strawberryhead

Former England player admitted to hospital after being found drunk outside his home holding a bottle of vodka and he's facing homelessness after another drinking binge

Maz

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He looks in a shocking state.

JTaylor

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...ro-or-meh.html

From the last time he hit the headlines - poor bloke.

the shreksta

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poor bloke.................he could of had it all mate at one point but he decided to throw it all away and beat his mrs and turn to drugs/drink

**** him

Kwik

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A mate of mine passed away last week due to spending a long time as an alcoholic. I lived next door to him 15 years ago where he was advised another drink could kill him but he carried on.

strawberryhead

One of my ex friends is a alcoholic I've tried to help him many times gave up in the end
with paul the PFA have funded nearly half a dozen treatments and detox they have been paying his rent for several years also he's had the best psychotherapists and psychiatrists he went to the same clinic as joey barton and countless others the sporting chance which was set up by ex arsenal player Tony adams.

He has been diagnosed with everything down the years from bipolar to PTSD order At one stage he was believed to have been on 13 different drugs many of which would have left him comatose

All the info above was found on joey barton site

dpb

Was there a reporter inside the ambulance then

Turbohot

How sad. Not just for this man but for all the people that are lost to alcohol like this. They themselves may not feel sad for their own state, though. As long as they have their bottle with them, that's all that matters.

tony de wonderful

Sad but predictable.

Where is Chris Evans and the rest of his celeb 'mates'?

dpb

The two Dans are no doubt writing his obituary as we speak

dpb

He's taken on a bit of the Ronnie Biggs look, hasn't he

David Lock

He was in the news recently as he was going to start playing for some dinky club (Bournemouth way??) very soon.

I thing Geo Best was a better class drunk anyway

dl

jayallen

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I bumped into Gazza a few weeks ago, he was coming out of a Premier store in Canford Cliffs, it took two takes before i realised it was him.......I know it's self inflicted but its still sad to see him this way, he really did look a frail old man..

andy97

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Sad situation, we have an alcoholic in the family. With recent press news surfacing about him signing for Sunday league etc. I assume that small amount of pressure, press intrusion has pushed him back into a binge session

Donnie Brasco 46

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Funny why she kept his name then?! Normally when you divorce you revert back to your maiden name...

Personally I feel sorry for him. Watched England's greatest football players a while ago and gazza was number one. Lineker said that he's lost his way but there's lots of love for him and he always had a heart of gold. Some of the stories were classic, one involved him and les Ferdinand holding a sauna door closed having chucked a bucket full of urine of the coals with Ian wright etc stuck inside.... Lol

tony de wonderful

I gotta say the guy looks terrible, like a end stage alcoholic.

SJ_Skyline

Leave him alone and let him do as he chooses! #freegazza

jods

Dead already.

Turbohot

What are they going to do?? Addict's addiction has a capacity to p4ss everyone around off. Friends and family get fed up of trying to pull someone out of something like that. PG's case is a severe one. For a man in his 40's he looks dreadful.

Turbohot

The way he's slowly dying must be so traumatic for his loved ones; more than knowing one day that he's really dead for good.

I don't mean to say that he should die to end everyone's misery and his own, but I do sympathise with his close ones.

Chip

Very sad.

ditchmyster

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I think Chris Evens tried to help him and was funding some of his treatment, he's actually a very decent bloke, look what he did when he sold virgin radio, most people would have taken all the money and run, even the tea ladies and cleaners got circa £20k.

dnc

Agree 100% re Chris Evans.

Gascoigne is a lost cause but his friends have tried enormously to help him over the years. Problem is, he continually throws it back in their faces. How long would you put up with that for? He's pathetic and these days I have no sympathy whatsoever for him.

strawberryhead

Harry redknapp could save him as he's sent him a lifeline working as a coach at QPR Glenn Hoddle working with him could help too but maybe it's too late as the pictures show he's in a mess.

ditchmyster

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Alcohol is probably the worst addiction to have and so readily available, no skulking in dodgy back ally ways looking for a dealer it's on the shelves in the supermarket when your doing your food shopping, I wonder how many heroin and coke addicts could kick the habit if it were the same with those drugs.

Turbohot

Exactly. Terribly exhausting, debilitating, devaluating and devastating for the carers. The alcoholic the only one to fight with his demons, and if he can't do it for himself, no one can do it for him.

PG is a celebrity, but there're so many cases like PG all over that are pain in the @rse to their loved ones. Their salvation is their bottle and that bottle alone. 12 steps to off-licence is a life saving compulsion for them, and 12 steps of AA is just something to attempt with the deep set dependency on alcohol. Unconditional and everlasting love for alcohol.


Very true.

We would only know if heroin and coke got sold like alcohol does.

strawberryhead

in some city it is

Turbohot

Legally? In the form or recreational drugs? Like alcohol?

strawberryhead

A Drug called kratom produces same high as cocaine can be as addictive as heroin and its completely legal found in kava bars and head shops in south florida and throughout the country it comes from a tree in southeast asia ,

Kratom sought after for its euphoric and intense effects is considered by some as one of the most dangerous drugs currently for sale in the USA

Turbohot

So, Kratom is as addictive, but it's not cocaine. Not saying that it's not as bad. It could be worse, I know. But I actually had the UK on my mind and the UK-based addicts. None of the recreational drugs are sold in the UK legally in their naked forms; except for alcohol. May be they are, but I have no awareness of it.