October 11 – George Weah Runs for President and Gazza Being Polite? Nor-way!

Two footballing geniuses take the limelight today, although they couldn’t be more different if they tried…

2005 – George Weah Runs for President

BACK in the old days, when a player hung up his boots he’d buy a local pub and spend his days sat on a bar stool telling the punters all about his past glories. Nowadays they earn more in a year than most of us will in a lifetime, so once a player’s time is up, the world’s his oyster. Whereas most choose to spend their days on the golf course and pile on the pounds, you get the occasional ex-pro who has loftier ambitions. None have exemplified this more than former World Player of the Year George Weah, who today in 2005 ran for president in his native Liberia. See how he got on here.

1992 – Gazza Being Polite? Nor-way!

If anyone in the UK has watched the recent re-runs of An Impossible Job, the excellent documentary that followed Graham Taylor’s England team in their efforts to qualify for the 1994 World Cup, then you’ll remember what a loose cannon Paul Gascoigne was.

Today in 1992 Gazza came up with one of the more funny moments in recent football history. When quizzed by a hack from England’s next opponents, the ‘Fog on the Tyne’ hitmaker was asked if he had anything to say to the people of Norway. Click here for his not-so-diplomatic answer.

Diego who?