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Chris Flanagan

‘At Italia 90, the best bit about the entire tournament was that I knew I was the best player in the world’ Paul Gascoigne on being the best on Earth in 1990

Paul Gascoigne shot for the December 2025 issue of FourFourTwo magazine .

The 1990 World Cup has a special place in the heart of any football fan of that era.

The national sport was not in a good place at the end of the 1980s, with English fans carrying a reputation for hooliganism, fueled by events like the Heysel Stadium disaster, while the harrowing scenes of the Bradford City fire and Hillsborough were still fresh in the memory.

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