Diego Maradona

[the stinking enigma]

Sad days, absolute legend. With today's protection from referees he'd  be untouchable. Proof of the old adage, there's a fine line between madness and genius. RIP fella.

 

[TheTeapot]

You make a good point about refs, here's the 'tackle' that led to his Barca career not taking off like it should have

Could just link clips and clips of footage of him, what an incredible player. Mexico 86 is still the best World Cup of my lifetime.

[Albert Tatlock]

[Shake me up Judy]

There've been great players who could do anything with a ball, but Maradona (And Pele before him) was the ball. His genius on the pitch will far outlive all the other stuff.

[Uhtred]

I thought ‘Like a Virgin’ was crap but ‘Material Girl’ was ok.

[Scotty]

2 hours ago, Shake me up Judy said:

There've been great players who could do anything with a ball, but Maradona (And Pele before him) was the ball. His genius on the pitch will far outlive all the other stuff.

Nah. He was good, but never great. Cheating the way he did and saying god helped him was a very stupid move and he lost lots of respect. He cheated period. There is no god , period. He was never the best, period.

[the stinking enigma]

That'll do for me. goat it is. 

[the stinking enigma]

Up until that point I was undecided.

[manxman1980]

11 hours ago, Scotty said:

Nah. He was good, but never great. Cheating the way he did and saying god helped him was a very stupid move and he lost lots of respect. He cheated period. There is no god , period. He was never the best, period.

That is the very blinkered view from England.  The guy had an extraordinary amount of talent.

Where he lost some respect from me was his apparent drug problem but he is far from alone in the world of ex-professional footballers in that regard.

[wrighty]

Great player.  I remember watching the 'hand of god' match when he somehow managed to get it over the top of Shilton (How??? Even with his hands up, Shilton should have been there first, I mean the guy was only about 4'8").  My dad was livid, but even he, when Maradona scored his second dribbling round most of the England team, said "I suppose I'll give him that one".

I know he was only 60, but with all the drug stories I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did.

[the stinking enigma]

I'm not actually sure that had maradona been English, he'd even have been selected for their '86 world cup squad. Quite bizarre really.

[Apple]

None better to watch live than George Best. Magic.

[The Dog's Dangly Bits]

On 11/25/2020 at 10:12 PM, Scotty said:

Nah. He was good, but never great. Cheating the way he did and saying god helped him was a very stupid move and he lost lots of respect. He cheated period. There is no god , period. He was never the best, period.

That's shows a lack of understanding about football.

Pretty much every player is cheating in football.  You only have to look at how they appeal for a throw in when it blatantly isn't their throw in to know that. 

Maradona was systematically targeted by the opposition.  To think what he would have done with the protection players get today.

Sure, he handled the ball against England.  But his second goal sums up why he is one of THE greatest players ever.   England were not above cheating.  They took in turns to foul Maradona that day.

[Scotty]

On 11/30/2020 at 7:35 AM, The Dog's Dangly Bits said:

That's shows a lack of understanding about football.

Pretty much every player is cheating in football.  You only have to look at how they appeal for a throw in when it blatantly isn't their throw in to know that. 

Maradona was systematically targeted by the opposition.  To think what he would have done with the protection players get today.

Sure, he handled the ball against England.  But his second goal sums up why he is one of THE greatest players ever.   England were not above cheating.  They took in turns to foul Maradona that day.

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[Scotty]

Biggest cheat ever was Steve Gerrard.