Troubled Gazza seeks treatment in US

WASHINGTON — Paul Gascoigne has been admitted to a treatment centre in the United States just 24 hours after his agent revealed the troubled former England star was losing his battle with alcoholism.

Gascoigne, who has struggled with alcohol problems for many years and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in 2008, was filmed sobbing and speaking incoherently at a charity event in Northampton last Thursday.

The footage, published by The Sun newspaper, prompted Gascoigne’s agent, Terry Baker, to say the 45-year-old needed immediate help and that, as an alcoholic, his life was “always in danger”.

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