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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“It was Holland in the 1970s that really took my breath away. It was a mystery to me. The television was too small; I felt like I needed to see the whole pitch fully to understand.”
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Arrigo Sacchi
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…
