num_pages: 476
description: 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. All Played Out - the first and last book to give the inside story of the greatest show on Earth. 'Pete Davies is incapable of writing a dull sentence. . . one of the most outrageously entertaining books of the year' Daily Post.
language: English
title: All Played Out
publisher: Random House UK