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Italia '90 - Gazza cried and football changed forever.Once you could ignore football, avoid the back pages, turn the telly over, leave the pub. Now that's not possible because on 4 July 1990 in Turin's Stadium of the Alps Gazza cried, England lost and football changed forever.Pete Davies witnessed all of this first hand. The players, the hooligans, the agents, the journalists, the fans - the full cast of football's rowdy circus. For nine month he had access to the England squad and their manager, Bobby Robson, talking to them freely about their hopes, their fears, their methods and their lives. So this is the real story, the unedited verdion.One Night in Turin is the first and last book to give the inside story of the greatest show on Earth.

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Riveting, surging, passionately written. The book which made it possible for football literature to mean something other than daft ghosted biographies * FourFourTwo * Exhilarating ... full of drama, full of its own reckless and compelling logic * Indpendent * Pete Davies is incapable of writing a dull sentence... outrageously entertaining * Daily Post *

Pete Davies is incapable of writing a dull sentence... one of the most outrageously entertaining books of the year Daily Post Riveting, surging, passionately written. The book which made it possible for football literature to mean something other than daft ghosted biographies FourFourTwo Exhilarating ... full of drama, full of its own reckless and compelling logic Indpendent

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Pete Davies is the author of 11 acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. His 1990 classic All Played Out was a bestseller and has been in print ever since. It has recently made into a 90 minute film directed by James Erksine, with the new title One Night in Turin. Pete Davies lives in West Yorkshire.

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