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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“I am a child of the sun, docile and simple. Perhaps it is because I am close to the land and have the ease of mind which comes from that; I cannot take anything seriously for long, not even football.”
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Garrincha
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…
