Loved Messi, admired Ronaldo, respected Zidane. But, I’ll never see anyone again with as commanding a presence on a football park in my lifetime. Diego Armando Maradona was the greatest!
@@ohtito2577 Of course. CR7 was brilliant, but that was Cristiano. There was only one Ronaldo, R9, the ‘Fenómeno’. My personal favourite was Maradona, the ‘heartbeat’ of every team he played for, so dominant.
I've been at Hampden Park at the time, seen a best player of the football history about 5 meters away 😮 Couldn't get any closer as security stopped me 😢
The English players(as did other nations players) spent the game trying to snap him and take him out the game instead of tackling him cos they couldn't get near him with fair challenges. Let's not get too fucking sanctimonious about fair play here 😂
I feel like I should say something sanctimonious here. I don't think English people hate Maradona. Whatever jokes or jibes were made at him, when he died, the talk in England was all about the loss of a football genius, and any replays of the cheating twat punching the ball into the net are nearly always accompanied by the other goal he scored that game, when he took the ball 60 yards, beating 5 defenders and the goalie. Pure genius. Also, I'd just like to point out that although Geoff Hursts shot in 1966 bounced outside the goal, if you watch the replay a few dozen times whilst having a few drinks, you can clearly see the ball spinning over the goal line whilst hurtling downwards off the bar. God Bless Maradona, God Bless Kazakhstan, and God bless our queer old dean. Huzzah!
It's nice to just make stuff up without being pulled up on it isn't it. See the first ten minutes and any fouls are part of the game at the time, in fact the Argies are equally if not worse. While a number of very fair tackles are made on him. These are then not comparable to blatantly handling the ball.
I saw it live on TV. None of us understood in the moment it was not the head that sent that ball into the goal. He did outjump Shilton - look at the photo of the moment immortalized by Alejandro Ojeda Carbajal. It is clear though, that without the hand Maradona wouldn't have reached the ball. It is possible that the ref was tricked by the linesman assesment, it is also possible that he couldn't make himself call the goal off. In the end the better team won. Fairly? Nope.
I always suspected that the italian mafia, had stirred some pressure juice up to give the refereeing staff. Partly to make their starboy happy, and also cash in nicely on bets. There are more instances in the match, were ref is temporarily blind
@@shattered2137messi wouldn't have survived the rough and tumble of Diego's era. Built like a brick shithouse and gave it back . Plus what he did on the state of some of pitches he played on is staggering. Messi is simply amazing but for me Maradona is the goat. ..and I think messi would agree also .
Yes, that is right. Diego knew a lot about football but much more about social and cultural issues. He was a truly humble man, even when he touched de sky with his hand. Cheers from Buenos Aires-Argentina, and aguante Boca Juniors!!
@@12ezeesc so true about diego. delighted for argentina winning on sunday, happy for messi and the players, but more so for the fans, they in a way made the world cup, it was a great final, and the best team won. enjoy the celebrations my friend.
@@12ezeesc I'd heard that he would say that about us too but never knew for certain if it was true or not so I'm delighted you've confirmed it! I don't know if you guys truly know just how much we adored him in Scotland. I was devastated when he died. So happy you won the World Cup there. Diego would've had the biggest smile in heaven 🏴❤🇦🇷🏆🙏👏👏👏👏 🏴💩
More people pretending Messi doesn't even deserve a mention. Messi the goat and u know it, the speed and athleticism of the game are more intense now and Messi is insane and still makes it look easy at his age
I'm English and have no issue with Maradona or the hand of God goal. These things happen in football. And if we are being honest, there were probably 3 straight red card fouls against him by England players in that game before he even scored with his hand, or his second goal which was a masterpiece.
I just love football. Cruyff, Beckembauer, Pelé, Maradona, Charlton, all the Ronaldos, Di Stéfano, Zidane, Eusebio, Gascoigne, Garrincha, Best, Paolo Rossi. The ones with more carisma... George Best, Maradona, Gascoigne, Cantona. I loves all of them. Regards from Argentine friends.
Brilliant answer. To a redundant question. A better question for Mr. Maradona would have been to ask him how he, being only 5ft nothing, managed to outjump the England goalkeeper, Peter Shilton who was 6ft, 2" tall - in order to score the goal in the first place. Maybe Maradona did have the hand of God that day, maybe God lifted him up or maybe God put weights into Shilton's boots !
I believe he went on to say something to the effect of 'The English may hate me but the Scots love me'. He's still the best I've seen, a genius on the park both on the ball and off it.
Forest fan here...think Shilton has been let off his whole life with the Hand Of God thing...6ft and he's jumping with his outstretched arm...and STILL Diego beats him to it...
Do you even know Diego's childhood?, is not fair to compair his personalitie with Messi or a lot more. Maradona grew up in a place without electricity, water, no nice bathroom only letrines outside his small house, he barely had food and clothes and he should MANTAINED his family, with BARELY 16 years old
Nobody outside of Argentina knew about Maradona when that war took place. The hand of god goal happened years after the war - maybe it was his revenge for the war.
English and Maradona's haters: CHEATER! AT LEAST DIEGO'S GOAL WENT IN SO GET OVER IT ALREADY!! His only mistake is that the country was Federal Germany, not Spain
In no way are the two things comparable. Deliberately punching the ball into the goal is the deliberate decision of the player to cheat. Being awarded a goal that didn't quite cross the line is not the fault of the player, who couldn't see if it had gone over or not. Only in one of the two situations is the player a deliberate cheat.
@@narcyznarcyz-uv4td No, mate; I meant the friendly between Argentina and Scotland ⚽ I've been to the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City where that game was played 🇲🇽
Not Maradona's fault. Players are supposed to play the game. The football power-that-be employed referees and linesmen to make sure they abided by the rules of the game (rules that are broken many times in every game). In this case, the officials were the ones at fault.
Take Diego's handball goal away and the match is drawn. Disallow the goal where the ball doesn't cross the line against Germany and I think that makes the score 3-2 to England, or maybe mathematics work differently when you have half a kilo of Colombian marching powder up your hooter.
No mate. Both the 86' hand of God as well as the non-goal of 66' were not the last goals of their games. Disallowing Diego's first goal would surely change the rest of the game and arguably that second goal would not have come. The point being that the match was still open. In 66 we have the exact same situation. The controversial goal is England's third goal, not the fourth. In both games if the referees would have made correct decisions both games would have continued as ties. We can only imagine how they would turned out-
@@andredemony Agreed. It is only supposition when it comes to predicting the actual outcome of the matches had the correct decisions been made. My point is that England won the match against Germany by two goals, not one, and so the incorrect decision was not decisive in contrast to Diego's handball goal.
@andredemony Argentina vs England in WC86 was a 2-1 scoreline. So, that's a win by a 1 goal margin. England vs Germany in WC66 was a 4-2 scoreline. So, that's a win by a 2 goal margin.
So, if team A beats team B 5:0 and team C beats team B by 3:0, do A and C need to play each other, or it’s simply 2:0 for A? Futbol is not mathematics, mate.
There is an equivalence. The ball didnt cross the line yet england were beneficiaries of poor refereeing. Same as the hand of God. This happened when both won a World Cup. But the English love to be victims
@@beorlingo It doesn't really tell you the full story about him. Nobody ever thought he was a saint or a philosopher. So, the fact that he doesn't display those qualities isn't particularly unexpected. People loved him because he was a footballing genius, and a fantastic entertainer, not because of his morality or his logic.
@@sebfox2194 so you're saying it takes a saint not to cheat, and a philosopher to understand what's not cheating. Man, you sure don't think much of mankind. I reckon we have no disagreement after all. Just different expectations. To me, if a great artist is a scumbag, I see him mostly a scumbag. Could still appreciate the artistry, which however doesn't earn him respect in the slightest. The way I don't respect a murderer even if he's a great trumpet player.
Cómo latinoamericano, siento vergüenza que ese triste y drogo personaje llamado Maradona sea uno de los más grandes ídolos de Latinoamérica. Lo peor es que sólo corría tras una pelota. Nada más que eso. Que poca cosa se necesita para ser ídolo.
Yeah the ball didn't cross the line, but we didn't cheat and would've won anyway. Maradona was a great player, but a cheat. That said, if Shilton had managed to get more than an inch off the ground and outjump the little bastard no one would be talking about this.
The answer of someone who believes himself far brighter than he actually is. Not even going to bother explaining the differences between the two incidents, the problem is nobody had the bottle to call him out on this crap.
His hatred of England comes from the Falklands. He should have been reminded the United Kingdom kicked their Argie arses off the island and that included Scots.
A childish response from a man-child. Essentially what his argument is as follows: Two wrongs make a right and it doesn't matter if you cheat, so long as you win at the end. I am no fan of his eventhough I'll acknowledge his greatness on the field (I know you guys call it "the Pitch", but in the U.S. we call the grass you play sports on, "a field".), he led a pathetic life outside of it and ultimately paid the price for his excesses. Just imagine the heights he would have achieved in soccer (football) if he had had the discipline of Pele or Messi off the field (Pitch for all you football snobs)? A pity that such God given talented was bestowed on such a petty person like Maradona.
Butcher didn't have the friends and admirers Maradona did. The mafia in Napels adored him, and he once visited Pablo Escobar in his luxury cartel "prison". Not that he needed them. He shot journalists outside his home with an air rifle once.
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Loved Messi, admired Ronaldo, respected Zidane. But, I’ll never see anyone again with as commanding a presence on a football park in my lifetime. Diego Armando Maradona was the greatest!
You meant Ronaldo the Phenomenon,!
@@ohtito2577 Of course. CR7 was brilliant, but that was Cristiano. There was only one Ronaldo, R9, the ‘Fenómeno’. My personal favourite was Maradona, the ‘heartbeat’ of every team he played for, so dominant.
Maradona had the hand of god though messi has his feet
LOL. Not fit to clean George Best's boots.
And there was that little black fella, I forget his name peter or something like that
As the "Scottish commentator" said when Maradona scored v ENG; "His hand was placed in a natural position, on top of his head".
Aye of course it was 🏴
Based Scottish
Love those commentaries
🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is the greatest footballer of all time.His mastery of a football has not been seen before or since . Love from Scotland
Messi , Pele then Best ....
Jinky.....
naw he wisnae... Pele wiz followed very closely by Di Stefano the n Wee Jinky...end of. Maradona wiz good, but no as good as them 3
@@georgemcdermott9657 Ha ha, aye right enough , wee Jinky was better than Maradona ? . Bit early to be on the bevvy pal
Ronaldinho was out of this world
yep in 1966 that football never cross the line. You stole that world cup.
Three two then? 😂😂😂😂
@@numbnutz7832 probably not because germany wouldn't have been going all out in attack and left open for the break.
@@MegaMarco313 mbappe the only man to score a hatrick in a World Cup final then?
I've been at Hampden Park at the time, seen a best player of the football history about 5 meters away 😮
Couldn't get any closer as security stopped me 😢
grow up
@MartinWaghorn568 away an take your face for a sh7t
😂 j’ai ri , merci
The English players(as did other nations players) spent the game trying to snap him and take him out the game instead of tackling him cos they couldn't get near him with fair challenges. Let's not get too fucking sanctimonious about fair play here 😂
asking the english not to be sanctimonious is like asking the earth not to spin
100% 😊
I feel like I should say something sanctimonious here.
I don't think English people hate Maradona. Whatever jokes or jibes were made at him, when he died, the talk in England was all about the loss of a football genius, and any replays of the cheating twat punching the ball into the net are nearly always accompanied by the other goal he scored that game, when he took the ball 60 yards, beating 5 defenders and the goalie. Pure genius.
Also, I'd just like to point out that although Geoff Hursts shot in 1966 bounced outside the goal, if you watch the replay a few dozen times whilst having a few drinks, you can clearly see the ball spinning over the goal line whilst hurtling downwards off the bar.
God Bless Maradona, God Bless Kazakhstan, and God bless our queer old dean.
Huzzah!
It's nice to just make stuff up without being pulled up on it isn't it. See the first ten minutes and any fouls are part of the game at the time, in fact the Argies are equally if not worse. While a number of very fair tackles are made on him. These are then not comparable to blatantly handling the ball.
The English are living in your head rent free, this guy RARELY played English teams
Diego,mano de dios!!!!Arm of justice!!!!
Thd ref was to blame, shocking decision, the whole crowd knew. He outjumped the keeper. He was 5 foot 4.
I saw it live on TV. None of us understood in the moment it was not the head that sent that ball into the goal. He did outjump Shilton - look at the photo of the moment immortalized by Alejandro Ojeda Carbajal. It is clear though, that without the hand Maradona wouldn't have reached the ball. It is possible that the ref was tricked by the linesman assesment, it is also possible that he couldn't make himself call the goal off. In the end the better team won. Fairly? Nope.
I always suspected that the italian mafia, had stirred some pressure juice up to give the refereeing staff.
Partly to make their starboy happy, and also cash in nicely on bets.
There are more instances in the match, were ref is temporarily blind
But Maradona is right 1966 was robbed too
Captain hindsight wins everytime
Boo hoo…..
#Maradona Patrimonio de la Humanidad
Incredible player. All is forgiven????? Don't know about that.
@@eddiekinghamthe best ever .. shitty human being though
Greatest footballer that is ever played the game rest in peace Diego
Messi suprassed him in evey single way... Still legend.
@@shattered2137messi wouldn't have survived the rough and tumble of Diego's era. Built like a brick shithouse and gave it back . Plus what he did on the state of some of pitches he played on is staggering. Messi is simply amazing but for me Maradona is the goat. ..and I think messi would agree also .
1 of the elite best
druggi c---t
Messi won the World Cup fair and square, this guy didn't
Lets talk about his other goal in that game!!!!!!! WOW
Linekar's glancing header you mean?
@@stephenhill545 of course
And look at the ball bobbling about when he's going past Hodge Reid and Co!, not carpets like today.
We'll gloss over Maradona left the engerlish and the defence on their arses in the second goal.
Que genio!
The real crime against football would have been a team containing Terry butcher beating a team that had Maradona
But they had to cheat to win so …
least eng didnt cheat you w----r
@@MarkSmith-er7fe apart from your goal against Germany that was not over the line 🤡
Spot on mate. England were pish, as they always are at these tournaments. They could only rely on blatant cheating for them to win the World Cup.
Was Passarella still playing? He was an animal.
Scotlands adopted son.the legend that was Diego " England heart breaker" Maradona.
Scotland's greatest success is England not having the best day
You have no hero's of your own.😂
@@tom4381 The Scots used to have many top-class ballers though.
@@tom4381you have plenty over hyped as usual engerlish arrogance in abundance.
@jimwatson3382 Maybe they do, but the fact that you lot fawn over Maradona and obsess over England is pathetic and needy.
It is true that when getting asked about the hand of god he said the English hate me but lest the Scot’s love me and that’s all it matters🤣?
Yes, that is right. Diego knew a lot about football but much more about social and cultural issues. He was a truly humble man, even when he touched de sky with his hand.
Cheers from Buenos Aires-Argentina, and aguante Boca Juniors!!
@@12ezeesc us Scot’s love the argies
@@12ezeesc so true about diego. delighted for argentina winning on sunday, happy for messi and the players, but more so for the fans, they in a way made the world cup, it was a great final, and the best team won. enjoy the celebrations my friend.
@@12ezeesc I'd heard that he would say that about us too but never knew for certain if it was true or not so I'm delighted you've confirmed it! I don't know if you guys truly know just how much we adored him in Scotland. I was devastated when he died. So happy you won the World Cup there. Diego would've had the biggest smile in heaven 🏴❤🇦🇷🏆🙏👏👏👏👏 🏴💩
I’m English , I don’t hate him. Shiltons fault that goal. Diego, best player ever
Oh Diego, simply the greatest in and out of the pitch!
Brilliant- love Maradona ❤️
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Legend.
Im 58 and he's the best ive seen, Pele was a touch early for me to appreciate but my Dad was a De Stefano man so its all opinions.
More people pretending Messi doesn't even deserve a mention. Messi the goat and u know it, the speed and athleticism of the game are more intense now and Messi is insane and still makes it look easy at his age
He doesn't seem to understand the ball and the line question, he only understood the lines that went up his nose
As an englishman...... scottish people would LOVE that answer by him. im suprised they didnt clap.
Best ever
I'm English and have no issue with Maradona or the hand of God goal. These things happen in football. And if we are being honest, there were probably 3 straight red card fouls against him by England players in that game before he even scored with his hand, or his second goal which was a masterpiece.
Te amo Dieguito
Not Maradona’s fault Shilts was too slow off his line and the ref/linesman were useless.
Ref was a Tunisian
Love from Casablanca Morocco.
I had the privilege to meet Diego Maradona and shock his hand ❤
Or bent
Same as Andy Bhremer in 90, Chris Woods would have saved both goals.
Good one Diego, the old elephant in the room. England wouldn’t have anything to crow about bringing “home” if it were for competent refereeing.
He was asked about his cheating though.....whether England's goal should have been allowed is completely irrelevant
They shouldn't even be in the final.
Portugal was stolen even before, during and after the game... That world cup was won by politicians.
Cracking answer that.
Shut up, the God of Napoli is speaking.
I just love football. Cruyff, Beckembauer, Pelé, Maradona, Charlton, all the Ronaldos, Di Stéfano, Zidane, Eusebio, Gascoigne, Garrincha, Best, Paolo Rossi. The ones with more carisma... George Best, Maradona, Gascoigne, Cantona. I loves all of them. Regards from Argentine friends.
Hes Class
"Así" (so) 😂 Diego, we miss you! ❤ 🇦🇷
Grande Diego 👏👏👏
Shouldn't it be dead Diego or just fatty
😂 never seen that before 👋
I was the best before i am the best now and I'll be the best forever ✊⚽
Vai Diego ❤
Brilliant answer. To a redundant question.
A better question for Mr. Maradona would have been to ask him how he, being only 5ft nothing, managed to outjump the England goalkeeper, Peter Shilton who was 6ft, 2" tall - in order to score the goal in the first place.
Maybe Maradona did have the hand of God that day, maybe God lifted him up or maybe God put weights into Shilton's boots !
The greatest
I believe he went on to say something to the effect of 'The English may hate me but the Scots love me'. He's still the best I've seen, a genius on the park both on the ball and off it.
Meeen I love D.A.M 's response 😃😃
So glad it was to England, it couldn't happen to a better country.😅😂
and he s right! actually
His expressions were priceless, haha. Hes right tho.
The man knew his Audience 😂
Great player, great cheat!
Is this after he triumphed over Sean Locke for rear of the Year 🤔🤣🤣
Forest fan here...think Shilton has been let off his whole life with the Hand Of God thing...6ft and he's jumping with his outstretched arm...and STILL Diego beats him to it...
He made a few punters lose hand over fist.
He was surely talented but not educated enough
Do you even know Diego's childhood?, is not fair to compair his personalitie with Messi or a lot more.
Maradona grew up in a place without electricity, water, no nice bathroom only letrines outside his small house, he barely had food and clothes and he should MANTAINED his family, with BARELY 16 years old
legend!
Literally Based
Al final le dijo...un pedazo así tenés adentro.
Hes the only reason we remembered to defend the Falklands.
Nobody outside of Argentina knew about Maradona when that war took place. The hand of god goal happened years after the war - maybe it was his revenge for the war.
Much as I love Diego Armando, it isn't a valid comparison.
Hurst wasn't cheating when he scored. Diego on the other hand........
That wasn't a Scottish accent.
Non sequitur. A poor decision from a linesman isn't the equivalent of direct cheating by a player.
English and Maradona's haters: CHEATER!
AT LEAST DIEGO'S GOAL WENT IN SO GET OVER IT ALREADY!!
His only mistake is that the country was Federal Germany, not Spain
A true hero of the Scottish 👍
LOL
Who’s Butcher?
😂
Mcmaradona
In no way are the two things comparable. Deliberately punching the ball into the goal is the deliberate decision of the player to cheat. Being awarded a goal that didn't quite cross the line is not the fault of the player, who couldn't see if it had gone over or not. Only in one of the two situations is the player a deliberate cheat.
My thoughts exactly!!
The greatest answer to any English. Love you Diego. The GOAT.
English fans keep crying
not really
@@billymurray1687 nah, just holding the grudge
Fuck england, aguante Diego!
@@billymurray1687 Still going on about 1966! 🤣
@@johnmc3862 I'm not arsed about England tbh
If I remember correctly, Argentina scored almost immediately and the game ended 1-0 ⚽
2:1.. 2 goal was Maradona hand with 10 min to end as far as I remember
@@narcyznarcyz-uv4td No, mate; I meant the friendly between Argentina and Scotland ⚽
I've been to the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City where that game was played 🇲🇽
@Brown87 ok Super .. I was a big fan of Hugo Sanchez even I played as a goalkeeper .. I named my dog Hogo after him... 😆 lol.. all the 👌
@@narcyznarcyz-uv4td That pink strip he used to wear with the dots on it 🫣
Ingleses LTA
Ask any Englishman...
" Would you rather win the lslas Malvinas War?... or a World Cup? "
I'm 99% sure of that answer!!!
The Falklands... they're called the Falklands 🇫🇰
@@bensims7501 😁😁😁...l was wondering how soon someone would say that!... thank you!... humans never cease to enlighten me!
@@bensims7501they were given their real name 🇦🇷 Islas Malvinas 🇦🇷
No bent refs there
The answer would be the Islas what? Always proud to fight fascism anywhere on the world.
does the he think Scotland and England are the same?
You mean the guy who wrote the title?
Can Maradona fans not admit one thing? lol
Sounded like a member of the English media to me?
Not Maradona's fault. Players are supposed to play the game. The football power-that-be employed referees and linesmen to make sure they abided by the rules of the game (rules that are broken many times in every game). In this case, the officials were the ones at fault.
Not his fault he cheated? You can't actually be serious??
Maradona is a legend. My favourite footballer of all time but his logic is wrong here. It’s about the intent.
I think he intended to win the match just like the English when the ball didnt cross the line. No?
One of the greats alongside Pele, Bobby Charlton, Messi, Vinnie Jones
🤣🤣🤣
VJ are you joking?
@@petervarone8462 Not at all. Had his career not been cut short, Wales were on course to win the Champions League and the World Cup.
Hes one of those rare footballers that had a personality
Take Diego's handball goal away and the match is drawn. Disallow the goal where the ball doesn't cross the line against Germany and I think that makes the score 3-2 to England, or maybe mathematics work differently when you have half a kilo of Colombian marching powder up your hooter.
No mate. Both the 86' hand of God as well as the non-goal of 66' were not the last goals of their games. Disallowing Diego's first goal would surely change the rest of the game and arguably that second goal would not have come. The point being that the match was still open. In 66 we have the exact same situation. The controversial goal is England's third goal, not the fourth. In both games if the referees would have made correct decisions both games would have continued as ties. We can only imagine how they would turned out-
@@andredemony Agreed. It is only supposition when it comes to predicting the actual outcome of the matches had the correct decisions been made. My point is that England won the match against Germany by two goals, not one, and so the incorrect decision was not decisive in contrast to Diego's handball goal.
@@simonwilcox4437 Ok... Just to make sure, you are aware that in 86 Argentina also won the game by two goals, right...?
@andredemony Argentina vs England in WC86 was a 2-1 scoreline. So, that's a win by a 1 goal margin. England vs Germany in WC66 was a 4-2 scoreline. So, that's a win by a 2 goal margin.
So, if team A beats team B 5:0 and team C beats team B by 3:0, do A and C need to play each other, or it’s simply 2:0 for A? Futbol is not mathematics, mate.
Remember at half time back in the studio in London how Bob Wilson turned on Peter Shilton : " If Shilton has a weakness , it's coming off his line " .
Not quite the same no England player cheated for the goal that was a linesmans call so another linesmans mistake gave him a blatent handball goal
England didnt win the world cup with a "goal" not over the line. Thre scored another to win 4 -2 . Maradonna was a cheat . Not England.
Every single brittish: CHEATER!
Maradona commited a mistake, the country was germany AND AT LEAST DIEGO'S GOAL WENT IN!
GET OVER IT!!
False equivalence / deflecting / flawed logic, but I like him none the less.
It really tells the story about him. And how people still love him tells the story about ordinary people.
There is an equivalence. The ball didnt cross the line yet england were beneficiaries of poor refereeing. Same as the hand of God. This happened when both won a World Cup. But the English love to be victims
@@neemo23571 dude, with England it was not intentional cheating. Maradona had neither wits nor ethics.
@@beorlingo It doesn't really tell you the full story about him. Nobody ever thought he was a saint or a philosopher. So, the fact that he doesn't display those qualities isn't particularly unexpected. People loved him because he was a footballing genius, and a fantastic entertainer, not because of his morality or his logic.
@@sebfox2194 so you're saying it takes a saint not to cheat, and a philosopher to understand what's not cheating.
Man, you sure don't think much of mankind. I reckon we have no disagreement after all. Just different expectations.
To me, if a great artist is a scumbag, I see him mostly a scumbag. Could still appreciate the artistry, which however doesn't earn him respect in the slightest. The way I don't respect a murderer even if he's a great trumpet player.
What's all this lol business? Are people unable to write simple English?
Lol!
Oh another English person wanting to control everything what a big surprise...lol
Cómo latinoamericano, siento vergüenza que ese triste y drogo personaje llamado Maradona sea uno de los más grandes ídolos de Latinoamérica.
Lo peor es que sólo corría tras una pelota. Nada más que eso.
Que poca cosa se necesita para ser ídolo.
fua que pedazo!
edit: me olvide de poner no homo.
Sad little cheat
She does not sound Scottish? Also that is just not a question any Scot would feel the need to ask. Great reply though :)
That's funny 👍🏼 but we all know there's a big difference between the two moments.
Not really
@@petervarone8462 🤥
fourth best oat
Referees mistake versus deliberate cheating. No, you were a great player but you cheated.
England used the "hand of Dog" against Barnes, Diego used "hand of God" against them, both hands eliminated England..so no hard feelings,
Greatest sportsman of all time bar none
Yeah the ball didn't cross the line, but we didn't cheat and would've won anyway. Maradona was a great player, but a cheat. That said, if Shilton had managed to get more than an inch off the ground and outjump the little bastard no one would be talking about this.
Nice try, but you still cheated and therefore you shall be judged by some
He was loved by all true Scotsmen .
The answer of someone who believes himself far brighter than he actually is. Not even going to bother explaining the differences between the two incidents, the problem is nobody had the bottle to call him out on this crap.
Awwww another whinging pom at least you guys are good at that
The greatest player? Debatable. The greatest cheat? Hmm...
His hatred of England comes from the Falklands. He should have been reminded the United Kingdom kicked their Argie arses off the island and that included Scots.
Don't be ridiculous. There are no Scots in the British army
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...ask any Brit... win the Falklands war... or win a World Cup... guarantee... 99% would say WIN A WORLD CUP!!!
what a boring and imperialistic piece of shit you came to be
Scots were only went to the Falklands to shag sheep like the Welsh..
A childish response from a man-child.
Essentially what his argument is as follows:
Two wrongs make a right and it doesn't matter if you cheat, so long as you win at the end.
I am no fan of his eventhough I'll acknowledge his greatness on the field (I know you guys call it "the Pitch", but in the U.S. we call the grass you play sports on, "a field".), he led a pathetic life outside of it and ultimately paid the price for his excesses.
Just imagine the heights he would have achieved in soccer (football) if he had had the discipline of Pele or Messi off the field (Pitch for all you football snobs)?
A pity that such God given talented was bestowed on such a petty person like Maradona.
Englands goal against Germany was not cheating, just luck. Diegos hand of god was cheating. You cant compare. However he was simply incredible.
Cheat, nothing more, nothing less.
Wise move by Maradona not to seek out Butcher , Butcher would probably eaten him for breakfast
Butcher didn't have the friends and admirers Maradona did. The mafia in Napels adored him, and he once visited Pablo Escobar in his luxury cartel "prison".
Not that he needed them. He shot journalists outside his home with an air rifle once.
Not gonna happen since Maradona would have already eaten him for the previous night's dinner.
Nice joke asshole MARADONA CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
But..who? That guy is not even a footnote on Maradona's Biopic.