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Paul Gascoigne 'just had to stand up for' TV historian after racist school attack

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Paul Gascoigne has spoken for the first time of how he tackled racist children who bullied TV historian David Olusoga at their school.

The former England and Tottenham footie ace, 53, was a few years above David, 50, at Brighton Avenue Juniors in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

David told the Mirror last year of the abuse he suffered growing up in nearby St Cuthbert’s Village. And he said that after being knocked down in the playground one day, he looked up to see Gazza offering to help.

David said: “I remember him putting his hand out to pick me up. I was five or six and he was nine or 10. I recall it vividly, because I had never known anyone with blue eyes. "He was the only tough kid who did not have a problem with black people.” Gazza, now

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