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I sat in the front row for Gazza’s show and saw a fragile soul laid bare

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Paul Gascoigne has been plying this circuit for years .

Even by his standards, this appearance in Lancashire feels loose.

He has loathed journalists since The Sun ran a Disgracefool ’ headline above a picture of him emerging, shirt torn and face bright red, from a Hong Kong bar in 1996 , having had cocktails mainlined down his throat in the now-notorious dentist’s chair’.

Paul Gascoigne has been in the spotlight for more than 20 years .

The former England striker is acutely vulnerable and often starts to cry.

Wherever he turns up, he encounters a reaction of near universal love.

He is at a loss to explain it: the scenes at his local Sainsbury ’s, for example, where fathers have been known to fall to their knees in appreciation.

Exocet of a free-kick against Arsenal in 1991 was described by Barry Davies as Schoolboys' Own stuff.

He struggles to understand why he is still being lauded for it.

While he might be toast of every bar and club he enters, a loneliness lies beneath the surface.

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