A cheat who said he didn't cheat when he obviously did. Also a liar and drug taker who was booted out of a world cup for using drugs to boast his performance.
If you admire that more fool you.
Nothing to like there. Compared to Pele . You just can't.
We can compare them based on their footballing ability as they're both footballers. He may not have been the nicest person on the planet, like a significant number of footballers, but as a footballer he was amongst the best
He cheated...that ruins football but he then denied it...liar and cheat. I don't admire that . If you want you can . To me is pointless having rules of we admire those who can't play within them .
Thierry Henry cheated against Ireland,deliberate handball lead to the winning goal,rarely mentioned,If Maradona had done that to any other country nobody would have given a toss.Cheating is now part of the game,all the time players dive,feign injury,try to get opponents sent off,Lineker and Owen both went down very easily in world cup matches.Cyclists,athletes take drugs,none of this is right but Maradona was not the only guy who ever cheated on a sports field.(I remember Garth Crooks punching one in a Selhurst Park).
v Norwich? Fake diving header? (or is my memory crap)
100% this happened (at The Sainsbury End). I was stood level with it and the Norwich players rightly went mad. I liked Crooks but went off him after that.
I posted quite a few pages back that Viv Busby punched the ball in our net when we played Stoke in the league cup back in the 70s. Pretty sure Garth Crooks was playing for Stoke as well so I think it's fair to say let's blame Stoke City Football Club for promoting the punched goal across the football world. Maradona is innocent.
this is Diego in that game getting battered time after time
Can just imagine the size the chip woulda got to if DM had have used his hand of god against one of the other home nations. He'll always be remembered as a cheat by the majority(?) of England supporters and I dont understand how others cant accept that.
Think it's worth mentioning the amount of pats on the back the Scots got from quite a few England fans, over social media the other week an all.
VERY generous gift by Lothar Matthäus, who has donated the shirt worn by Maradona in the first half of the1986 final to the Argentine Football Association.
Watched an interesting documentary about him and his life on prime.
I had no idea about his Italian love/hate connection.
Whatever anyone's got to say about him, he did absolutely love football and he was an extraordinary talent. . His private life was not so private and he made mistakes, but he was only human and we only live once.
If he had modern day TLC psychological backing and help, then it's likely he would have had a more lengthy fufilling career.
Watched an interesting documentary about him and his life on prime.
I had no idea about his Italian love/hate connection.
Whatever anyone's got to say about him, he did absolutely love football and he was an extraordinary talent. . His private life was not so private and he made mistakes, but he was only human and we only live once.
If he had modern day TLC psychological backing and help, then it's likely he would have had a more lengthy fufilling career.
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Think it's worth mentioning the amount of pats on the back the Scots got from quite a few England fans, over social media the other week an all.
Argentina's first competitive game since his passing
VERY generous gift by Lothar Matthäus, who has donated the shirt worn by Maradona in the first half of the1986 final to the Argentine Football Association.
I had no idea about his Italian love/hate connection.
Whatever anyone's got to say about him, he did absolutely love football and he was an extraordinary talent.
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His private life was not so private and he made mistakes, but he was only human and we only live once.
If he had modern day TLC psychological backing and help, then it's likely he would have had a more lengthy fufilling career.