Gazza abuse continues as press slaughter Rangers legend

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Gazza abuse continues as press slaughter Rangers legend
Former England players Jermain Defoe (L), Paul Gascoigne (C) and David Seaman (R) share a joke as they parade on the pitch at half time as England celebrate playing their 1,000th International match, during the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying first round Group A football match between England and Montenegro at Wembley Stadium in London on November 14, 2019. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP) / NOT FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING USE / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

We never did get round to covering this one, but the Scottish press, who already couldn’t go any lower, managed to make the belly of a snake look lofty when they attacked Paul Gascoigne, already a vulnerable man, purely because they didn’t understand what they were looking at.

Gazza, who gave up his time to represent his favourite club last weekend at the Legends showpiece, was having a bit of fun with his agent’s son on the sidelines, and footage emerged of him playtripping the kid up.

The Scottish media, brazen and foul as they are, plumbed the depths of immorality to spin this as an attack by a mentally disturbed man on a child, a full-on assault. It was slammed, condemned and widely abused as a shocking incident and the sign of Gazza’s mental state.

When, however, his agent released a statement confirming the two of them do this silly stuff all the time, and they have a great relationship, not an ounce of apology from anyone accusing Gazza of abuse emerged, just tumbleweed.

Later on there was footage of the kid being asked if he was enjoying himself, and the biggest grin on his face said it all, as he confirmed he was having the time of his life.

Gazza has never been an angel, and he knows it. He made mistakes in the past and he paid for them with his reputation wrecked by the papers and his career dragged through the gutter. The press can hurt a celebrity far more than any prison sentence. Look at Johnny Depp.

But on this occasion he is the victim of abusive celebrity culture, where the Scottish media saw Gazza ‘attacking’ a kid, made no effort to research the meaning behind it and just brought out the ‘wife beating’ mentality which made this incident an episode of abuse.

That it turns it he and his agent’s kid were just having a laugh is simply forgotten and ignored by the media machine determined to prove Gazza a monster.

We had to laugh when one Celtic-minded paper (which lord knows how got into our Rangers news feed) had an article headlined about how it’s a disgrace that Scotland ‘glorifies monsters’ like Gazza.

All because of a flute and a case of him having fun with a kid.

There are no depths our press will not sink to.

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  1. I mind down the park playing football before i joined my first boys club and the older guys would do this to us all the time. People are just soft now and love to virtue signal. Its pathetic the way society has went.

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