IT was a morning of mixed emotions for football legend Paul Gascoigne. Yesterday Gazza received a certificate congratulating him for staying “clean and sober” after successfully completing his “detox”; the first stage in an alcohol rehabilitation programme at a Bournemouth addiction treatment centre.
But the moment had already been marred by headlines he had woken up to claiming he had groped a shop assistant at a Boscombe chemist’s shop after falling off the wagon.
A national tabloid newspaper also claimed that the ex-England, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United ace had asked a window cleaner to buy him two cans of Stella after they had bumped into each other in the street.
In a bid to put the record straight Gascoigne, 43, agreed to speak exclusively to the Daily Echo at the Providence Projects clinic in Boscombe.
• See Wednesday's Echo for the Gascoigne interview
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