COLIN ALLAN recalls when the Three Lions won a tournament but with little fanfare…

COLIN ALLAN
ONLY the previous year, England had come within a whisker of the World Cup final.
Now, in 1991, they were on an unbeaten run under their new team manager, the late Graham Taylor.
Surely a triangular international tournament which pitted England against World Cup finalists Argentina and a formidable Soviet Union side would fire the public’s imagination?
But the England Challenge Cup of May 1991 proved as ill-fated as the defunct Rous Cup of 1985-89 (see Issue 43).
Unfortunately, the ne...