Off Topic Maradona - Moved from the RIP thread

Worked with a Sheff Utd fan who couldn't get over the fact that when they signed Alex Sabella they could have had a 17 year old Maradona for £150,000 but passed on it. Though it came out later that it was because the security forces wanted a kickback and they were frightened of the comebacks if they had paid it.
Amazingly when they went to finalise the signing of Sabella they had first options on Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa. Keith Burkinshaw was on the plane and .United manager .Harry Hallam told him he had decided against signing them as he was worried how so many South. Americans would fit into one team in England. Burkinshaw wasn't going to le a chance like that go begging...

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...Maradona-celebrated-one-time-greats-game.html

Some great detail from Jeff Powell

 

Of course he's remembered for the handball,always will be and that's fair comment.But do you seriously believe that was his only claim to fame? In my opinion he was one of the finest footballers ever to Grace the game alongside players like Pele,Cruyff,Best,Messi...

Would you be saying Pele would not be deserved of recognition in similar circumstance? After all he wasn't English and never played for an English Club.

 

Why choose him? He's inspired and thrilled millions of players and supporters world-wide over a number of years. Widely thought to be the best there's ever been (subjective obvs). Why on earth should his passing not be acknowledged by the world-wide football community? It's about being respectful, not mealy-mouthed about the fact he's not English (oooh, criminal offence) and that he scored a dodgy goal against us.

 

Well said

 

After the reaction to my last post I had better keep my head down!

 

It only says they were fired, but these are three of the workers.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/diego-maradona-funeral-football-b1762922.html


Claudio Fernández, pictured with another worker, gave a thumbs up gesture and smiled as he posed for a photograph next to Maradona’s funeral casket. Fernández’s 18-year-old son also appears in the same image.

"Diego Molina is the scoundrel who took a photo next to Diego Maradona's coffin.

they are an ambulance company or for transferring units. We sometimes outsource that service," said Matías Picón, one of co-owners of the funeral home.

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/arg...otos-with-maradonas-dead-body-apologise.phtml

 

I also recieved a video to go along with the above post which shows the bald headed guy after his murder but I think it's too brutal to post here.

 

BBC 2 now Official FIFA WC1986 film

Michael Caine voiceover, 80s synth soundtrack

 

Watched something on maradonna last night, in his first season in Italy he was hacked down near enough every time he got the ball. Tough little cookie, can you imagine players of his elk being chopped down these days, they’d cry like little girls. The way he’d almost put defenders on their arse was just wonderful. One of a kind never to be reproduced!!!

 

It was in a martin Samuel article
In the 82 World Cup gentile fouled him 28 times before being booked!! Maradona complained to the ref and was booked!!

 

To be fair, Maradona probably called him a mean word...