We have to be careful about this one, but we’ve checked the date twice and April 1st was a couple of weeks ago and the BBC are carrying the story, so it’s probably got at least some foundation in the world of fact.Huh? you may well ask as you choke on your lunchtime sarnie. Well only the news that ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson has offered to counsel troubled Geordie genius Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne when he tours the UK in a couple of week’s time.
Now before we start with the mocking, let’s be clear, both sportsmen are legends, there’s surely never been as fearsome a boxer as Iron Mike in his heyday and Gazza? Well nothing quite lives as fondly in our footy memories as watching Gazza bamboozle Colin Hendrie to score this pearler and knock the Sweaties out of Euro 96 - and then follow it up with the splendid Dentist’s Chair.
Despite their many and varied individual troubles, both found vindication in world class sporting talenst and it’s been genuinely sad to watch their slow but steady decline since leaving their respective games.
But surely this is a step too far? Ignore the fact Iron Mike is on a lecture tour (the mind genuinely boggles), or that apparently he’s dished out the shoulder to cry on to Wayne Rooney. Both to filed under 'worrying but apparently true'.
Nope, contemplate for a moment the form this counselling might take and the carnage these two could cause on a celebratory night out on the piss in Geordietown. It would be a chance for them to redefine the term world class all over again.
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