EXPERIENCED JOURNALIST JOHN!WRAGG RECALLS WHAT IT WAS LIKE COVERING ENGLAND AT THE 1990 WORLD CUP

THREE LIONS ON TOUR
THE last time England got to a World Cup semi-final, I was waiting and waiting near a toilet block at the Stadio delle Alpi, Turin.
Stuart Pearce had missed one of the penalties against West Germany that knocked England out. Chris Waddle missed the other one.
As if that wasn’t enough, Pearce had been selected as one of the players for a post-match drug test.
Pearce was so dehydrated he couldn’t pee into the sample bottle. He swigged bottle after bottle of water. ...