Film Review: from World Cup glory to abuse and excess, the Gazza documentary holds nothing back

"Surrounded by leeches, so-called advisers and tabloid journalists bleeding him dry to sell newspapers, Gascoigne’s career became an unsustainable roller-coaster of professional highs and private lows."

Paul Gascoigne: the centre of a documentary that views his legacy through the eyes of friends and colleagues

★★★★☆

There is, as they used to sing, only one Gazza (15A). Sampson Collins’ documentary on the life (so far) of Paul Gascoigne offers little new in terms of Gazza’s football brilliance — for many years he was ‘England’s brightest football hope’ — but instead seeks to shine a light on Gascoigne’s private life, and the many ways in which his on-field genius was fragile edifice built on very shaky foundations.