- May 12, 2010
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The rather excellent F365 run a regular article called "Portrait of an Icon", which looks back on the career of some the greatest footballers to play the game.
This week it's our very own Gazza:
http://www.football365.com/news/portrait-of-an-icon-paul-gascoigne
After Hoddle captured my imagination for football as a 7 year old, so Gazza made it my obsession for the rest of my life.
Worth a read.
This week it's our very own Gazza:
http://www.football365.com/news/portrait-of-an-icon-paul-gascoigne
... Gascoigne was undoubtedly the most talented English player of his generation, perhaps even of all time. His dribbling ability was the stuff of comic book heroes, his burst into space, drop of the shoulder and swagger distinctly un-English. Gascoigne also had a coolness in front of goal, a capacity to disguise where he was shooting or passing that made every one of his moments on the ball eminently watchable. You didn’t know what Gazza would do next, but you knew it would be good...
After Hoddle captured my imagination for football as a 7 year old, so Gazza made it my obsession for the rest of my life.
Worth a read.