed two transplants at the age of 55, after which he swore off alcohol. He was also addicted to gambling, and is estimated to have lost between £250,000 and £500,000 a fortune in the 1960's. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2001.
ANOTHER TOTAL WASTE OF LIFE. R.I.P Jim Baxter.
How many women did Jim Baxter beat up? You've no leg to stand on so fuck off.
Psychiatric disorder? Honest to fuck Alcoholism isn't a psychiatric disorder. Its an insult to put the two names in the same sentence.