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TROTT’S TEARS PROVED A POWERFUL WEAPON

by
The Cricket Paper Team
9 August 2020

PETER HAYTER

Gazza’s tears; everyone remembers them and what they meant. That hot Italia ‘90 night in Turin, when national TV captured Paul Gascoigne’s dreadful realisation that a yellow card in the semi-final against West Germany had just ruled him out of a possible World Cup final appearance, has often been cited as a watershed for English football, the moment when his meltdown rekindled the wider public’s love for the game. It might be stretching things a tad to make such claims for Barney Douglas’ brilliant feature film The Edge, screened on BBC 2 the ot...