Paul Gascoigne’s post-playing career has been fraught with negative incidents. The latest encounter occurred this month after Gazza was caught smoking at a snooker club called the Spot White in Newcastle. The bouncer, Paul Hindle, who had already stopped Gascoigne from smoking once, had had enough and ejected the former soccer star.

Gazza took offense to this red card and headbutted the bouncer, who happened to be a former soldier who had been in Iraq. He said, “I survived Basra without a scratch, then come home to Newcastle and get beaten up by Gazza. I couldn’t believe it. It hurt like hell – I had a headache for a day.”

Hindle decided not to press charges, and it looks like this incident will go no further, aside from being yet another black mark on Gascoigne’s resume. When your Wikipedia page contains an entire section with a long list of arrests and hospitalizations, you have not done well for yourself.

In all honesty, it’s a wonder that he’s even alive at this point. Between all of the drinking and related health problems, plus attacking a former soldier in a bar, Paul Gascoigne has certainly tempted fate.

Video: Gazza headbutts a snooker club bouncer [Off The Post]

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On TV shows, we’ve all seen creative ways of having papers served. In case you were curious to see if such surprises were actually done in real life, we have our answer from the Welsh Open snooker tournament.

Just before his quarterfinal match against Anthony Hamilton, Mark Selby was approached by a man in the crowd.

The guy leaned over to Selby, handed him an envelope, and said, “You are being served with a writ and bankruptcy notice”. The entire incident was broadcast live on BBC.

It turned out that the man who had given him the paperwork was George Barmby, his former manager. Judging by the timing of incident, it’s safe to say that there’s an acrimonious story behind “former” being added to his title. It takes some stones to serve a guy right before an important match. It’s not like he was going anywhere, surely it could have waited until right after.

Needless to say, Selby was put off his game, saying, “I didn’t know who it was. He handed me a letter, mumbled and went off. All I could think about was what might’ve been in the envelope.”

He lost the match.

Writ claim disrupts Selby match [BBC]
Writ shock precedes Mark Selby’s defeat [Times Online]

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