Gazza Follows Vinnie Jones Onto Big Screen
If you don’t follow football (a.k.a. soccer) you won’t know who Gazza is. He was maybe the most talented footballer of the 1990s, outrageously taleneted but always injured. He’s famous for, among many other things, wowing the world at Italia ’90 before crying like a baby in the semi-final. And for that photo on the left where Vinnie Jones is grabbing him by the balls.
Jones was a journeyman footballer but has since had a decent, if very very one note “hardman”, career in Hollywood after starring in Guy Ritchie’s breakout Lock Stock…. Now Gazza is about to star alongside Lois “daughter of Ray” Winstone in a film called Final Run, about an alien invasion of earth. Gazza will apparently play a misguided survivor torn between his own future and humanity’s.
There’s one big problem though. A reason why Gazza almost definitely won’t be following Jones to Hollywood. Thanks to his thicker than tar Geordie accent, no one outside of Newcastle can understand a word the man says.
PLEASE explain that picture.
It’s a famous photo from a 1987 English First Division game. Gazza (right, full name Paul Gascoigne) was an up and coming young star for Newcastle, Vinnie Jones was a well known hardman for Wimbledon.
Jones gave the young player a squeeze to intimidate him, thinking no one saw it, but didn’t know a photographer captured the moment. The next week Gazza sent a rose to the Wimbledon dressing room, addressed to Jones.
haha, nice. Go figure, never knew the guy actually played soccer.