Flawed is perhaps a little too judgemental... lost may be more appropriate considering the circumstances.
Yeah... we can all have and are susceptible to demons and as Ducbird said some find them harder than others to cope with. And you often find it's those with great skills in one area who do struggle. Gazza comes to mind.
The best quote about his antics was the one about when he first tested the factory Kawasaki…. “At our first test with him at Eastern Creek we were doing his first debrief, with all the Japanese engineers sitting there, pens hovering, waiting to take notes and get his first impression of the bike. And he says, ‘Well, I need two things: I need a cage in the back of the garage with a dancing girl in it and we’ve got to get some beers in the fridge’. “Then he gets up and walks out. There were six Japanese engineers sitting around the table and they didn’t know what to do, what to say or what had just happened. With his talent, he should’ve been world champion, but it was never going to happen.
obituary from mcn Australia: Anthony Gobert - “The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” | MCNews
In June 2019, Gobert was reported to have been involved in an altercation at a restaurant. Afterwards, he was followed home by a number of individuals whom he had earlier fought with. They forced their way into Gobert's home, robbed him, and beat him with baseball bats. He was beaten beyond recognition. Hospital staff were only able to identify him after he had regained consciousness
What a lad he was! I remember him t-boning Neil Hodgson off track, quite deliberately. When asked by his pit crew why he did it, he replied ‘coz I hate the cvnt’
