Remembering Antonio Rattin

The Argentina captain came to be defined by his sending off in the World Cup in 1966 but he was a much better player and more complex character than the bogeyman image allows

The great Argentinian left-back Silvio Marzolini once told me that Bobby Charlton had told him that Antonio Rattín was such a bogeyman in England that parents would tell their children that if they didn’t behave, Rattin would come for them. I assume this isn’t true (although if anybody’s parents did say that to them, by all means get in touch) and I hav…