{"id":11506,"date":"2025-07-21T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=11506"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:02:14","slug":"paul-gascoigne-in-hospital-personal-assistant-says-after-reported-collapse-paul-gascoigne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=11506","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gascoigne in hospital, personal assistant says, after reported collapse | Paul Gascoigne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Paul Gascoigne is in hospital, his personal assistant has said, after the former England midfielder was reportedly found semi-conscious in his bedroom. Gascoigne was said by the Sun to have been admitted to an intensive care ward on Friday before being moved to an acute medical unit, where his condition was described as stable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Steve Foster, Gascoigne\u2019s friend, driver and personal assistant, was reported to have found the 58-year-old at home in Poole, Dorset. \u201cPaul is in hospital, which is the best possible place for him to be right now,\u201d Foster was quoted by the Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Foster also said that Gascoigne would \u201clike to thank everyone for the support he\u2019s received so far from so many old friends who wish him well and want to see him back to his best\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1ypwo6h\">Quick Guide<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"dcr-1fa5dcn\">How do I sign up for sport breaking news alerts?<\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-55zfp0\"><span class=\"dcr-3j53am\"><span class=\"dcr-41evle\"><\/span>Show<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the Guardian app from the iOS App Store on iPhone or the Google Play store on Android by searching for &#8216;The Guardian&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>If you already have the Guardian app, make sure you\u2019re on the most recent version.<\/li>\n<li>In the Guardian app, tap the Menu button at the bottom right, then go to Settings (the gear icon), then Notifications.<\/li>\n<li>Turn on sport notifications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Gascoigne, nicknamed Gazza, is widely recognised as one of English football\u2019s most exciting talents of the past 40 years. His clubs included Newcastle, Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers and he played 57 times for England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Gascoigne is in hospital, his personal assistant has said, after the former England midfielder was reportedly found semi-conscious in his bedroom. Gascoigne was said by the Sun to have been admitted to an intensive care ward on Friday before being moved to an acute medical unit, where his condition was described as stable. Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4618,2345,4903,578,973,2517,4904],"class_list":{"0":"post-11506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-assistant","9":"tag-collapse","10":"tag-gascoigne","11":"tag-hospital","12":"tag-paul","13":"tag-personal","14":"tag-reported"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}