Maradona dead?

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  1. Prince of Risborough

    Prince of Risborough Well-Known Member

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    I find the BBC Maradona love-in completely vomit inducing. They’ve got Ossie Ardiles saying that “to be Diego Maradona was incredibly beautiful”. Give me strength! How can you call a drug addled sporting cheat beautiful?? I’m sick of this story already and there won’t be any RIP Diego sentiments from me.
     
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    Fair enough, I can imagine how bad it must have felt at the time. Maradona was a cheat, he even admitted it himself, but was he really that much worse than many others? What about the whole England team who tried to murder Maradona on the pitch that day? What about that deliberate elbow in his face that would result in a lengthy ban these days? How's that not cheating?
     
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    No they didn't try to murder him! For starters, nobody got remotely close enough to do that. In fact, rumour has it that Terry Fenwick is still sitting on his arse on the edge of the penalty box in Mexico, thinking about whether to put a tackle in.
     
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    Truly outrageous. That's a proper warm up that is!
     
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  6. Jay

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    That's nonsense Tomi. I can only assume you've never seen the game. There was no deliberate attempt to take out Maradona in that game. You've just got that wrong, plain and simple.
     
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  7. Tomi

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    Well, at least Fenwick tried to murder him! :p He should have been sent off twice, but at least Maradona got to have his "revenge" that day. I guess the world got to witness Maradona's wonder goal partly thanks to Fenwick's yellow card.

    Anyway, it's unbelievable how much more rough the game was back then! Watching clips of some of those tackles that Maradona had to endure during his career makes me cringe.
     
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    Deliberate elbow in the face isn't a deliberate attempt to take someone out?
     
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    Bet he'd have been good on Strictly come dancing!
     
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    I'm fairly sure that I've actually seen the game, but I was too young to truly understand it (hell, I still don't understand football!) or remember it. So yeah, you have a point there. :) But as a bit of a fan I've seen the highlights lots of times, and you can't deny that Fenwick's job wasn't to take out Maradona in that game... of course the game was more rough back then, but still. My point about that elbow still stands - how's that not cheating?
     
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    All this vitriol is proper weird. People are reflecting on his genius on the pitch and the impact he had on the game. Nothing more. So he took drugs. So what? Millions do. Tyson Fury did. George Best destroyed not one liver but two. One of which was donated and could have gone a far more deserving host. Paul Gascoigne has offended every bit as much as Maradona, and he’ll be adourned by the same people still spitting feathers about a handball 35 years ago. People need to move on.
     
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    Yeah, his Kung Fu kicks were amazing lol :)
     
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    I think we can lose the question mark in the thread title now can't we
     
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    Can’t remember the incident but if it was b4 the goal. Dint hit him hard enough. Chance they would have not won the game. The vitriol is no more different than people trying to condemn lineker. It was a back handed compliment. Just like the goal.
     
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    Why.? Has it only just been confirmed. :)
     
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    What on God's earth are you talking about? Where Maradona ran into the back of Fenwick and faked injury? Is that what you're talking about? A nonsense bit of play that has been hyped up by Maradona wannabes to justify his cheating? Is that what you're banging on about? If it's that bad, there'll be loads of footage of it all over the web. So find some. There isn't because it's just another example of Maradona cheating. And anyone who has ever examined the footage can see that.
     
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    There wasn't an incident, it's just another example of Maradona cheating.
     
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    He cheated for the handball but the second was sublime.
     
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    This the guy you're trying to say was being murdered? Good grief.

     
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    Yes it was, an amazing goal, genius footballer, but that's not what Tomi is talking about, he's trying to change history.
     
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