Kevin Allen's World Cup Video Diary Italia 1990 (Part 10)

10 of 12 - Good fly on the wall type doco by Kevin Allen of an England fan's eye view of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Finals in Italy ... traveling only with his camcorder for the BBC series Video Diaries, in an episode entitled 'On The March With Bobby's Army', this captures what it was like to follow England abroad during a period when English clubs were still banned from Europe and with a reputation for hooliganism. First aired on BBC 2 in 1991.

[@SepulchreBrit]

Loved that hat and linen blazer chap telling it how it really was.

[@ciaranriley5028]

David bloomfield 1990 version of eddie hearn

[@claret2k]

I was on this campsite, I was travelling around europe and after the Cameroon game like so many others I made a beeline for Turin from Chamonix on the train with no vouchers or England passes. I was armed with an army surplus German trenchcoat, rucksack, tent and travellers cheques. I queued for hours and didn't get a ticket. On the night of Italy v Argentina we watched the game on a portable in the back of a campervans then we were attacked by Juve fans whilst Italian police turned their backs.

[@Asaint100]

2,000 England tickets for an 80,000 capacity stadium can this be right!

[@nicholasswatman3891]

Reggie, Chatty and Black Man Ray, via Amy', in a Peugeot 104. What a fuckin' trip.

[@db0800]

Good on hat man for speaking the truth.

[@Charlietwice]

They take the sound away on no11 and 12 so don't bother.

[@claret2k]

We were forced to stand and fight as Juve fans came at us with knives and god knows what else, the police pumped tear gas into our side of the site. A lad from Wigan who I had got to know walked out and was battered with truncheons by the police and thrown back in. Enough was enough I was on my way back to France the morning after and whilst at Turin train station when as fighting was going on around us (German v Dutch) I was sold a ticket by a Dutchman. What an experience...never again