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John Lanchester, 6 December 1990

Stick it up your punter! The Rise and Fall of the ‘Sun’ 
by Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie.
Heinemann, 372 pp., £14.99, November 1990, 0 434 12624 1
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All played out: The True Story of Italia ’90 
by Pete Davies.
Heinemann, 471 pp., £14.99, October 1990, 0 434 17908 6
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Gazza! A Biography 
by Robin McGibbon.
Penguin, 204 pp., £3.99, October 1990, 9780140148688
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... man who is also somehow strangely armoured by his vulnerability – is substantially confirmed by Robin McGibbon’s biography of the footballer. (It was this book which gave a judge the opportunity to ask whether Gascoigne played ‘rugby or association football’; His Honour also seemed to think that the English version of La Gazza Ladra is The ...

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