balo Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 I am surprised he turned 60 , considering he started sniffing coke already back in 1986, a drug addict for 20 + years and later turned to alcohol. RIP. My first memory of him was a friendly against Norway in 86 , just 2 months before the WC. I lived in Oslo back then and remember how popular he was when he arrived. Norway won 1-0 , a shock result and we could later joke about we beat the world champions . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thorgal Posted November 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2020 (edited) One of his epic moments: Edited November 26, 2020 by Thorgal 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJAS Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 5 hours ago, CorpusChristie said: Always be remembered for being a cheat though , unsportsman like and ungentlemanly conduct and not playing to the rules 1 hour ago, fishtank said: The man is not a legend. He was a cheat and not worthy of the name legend. And a bragging cheat to boot. He forfeited any right in my book to be labelled a footballing great in the light of that particularly despicable and blatant "Hand Of God" act of deception. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BangrakBob Posted November 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2020 TV bitterness is flowing as expected. Is it the fact he had more talent in his little toe nail than you all combined.... In '87 the man single-handedly took the equivalent of a modern day relegation battling Aston Villa to the title against a star studded Man City, and he did it while every defender in the league tried to kick 10 shades of <deleted> out of him. As a true football fan you cannot deny the man was an absolute football genius. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpusChristie Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 3 hours ago, BangrakBob said: TV bitterness is flowing as expected. Is it the fact he had more talent in his little toe nail than you all combined.... In '87 the man single-handedly took the equivalent of a modern day relegation battling Aston Villa to the title against a star studded Man City, and he did it while every defender in the league tried to kick 10 shades of <deleted> out of him. As a true football fan you cannot deny the man was an absolute football genius. No one is denying he was a great football player and I accept he was a better football player than I was , I never cheated , he did . But yeah, he was a better football player than I was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 13 hours ago, jellydog said: Huge news here of course. It is hard to explain the level of his fame here. He's about as close to a living god as you could imagine, even with all his nuttiness. Of course he's been living on borrowed time for quite a while. Time for you to give up those powdery substances and return to a well run democratic country Jellybean....get your ticket to Bangkok booked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 30 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said: No one is denying he was a great football player and I accept he was a better football player than I was , I never cheated , he did . But yeah, he was a better football player than I was Sour grapes from the Englandshire lot. Brilliant player and a World Cup winner! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpusChristie Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 1 minute ago, RonniePickering22 said: Sour grapes from the Englandshire lot. Brilliant player and a World Cup winner! No denying he was a brilliant football player and a World cup winner , but he was also a cheat . I can accept losing fairly , just dont like cheats 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BangrakBob Posted November 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2020 1 minute ago, CorpusChristie said: No one is denying he was a great football player and I accept he was a better football player than I was , I never cheated , he did . But yeah, he was a better football player than I was Footballers cheat every match, every week, across the globe. How you managed to make my post about you is puzzling. ????????♂️ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted November 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2020 (edited) I see the spirit of Terry Butcher is alive and well in some of the comments that seem to reference his hand of God goal .. get over it , he followed it up with one of the greatest goals to ever grace a game of football .. The prima donna's of today's game who hit the deck like they've been shot from the stand , writhing in agony to leap from the deck like a newborn gazelle if the decision goes their way or continue writhing and shamming if it doesn't are equally worthy of the cheat tag .. Edited November 26, 2020 by Justgrazing Sp 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpusChristie Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 7 minutes ago, BangrakBob said: Footballers cheat every match, every week, across the globe. How you managed to make my post about you is puzzling. ????????♂️ Most try to play within the rules , pushing the boundaries to get the advantage . Outright cheats usually get booked / sent off . In your post , you stated he had more talent than me , and I agreed with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpusChristie Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 3 minutes ago, Justgrazing said: I see the spirit of Terry Butcher is alive and well in some of the comments that seem to reference his hand of God goal .. get over it , he followed it up with one of the greatest goals to ever grace a game of football .. The prima donna's of today's game who hit the deck like they've been shot from the stand , writhing in agony to leap from the deck like a newborn gazelle if the decision goes there way or continue writhing and shamming if it doesn't are equally worthy of the cheat tag .. Yes, those people who feign injury are also cheats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickG16 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 4 hours ago, BangrakBob said: TV bitterness is flowing as expected. Is it the fact he had more talent in his little toe nail than you all combined.... In '87 the man single-handedly took the equivalent of a modern day relegation battling Aston Villa to the title against a star studded Man City, and he did it while every defender in the league tried to kick 10 shades of <deleted> out of him. As a true football fan you cannot deny the man was an absolute football genius. Not bothered reading it but what is the general reason for the bitterness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickG16 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 I think Maradona was probably the first football player I was ever aware of, him or Bryan Robson. I heard somebody mention the sense of expectancy when he was on the ball, and this is something I definately remember. Like Bob said the treatment the defenders used to dish out to him was unbelievable if put in the context of today. Just a few months ago during lockdown I was watching some of his old games for Napoli, and it seemed like almost everything he did was sublime. I also watched a documentary on him (very good one about his time in Naples). What came across was that he was a real team guy, that just wanted to win things and celebrate with his teammates. Of course he knew how good he was, and the responsibility on him, but he also came across as very down to earth, passionate guy. RIP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 He's in the Hands of God now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 He's biggest claim to fame was his failed drug test in the 1994 world cup in USA and other failed drug test if you think how corrupt La Liga used to be maybe he would have failed them all. How many of his performances were drug induced? all of them I would say. If it was anyone else you would be shouting from the rooftops ban him for life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 5 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said: Time for you to give up those powdery substances and return to a well run democratic country Jellybean....get your ticket to Bangkok booked! I would have been there for a visit save for this <deleted> virus!! Sometime in 2021 for sure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jellydog Posted November 26, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2020 5 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said: Sour grapes from the Englandshire lot. Brilliant player and a World Cup winner! There have been plenty of alcohol and coke fired up English footballers but these sad <deleted> don't mention them. Imbeciles. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 minus 2 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 7 hours ago, CorpusChristie said: No denying he was a brilliant football player and a World cup winner , but he was also a cheat . I can accept losing fairly , just dont like cheats cheating IS a moral relatively In the 70/80's I saw PLENTY. Of players fired up by.. amphetamine? seemed to be pretty acceptable att.. lynford Christie... Gained ?? X amount of seconds on his best. Almost Overnight.. in the 80's /90's the Brazilian ronaldo bulked up so much that he was musculariy unrecognisable.. Wenger introduced sugar soaked in liquid caffeine as half time topups And today in the prem t I see trainers give players pills and sniffy things during the game in years I'm sure that'll be banned . My point is it's easy to make moral judgements in retrospect.. not so clear or easy at the time. Irrespective of his issues .. he was one of THE all times great.. and should be remembered as such..NOT for his problems.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 Bad egg Diego. ewrwrwrwra.webp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 minus 2 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 This is the ONLY time I'm gonna say this but I write songs/ poems .. it's just a diferent way of writing .. Sentences end at the end of A line and move onto the next line . Here your expecting a full stop ... I put a gap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post richard_smith237 Posted November 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2020 35 minutes ago, 3 minus 2 said: This is the ONLY time I'm gonna say this but I write songs/ poems .. it's just a diferent way of writing .. Sentences end at the end of A line and move onto the next line . Here your expecting a full stop ... I put a gap Erm... Say what now?.... are you testing the same ‘stuff’ as the subject of this thread is famous for ? Back on earth.... Regardless of his narcotic history, his [Deigo Maradona] talent is indisputable. Give me any amount of the drugs, enhancers or narcotics he took and my talent wouldn’t match that of his little toe !... Simply a footballing genius. He’s extremely unpopular in the UK firstly because he ‘cheated’ with the ‘hand of god incident’ and secondly because he made a complete mockery of our defence !!! The ‘Life is Life’ clip on the first page of this thread is how he should be remembered - it says all anyone needs to know of his genius... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 3 hours ago, jellydog said: I would have been there for a visit save for this <deleted> virus!! Sometime in 2021 for sure. We gotta sink a cold one or two next year Jellybean....I'm an old man these days....not a dangerous wild animal any more. Honest guv....! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 4 minutes ago, RonniePickering22 said: We gotta sink a cold one or two next year Jellybean....I'm an old man these days....not a dangerous wild animal any more. Honest guv....! I should be living in Thailand full time by then, so I'll see if I can pop over and give you a free plate of chips. Unless you don't like them given to you and you just like stealing mine of course ???? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 9 minutes ago, RonniePickering22 said: We gotta sink a cold one or two next year Jellybean....I'm an old man these days....not a dangerous wild animal any more. Honest guv....! Your on Smo.....Ronnie! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexRich Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 3 hours ago, ChipButty said: He's biggest claim to fame was his failed drug test in the 1994 world cup in USA and other failed drug test if you think how corrupt La Liga used to be maybe he would have failed them all. How many of his performances were drug induced? all of them I would say. If it was anyone else you would be shouting from the rooftops ban him for life I don’t think many Olympians won gold medals on cocaine? You have to be careful with the “drugs cheat” label ... surely it doesn’t apply to recreational drug users? I don’t think heroin or cocaine improved anyone’s performance, quite the opposite. Maradona was no Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson, who used performance enhancing drugs. Maradona was great despite abusing his body with recreational drugs. I can understand the bitterness of some (not all) England fans, but the simple truth is that you weren’t going to win that game even if the “hand of God” incident didn’t happen. Get over it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 19 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said: Simply a footballing genius. He’s extremely unpopular in the UK firstly because he ‘cheated’ with the ‘hand of god incident’ I think "extremely" is probably way off richard. People who I know either don't care or are not overly bothered about that incident. It's one of those things that happens and most simply remember him for his absolute mastery of the game. It's more likely to be a minority who don't like him for that specific incident. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post adammike Posted November 26, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2020 1 hour ago, mrbojangles said: I think "extremely" is probably way off richard. People who I know either don't care or are not overly bothered about that incident. It's one of those things that happens and most simply remember him for his absolute mastery of the game. It's more likely to be a minority who don't like him for that specific incident. The only guys who I know that are still bitter about the hand of God all have the English flag in a upstairs window. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 minus 2 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 9 hours ago, RickG16 said: Not bothered reading it but what is the general reason for the bitterness? Ex pats mate. especiallly UK ones in Thailand .. nothing better to do than find fault and let it fester into hate and honestly they don't even see it.. from my exp NOT the most evolved social group.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 minus 2 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 I saw him Inn in a testimonial at White Hart lane l.. cant rememberr if it was Glenn hoddles or Stevie Perry man ...even so, out of all the great players I've see, greaves law Gaza hoddle romario Ronaldinho Mathews .blah de blah. next to Besty.. who I have a long standing personal grudge against ..despite iit being a friendly for want of a better term seeing maradona Goas down as the biggest feather in my football watchin lifes hat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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