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Maradona Dead

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Football legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60.

The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November.

It was then announced he was to be treated for alcohol dependency.

One of the greatest players of all time, Maradona was captain when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, producing a series of sublime individual performances.

He played for Barcelona and Napoli during his club career, winning two Serie A titles with the Italian side.

Maradona scored 34 goals in 91 appearances for Argentina, representing them in four World Cups.

He led his country to the 1990 final in Italy, where they were beaten by West Germany, before captaining them again in the United States in 1994, but was sent home after failing a drugs test for ephedrine.

During the second half of his career, Maradona struggled with cocaine addiction and was banned for 15 months after testing positive for the drug in 1991.

He retired from professional football in 1997, on his 37th birthday, during his second stint at Argentine giants Boca Juniors.

Having briefly managed two sides in Argentina during his playing career, Maradona was appointed head coach of the national team in 2008 and left after the 2010 World Cup, where his side were beaten by Germany in the quarter-finals.

He subsequently managed teams in the United Arab Emirates and Mexico and was in charge of Gimnasia y Esgrima in Argentina's top flight at the time of his death.
 
Hastings said:
The best footballer footballer in my lifetime other than Gary Briggs
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I would put at least ten above Briggs :. Ronaldo, Pele , Best, Roberto Carlos , Maldini, Moore, Beckenbauer, Zidane, Cruyff, Roberto Carlos and Puskas, but Briggsy would have punched the living daylights out of the Argie cheat.
 
Bear1951 said:
I would put at least ten above Briggs :. Ronaldo, Pele , Best, Roberto Carlos , Maldini, Moore, Beckenbauer, Zidane, Cruyff, Roberto Carlos and Puskas, but Briggsy would have punched the living daylights out of the Argie cheat.
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and probably you with that slur on his talent
 
Hastings said:
and probably you with that slur on his talent
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If he thinks he is hard enough......very few hard men footballers would have cut the mustard as rugby forwards. I know whom I would back between Roy Keane and Willie John McBride, Joey Barton versus Micky Skinner, Chopper Harris v Wade Dooley, Vinnue Jones v Joe Mahler in a bag snatching çontest, ...you get the drift. The violent conduct, so called, that footballers get sent off for is laughable.
 
:cool: Good riddance to that cheating nasty bag of shit.Hope they bury him upside down on the Falkland islands.Good riddance to the pile of crap MichaelP
 
Yes, he cheated like the majority of forwards who dive in the box or defenders who deliberately foul to break up dangerous attacks...like Peter Reid should have done.
Am sure Thierry Henri will not be castigated so much in his obituary for his Hand of Frog goal. The beauty of Diego's slight of hand was how he flicked his head with perfect timing to deceive the officials.
 
Never nice when anybody passes away but I don’t get the volume of reaction in this country.

Granted he’s a legend of the game but would Argentina be getting in a tizz about one of our legends passing away? I highly doubt it.

And of course there’s the small matter of him punching the fucking ball in the net.
 
Couldn't cheat death.
Couldn't kick the drugs snd booze but he did kick the bucket.
At last one thing we can agree on with him , touched by the hand of God..... assuming he goes upstairs.
 
no crime,she was in the exclusion zone and got what she deserved and her escort,2 type 42 destroyer pissed of and left to it TUFF
 
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