39 Days of Gazza - When Paul Gascoigne arrived to manage Kettering Town, people lined the streets to greet him. Just 39 days later, Gazza was gone and the club was on it's knees…
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As the first-time manager of a provinical non-League football team, former England star Paul Gascoigne promised to fulfil their dreams. Then, in the space of just 39 days, both manager and team saw a dramatic reversal of fortune… Gazza was the English football icon of the 1990s. His magnificent midfield play provided some of England's most memorable moments, and he enjoyed a headline-grabbing career with Newcastle United, Tottenham, Lazio, Glasgow Rangers, Middlesborough and Everton. Then it all went terribly wrong. He still made the headlines, but for all the wrong reasons – alcoholism, drugs, wife-beating, personality disorder, run-ins with the law, nervous breakdown. Like his great hero George Best, Gascoigne seemed to have passed a personal point of no return. Then in the autumn of 2005, he was given a chance to rebuild his career with his first job as a football manager. As part of a consortium which bought Kettering Town, Gazza reinvented himself. Appearing to have his personal problems under control, he took charge – full of big ideas about steering the club into the Football League and towards the big time. The people of Kettering were star-struck by the celebrity among them. And yet, within just a few short weeks after Gascoigne was appointed manager, he would be sacked amidst an increasingly bizarre series of allegations, leaving a once hopeful club on its knees. In39 Days of Gazza, author Steve Pitts tells the story of how the disintegration of Gascoigne's managerial role impacted on so many people's lives – not least his own. This is a tragicomedy of English football, on a par with the fictionalised appraoch of The Damned United. Told by a writer who was close enough to factually observe the events, it features revealing contributions from many who were present at the time.
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Steve Pitts. 39 Days of Gazza - When Paul Gascoigne arrived to manage Kettering Town, people lined the streets to greet him. Just 39 days later, Gazza was gone and the club was on it's knees…
CONTENTS
GAZZA? YOU’RE HAVING A LAUGH!
FIT TO BE A MANAGER?
GAZZAMANIA!
I KNOW WHAT THEY’RE SAYING – AND I’LL PROVE THEM WRONG!
FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL IN A PART-TIME WORLD
ALREADY FEELING THE STRAIN
PLAY LIKE YOU’RE WORLD CUP WINNERS!
RETURN TO THE DENTIST’S CHAIR
WHO WANTS A LAMBORGHINI?
THE DEATH OF GEORGE BEST
GASCOIGNE SACKED
GAZZA OR THE DOCTOR?
BREAKING DOWN … IN GAZZA’S OWN WORDS
MOORE’S NOT THE MERRIER
NO HAPPY RETURN FOR WILSON
THE STRANGE CASE OF RYAN-ZICO BLACK
‘I’LL GET YOU ROBBIE WILLIAMS’
GASCOIGNE’S HIGH PRICE OF FAME
KEY DATES
PRAISE FOR 39 DAYS OF GAZZA
Copyright
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Since the first edition of this book was published in 2009, Peter Mallinger, the Kettering Town chairman, who sold the club to Imraan Ladak, has sadly passed away. As those who read this book will be aware, he was at the heart of almost everything that happened during Paul Gascoigne’s brief time as manager and, because of that, it has been decided to leave the story as it was first told.
PRAISE FOR 39 DAYS OF GAZZA
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Dunham spent a couple of hours digging around to try to find out what Gascoigne was doing there. But he didn’t get anywhere; amid all the speculation and gossip, anyone with any real information on what Gascoigne was doing at the club was not prepared to talk openly. But he did uncover another story: it seemed that not only was Gascoigne interested in becoming the new manager, but he was also looking to buy the club.
Dunham trusted his source but still found it hard to believe that Kettering Town could be of interest to somebody of Gascoigne’s stature in the game. Here was an England legend, capped 57 times for his country, who had played for some of Europe’s top clubs. Kettering Town were so low down the pecking order that they had spent the previous few years in the shadows of Rushden & Diamonds, their despised neighbours a few miles down the road, a club that had been created little more than a decade earlier by Dr Martens mogul Max Griggs.
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