Gazza in Italy Audiobook (Free)

A brilliant, funny and insightful analysis of Paul Gascoigne’s crazy up and downs during his 3 years at Lazio – an interval which ultimately shows his entire profession in microcosm.

4th July, 1990.

Turin, Italy

England are on the brink of achieving their first World Cup last in 24 years. Twenty-three-year old Paul Gascoigne has been among the breakout superstars of the competition. His athleticism, speed of believed about Gazza in Italy and incredible natural gifts have given England followers renewed faith in their perennially underachieving nationwide side.

Then in the 99th minute of the anxious semi-final against Germany, Gascoigne lunges right into a mistimed deal with. The ref awards him his second yellowish card of the tournament, and therefore if England had been to win, he’d miss the last. Gascoigne turns away, tries to carry it collectively, but can’t. Floods of tears run down his encounter. We understand. We experience his pain and anguish. The legend of Gazza is born.

Two years later on, after an injury-stricken season at Spurs, he finds Lazio for a then record transfer fee. Objectives are sky high; he’s welcomed like a footballing Messiah from the Roman enthusiasts. But all isn’t what it appears. There are doubts over his fitness, doubts over how he’ll adjust to life in Italy, uncertainties over whether his obvious potential can finally be performed. The three following years in Italy, shot through with incredible highs and self-inflicted lows, show Gascoigne in every his intricacy – an huge natural skill flawed by a too-fragile personality.

In Gazza in Italy, award-winning writer Daniel Storey brilliantly shines a light with an unexamined moment in Gascoigne’s career that encapsulates everything that we attended to associate with this most mercurial of skills: childish joy, general public gaffes, wondrous skill and saddening self-destruction. Funny and harrowing in equivalent measure, this book allows us a better, more rounded understanding of among our greatest having idols, and of a tragically misunderstood human being.