Gazza in Italy by Daniel Storey

Author:Daniel Storey [Storey, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008300876
Google: O2BgDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0008300860
Published: 2018-06-21T05:00:00+00:00

SOTTO I RIFLETTORI

The media glare, the belch heard round the world

Gascoigne rarely dealt well with authority. A psychologist might suggest that this was the natural result of a combustible relationship with his mother, with whom Gascoigne remembers having blazing rows that often included physical violence. He also witnessed domestic violence between his siblings, and regularly received the slipper treatment when misbehaving.

Playing football was Gascoigne’s release from the difficulties of his childhood, but the reality of professional sport is a world away from the idyll of kicking a ball around for pleasure. There are coaches telling you how to train, managers telling you how to play and directors telling you how to behave. Gascoigne often felt that certain characters in each of those roles stymied his natural joy for the game. Italian football had far more structure than the English game he had left behind.

Gascoigne was at his best when given compassion and love by his managers. If the argument is that special treatment should not be afforded to a professional footballer, such rigidity is unhelpful in practice. Teachers are supposed to treat all children equally, but the best soon learn that some require hand-holding while others are best left to their own devices. The same is true of football managers.

There is no doubt which manager got the best out of Gascoigne, and it was no coincidence that he was the manager who also had the closest personal connection with him and thus gained his trust. In Glorious, Gascoigne recalls how he made a dreadful mistake that led to the concession of a goal in England’s last warm-up game before Italia 90:

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