WORDS: PETER BOURNE
Triumph and tragedy sit uneasily alongside each other as Peter Bourne looks at the moments, the men and the mindset that define one of Italy’s oldest clubs in the second part of his love letter to Torino…
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“Get the ball, give an early pass, then it goes from me to someone else and it switches around again. You might not be getting very far, but the pattern of the opposition is changing. Finally, somebody will sneak in.”
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Bill Shankly
Articles by Peter Bourne …
20 Years Of Hurt: Torino And Me
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: PETER BOURNE
A chance sighting of the BBC’s UEFA Cup highlights in 1992 saw an impressionable English youngster nail his colours to the mast of Torino. Now old enough to know better, Peter Bourne talks us through two decades of abject anguish as a Toro devotee. Calcio, it appears, can be a cruel mistress…
