TOPIC: How long for Gazza?

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His body is bound to pack in shortly. This is him gan to shop for gin, fags and pain killers.

Everbody has tried to help him but I don't think there's any way back now.

The best English player in modern times by far

Sad to see...just going the same route as George Best. One massive binge too far will no doubt bring him to a halt. Its only recently we saw him doing a show or 2 for audiences...thinking maybe he is on a path to recovery but these pics that have circulated,well looks like he is in a serious downhill spiral again.

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Just looks like a standard Sunday morning to me.

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Christ what a mess

It's very easy to say this kind of thing and I'm sure I'm being quite ignorant - but how can his family and friends not try and steer him away from this? Surely someone can do something to stop him deteriorating like that, over and over again.

2016 has been the year of the celebrity death so far. I hope so much that Gazza doesn't join the list.

He has now gone way way past the stage where family and friends can help him.

Sadly, he either finds help fast - with the 100% desire to stop drinking - or he dies, as thousands of people do year on year.

The end does seem not too far away now.

Hopefully these shocking pictures may help others with similar serious issues.

I think his family and friends have tried everything including sending to him US for rehab but nothing works.

Having known one or two real alkies similar to him it's very hard for those close to them

It becomes an impossible task.that you may have to give up on in the end for your own sanity.

sirjimmyglass wrote:
I have first hand experience of this and, believe me, if someone is determined to drink there is NOTHING you can do. Years of visiting hospitals, sitting with them, begging them to go to rehab, detoxing, psychiatric care but then they just check themselves out (which you cant stop them doing unless they are sectioned) and go on drinking to destruction.

Alcoholics are often aggressive too and will certainly turn nasty if you physically try to stop them.

Then you start thinking about your own family. kids, life which is on hold for years whilst this person will not stop and also get advice to stop intervening because the alcoholic knows you're there to pick them up - back off and hope they will come to you.

Finally, when you're at your most deflated and defeated someone with no clue what it is like says something like "how can family and friends allow this?"

To be fair to Jimmy above, he does say that he has not experienced anything like that and accepts that, and it is easy to say where are his friends and family if you don't understand first hand how debilitating for everyone concerned these types of illnesses are.

Unless you've been through these things i guess it's impossible to understand how utterly destructive and beyond help a lot of these people become. The day in day out, week after week, month after month, year after year slog of trying desperately to help only to have it thrown back in your face is more than virtually any sane person can take.

I haven't experienced it first hand but can safely assume I wouldn't still be trying after 25 years or whatever to get him off the drink.

I've said for years now that Gazza is 'better off dead'.

I just hope he doesn't do a 'Besty' and have a liver transplant to prolong his drinking once Gazza's packs in. There are too many so called 'friends' who help him drink. Should they be prosecuted for assisted suicide when he eventually dies from liver failure?