Gazza Gets Involved

In one of the more bizarre celebrity stories, Paul Gascoigne managed to get involved in Britain's biggest man hunt, for on-the-run gunman, Raoul Moat. It seems Gazza had had a skinful (nothing very unusual there) and had then taken a cab from Newcastle up to Rothbury, where half the British police force seemed to be assembled in an attempt to ambush one man. Gazza arrived, armed with a can of lager, a mobile phone, some chicken and a dressing gown, as he approached the police asking to talk to his "old mate" Moaty (as Gazza has previously claimed to be good mates with the pope, nobody really took him seriously). Gazza seemed pretty convinced that he could offer Moat (who used to be a bouncer in Newcastle) some therapy and sort him out. Sadly, the police didn't let Gazza go in and bring the stand off to a peaceful end (could he really have fudged it more than the police?!) Even more surprising, today comes the news that perhaps Gazza actually DID know Moat... I'm seeing a new role for the lost sheep that is Paul Gascoigne - chief negotiator for Britain's police...