God help him, but Gazza doesn't have the brains to be bigoted (if that's possible).
I assume Livehead was referring to Gazza's flute-playing in his first Old Firm game; apparently that stemmed from an Ally McCoist wind-up, where he told Gazza before the game that he should do, since the Rangers fans would appreciate it...
As for his being a "drug-taking, woman-beating alcoholic", I imagine the same standards could be applied e.g. to George Best, except that Gazza has never been imprisoned, nor did George have the excuse of mental illness.
And Gazza never willingly turned his back on the game, either, for that matter...
As a Spurs and NI fan, those two were both heroes of mine; at the same time, I don't approve of many of the things they did.
But I would never criticise them, on the basis that if I had their outrageous talent, plus all the money, birds and hangers-on etc that go with it, I can't guarantee I wouldn't have gone off the rails in similar fashion. Nor, I would suggest, can anyone else.
(Joey Barton, mind, now there's a different case...
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