David Platt puts England through to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup scoring a memorable volley in the very last minute of the Extra-Time

On 4 July 1990, in Turin’s Stadium of the Alps, Gazza cried, England lost and football changed forever.

This is the story Pete Davies witnessed first hand.

The players, the hooligans, the agents, the journalists, the fans – the full cast of football’s rowdy circus. For nine months 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.