One Night In Turin

Recently, I read from the web that a movie called "One Night in Turin" has been released this year. The movie is about my favourite England football team of Italia 90. I was excited and find time this morning to search for it on the internet. Managed to locate it on free online streaming site and enjoyed every minute of it.

This is an excellent, true account & unbiased movie about England football team in Italia 90. Been waiting for a film like this to be made about this great team for 20 years. It made me miss Gazza, Lineker, Waddle, Butcher, Shilton, Platt, Pearce, Bobby Robson, etc even more. Thumbs up.

I have very fond memories of Bobby Robson England team. Maybe because there are my favourite Spurs players in it and they played with lots of heart and passion. I just took out a copy of my old shoot magazine dated 14th July 1990. It was a post 1990 World Cup copy and on the last page, the headline is : " WE"RE PROUD OF YOU. ENGLAND YOU WERE MAGNIFICENT."

Here's the abstract from the July 14th 1990 Shoot magazine view on the Italia 90 England football team:

English football can hold its head high once more.

For not since that glorious day in July 1966 has our national team commanded such worldwide respect.

Derided, patronised and reviled for more than 20 years, it seemed that the days when we could seriously challenged soccer's super powers were a distant memory.

But as Graham Taylor prepares to take up the international challenge, the opportunity is suddenly there for England to build for a glorious football future.

Bobby Robson, disgracefully treated by his critics throughout his eight-year reign, will now be judged by history as an England manager to rank alongside Sir Alf Ramsey.

And even last Wednesday's Semi-final defeat in Turin cannot detract from the achievement of Robson's young lions these past five weeks.

It would be wrong to claim that England were the best of the 24 World Cup finalists. That honour belongs to West Germany. But as proved in the Stadio Delle Alpi, at least they are now in the same class.

No blame has been attached to Stuart Pearce or Chris Waddle for those penalty misses, just as no one player deserves special praise. For it was a team effort which served England so well and, in defeat as well as victory, the players stood side by side.

It is possible to run through the entire England side and single out virtually everyone of them as England's Italia 90 star.

Certainly every department of the team more than fulfilled all expectations.

In goal Peter Shilton proved with saves against Cameroon and West Germany that, even at 40, he's still the best goalkeeper in the world.

In defence the players adapted magnificently to the sudden introduction of the sweeper system. Mark Wright, Paul Parker and Des Walker have rightly been praised, but the contributions of Stuart Pearce and Terry Butcher must not go unnoticed.

In midfield Paul Gascoigne emerged as one of the stars of the tournament. David Platt proved a worthy replacement for the injured Bryan Robson and Trevor Steven's versatility came as an unexpected late bonus.

In attack Gary Lineker showed he is a match for any striker in the world. Van Basten, Degryse, Klinsmann and even Milla couldn't put him in the shade.

Now Graham Taylor will inherit a team confident in the system they are playing in and even more confident in the men around them.

The European Championship qualifying matches kick-off in the next couple of months and the new manager will soon be forced to decide whether to persevere with the likes of Robson, Shilton and Butcher.

It will be a sad day when those England stalwarts are forced into international retirement. But as least they will go with the knowledge that they have laid the foundations for an exciting new era for English football.