FOOTIE legend Paul Gascoigne told how he headbutted and punched his dead dad’s body after he passed away in hospital.
The grief-stricken former England ace said it was his ‘revenge’ for his father’s past sins.
Gazza liked to take his dad around the world during his playing careerCredit: Hulton Archive – Getty
Gazza blamed his father for putting him in a mental institution after his notorious 2010 visit to runaway cop killer Raoul Moat.
In a poignant interview the star admitted he didn’t handle his father John’s death from cancer in 2018 well.
He said: “When it was just me and him in the hospital bed and he passed away, I f*****g jumped on the bed and punched him.
“I headbutted and punched him and got my own back from when I was younger.
“Then I just laid there and hugged him for 45 minutes.
“You just think sometimes, ‘He’s still there’.”
Gazza added: “Saturdays are when I miss him. But he was so dry.
“He’d talk to anyone but he wouldn’t talk to me.
Gascoigne won 57 caps for EnglandCredit: Getty Images – Getty
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“I loved to take him around the world with me when I played.
“At the moment I’m alright, but I’ll be thinking of it, the good times I had – I probably had more good times than bad times.
“I must have bought my dad about 80 cars and 18 boats and houses.
“I got divorced and gave a lot of money to my family. I spent a lot on houses, buying and renting different places.”
Gazza, 53, also admitted he fancied Match of the Day host Gary Lineker when he signed for Spurs because he looked like a ‘ladyboy’.
He said on a podcast with James English: “I remember when we signed Gary I quite fancied him, he didn’t have a hair on his body.
“I remember saying, ‘Lineker you’re like a f***ing ladyboy.’ He just laughed.”
Gazza also used to leave his car on Spurs striker Lineker’s drive to get him a parking ticket.
Gary Lineker was often teased by the Geordie maverickCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
Gazza was a Rangers icon in the 1990sCredit: Getty Images – Getty
He said: “I knew where Gary lived, after training I’d get ready really quickly and get in my car, fly to his house and put my car in his park space and go off into London.
“I’d stay the night and he couldn’t park his car up, he’d have to leave his outside and get a ticket. He’d get a ticket all the time.
“The manager called me in and said, ‘You’ve got to stop that, f***ing Lineker is fuming you keep leaving your car outside his door.’”
The former Everton and Lazio maverick said he was declared a genius after he was sent for brain scans by Rangers boss Walter Smith.
Troubled Gazza spent months looking for gunmen, expecting his mail to explode, and checking for bombs under his car after he mimicked a flute player in a loyalist band while playing for the Scottish club.
Gazza pretended to play the instrument like an Orange Order band member while playing for the Ibrox side in a pre-season friendly in 1995. He then repeated the gesture in 1998 in an Old Firm clash with Celtic.
Cops told him an IRA assassin had left his name and number with the death threat.
The assassin was visited by police but he vowed to kill Gazza, leaving the star in fear until the IRA lifted the threat on his life.
Calpol is 0.001per cent volume, so I’d have 15 bottles as they’d be the same as a pint
Paul Gascoigne
Gazza, who has battled booze and drug addiction, said he attended rehab for an addiction to cough medicine.
He said other addicts would be stunned when he said in group therapy he was fixed on Calpol, as they were on heroin, coke and booze.
Gazza revealed: “Calpol is 0.001per cent volume, so I’d have 15 bottles as they’d be the same as a pint.”
Pharmacists across Newcastle barred him from every shop for trying to mass buy bottles of Calpol.
He used to say he had nine kids he needed to use it on, but they would kick him out.
‘IT’S THE FOREIGN PREMIERSHIP’
Gazza said he was going to star on Strictly Come Dancing in Italy but it was cancelled due to the coronavirus.
He is slowly lining up new work with after-dinner talks to make a living.
The star said also the Premier League should be called Foreign Premier League due to all the overseas players.
He ranted: “Football today is completely different, I think it has a lot to do with the foreigners coming in.
“They call it the English Premiership, it’s not the English Premiership, it’s the foreign Premiership. You see some top teams playing against each other and they’ve got two Englishmen in the team, which is a shame for our young kids coming through.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
