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Post by dudleyhatter on Nov 26, 2020 18:16:02 GMT
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Post by gazz on Nov 26, 2020 22:46:17 GMT
That's a great piece, with the final passage being a fitting conclusion:
"Today even the ball, the most inclusive, shared of toys, feels alone, inconsolably weeping for the loss of its owner, its master. All of those who love football, real football, cry with it. And those of us who knew him will cry even more for that Diego who, in recent times, had almost disappeared beneath the weight of his legend and his life of excess."
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Post by gazz on Nov 26, 2020 22:55:34 GMT
Guardiola's comment:
"There was a banner in Argentina, one time I read years ago. It said: 'it doesn't matter what you have done with your life, Diego, it matters what you have done with our lives.' I think that expressed perfectly what this guy gave us, the amount of joy and pleasure and his commitment for world football."
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Post by gazz on Nov 27, 2020 8:23:39 GMT
Apologies for posting so many times on here, but players like Diego Maradona only come along once in a lifetime. Outrageous skills, putting the ball over the net with his backside!  I'd have paid just to watch his pre-match warm up. |
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Post by gazz on Nov 27, 2020 22:01:45 GMT
When Lineker met Maradona now on BBC2
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Nov 27, 2020 22:44:31 GMT
RIP you brilliant little f***er.
didn't like him much in '86 (although i partly blame lineker for missing the header), for not only scoring the HoG goal, but then having the chutzpah to say it was the hand of god, but have long forgiven. the two goals against england were the two sides of maradona - the pirate followed by the magician, and a magical pirate appeals to the child in me.
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