I wasn’t able to go to the Italy match but still remember cycling to Lansdowne on the Sunday before the match to watch them train- and got Mazzola,and Fachetti’s autographs and others ; there was no security etc. and it was great to see what to me were almost ‘gods’ in the flesh ( right up there with our own Mick Leech) whom we’d all got to know via TV coverage of the 1970 World Cup finals….. innocent times
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