It's not nice to hear he's unwell, but I lost all respect for the bloke when the revelations of him beating his wife for two years came out. I'm sure some of you in here posting well wishes for him also vilified Van der Vaart?
I do hope he gets well, but I struggle to feel sympathy for him anymore.
Obviously that was an awful thing to do, however I really don't get the impression that Gazza is a bad person. I think he is a genuinely good, well-meaning bloke but he obviously has a lot of problems and IMO this was at the heart of his behaviour with his wife. I'm not condoning what he did, but life is complicated and its twists and turns sometimes lead good people to do bad things, things they later regret...our sympathy won't help him at this stage but I think he deserves it.