Gascoigne Page #6

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He had great confidence.

You could see he played

for the love of the game.

Completely for the love of the game.

He didn't, obviously,

give it too much thought.

And he had this amazing strength,

upper body,

where he'd push people off.

Beautiful combination

from Gascoigne, and he's won out!

He excited you

on the pitch.

It mightn't have been the best of games

but he lifted everyone when he got the ball

and you could feel an anticipation.

Gascoigne taking

the ball on, and scoring superbly!

And did he enjoy that.

And you get fan mail.

The fan mail starts coming

thick and fast, you know.

I remember opening my first fan mail

and it was from Sir Alex Ferguson.

I said, "Ooh, sh*t."

He went, "I can't believe

what you've done, you stupid bastard."

Again, just, "You've turned

down the biggest club in the world."

He says, "You know, I turned down all

these Barcelonas, Madrids and AC Milan

"come to Man United,

You told me to go on my holiday

"and you sign for f***ing Spurs.

It took him six years to get

speaking to us again.

I loved it at Spurs, you know.

The times I had there were fantastic.

The fun and the laughs we had, you know,

the team spirit was absolutely brilliant.

I mean, Terry Venables was

the only manager I could think of in this world

that could deal with us.

I remember halfway through the season,

the lads went, "I thought you do

crazy things, Gazza."

I went, "I am I do.

We'll do something tomorrow."

So I'm driving home and I pass a zoo.

And I just looked and I went,

That'd be interesting."

The guy's house was actually in the zoo.

I went to his house at 7:30 in the morning,

knocking on his door.

He went, "What do you want, Gazza?"

I went, "Can I borrow an ostrich?"

He f***ing...

What do you want an ostrich for?"

I said, "I just need

to f***ing borrow one."

Stick it in the back of the car.

Ostrich giving that with its long neck, man.

And I waited till the lads went out warming up

and I got the ostrich. I went, "Yeah, lads, look

at this new player Terry Venables signed,

"the gaffer's signed,"

and I threw it on the pitch.

And it was so funny because the lads

were doing side-to-side running

and this ostrich was doing the same behind.

I thought it was quite funny.

All the lads did

but the lads finish training at 1:00.

Have you ever tried

catching a f***ing ostrich?

Honestly.

I caught this ostrich...

I got the ostrich back at around

5:
00 in the afternoon.

I was knackered.

Well, the

training ground experience,

like anything else with Gazza, is always,

is always great fun.

A practical joker,

beyond the likes of which

I don't think I've ever seen,

before or after.

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