- Brother of Anna-Marie Gascoigne.
- English soccer player.
- He was dropped from the England team shortly before the 1998 World Cup, and hasn't played for the national side since.
- A midfielder, he was a key member of the England teams that progressed to the semi-finals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the 1996 UEFA European Championship.
- His brilliant individual goal for England against Scotland in Euro '96 is widely regarded as being one of the finest combinations of skill and finishing ever seen on the international soccer stage.
- Made his England debut against Denmark on 14 September 1988.
- His first international goal was against Czechoslovakia on 25 April 1990.
- FA Cup winner with Tottenham Hotspur FC (1991).
- He was notorious for being able to score from free-kicks a long way from the goal.
- Has a son, Regan Gascoigne born in 1996, with ex-wife Sheryl Gascoigne.
- Played 57 times for England national team (1988 to 1998) and scored 10 goals.
- In 1990 his performances for England in that year's FIFA World Cup earned him the honour of BBC Sports Personality of the Year, making him the first footballer since Bobby Moore in 1966 to win the award.
- He famously cried in the 1990 World Cup semi-final, after he was issued a yellow card that meant he would be suspended for the final if England qualified.
- His football career was hampered by injury and a frequent lack of fitness, due largely to his bad diet of junk food and alcohol.
- Made public that he wishes to be referred to as G8 as part of his new image. He has shed weight and stopped drinking and now wants the new nickname, which is a combination of the first letter of his surname and the number he wore through most of his footballing career, to cement his new, improved TV image. [November 2004]
- He met his ex-wife Sheryl Failes Kyle after she broke up from her first husband, Colin Kyle, with whom she had two children with - Mason Gascoigne (b. 1990) and Bianca Gascoigne (b. 1986). They all lived together until Paul and Sheryl divorced in 1998.
- Arrested over alleged assault on a photographer, and sacked as Manager of Kettering Town FC after an allegation of being unfit to manage the team due to alcoholism. (December 2005)
- Suffers from OCD.
- Appointed player-coach at Boston United FC (July 2004)
- Sacked as Manager of Kettering Town after 39 days in post (December 2005)
- Working as a pundit for ITV during their coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. (June 2002)
- Resigned as player-coach at Boston United FC (October 2004)
- Appointed Manager of non-league Kettering Town (October 2005)
- Following England's defeat to Croatia in the semifinal of the 2018 World Cup, Chris Waddle stated that England had not had a "creative midfield player" since Gascoigne.
- Was once slated to star in an action thriller titled Final Run as a heroic survivor battling aliens in order to save the human race.
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