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[Football] Maradona has died
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Todd Warrior
- Sep 16, 2005
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The most curious thing..
Some people are just bitter and twisted on this thread.
The hand of God was 34 years ago. Get over it.
Name one player that never claimed a dubious handball, off side, throw in, or just fell over in the penalty area. Football is full of it.
In the dribbling clip, Maradona doesn't fall over once, despite the increasing violent attempts to tackle him and bring him down. If they had connected, most of them would broken a leg or worse.
He was the best and most gifted player of his generation, who hauled two bog-standard Argentina teams to World Cup finals almost on his own.
A genius. Flawed, but still a genius.
The hand of God was 34 years ago. Get over it.
Name one player that never claimed a dubious handball, off side, throw in, or just fell over in the penalty area. Football is full of it.
In the dribbling clip, Maradona doesn't fall over once, despite the increasing violent attempts to tackle him and bring him down. If they had connected, most of them would broken a leg or worse.
He was the best and most gifted player of his generation, who hauled two bog-standard Argentina teams to World Cup finals almost on his own.
A genius. Flawed, but still a genius.
atfc village
Well-known member
The first Southern based side to win a Scudetto,I think that was a bigger achievement than winning The World Cup.
As I said earlier in the thread, I loved Maradona and think he is the greatest ever so not trying to do down his ability, but famously that photo is a trick image. Like the photos on Bournemouth beach, the angle that was taken gives a totally incorrect view.
He wasn’t about to take on 6 Belgians, they were waiting in a wall as Maradona recieved a short free kick from Ardilles:
- Apr 5, 2014
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As I said earlier in the thread, I loved Maradona and think he is the greatest ever so not trying to do down his ability, but famously that photo is a trick image. Like the photos on Bournemouth beach, the angle that was taken gives a totally incorrect view.
He wasn’t about to take on 6 Belgians, they were waiting in a wall as Maradona recieved a short free kick from Ardilles:
It's so clear that the image is taken after a free kick given the closeness of the opposition.
indy3050
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- Jun 22, 2011
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As I said earlier in the thread, I loved Maradona and think he is the greatest ever so not trying to do down his ability, but famously that photo is a trick image. Like the photos on Bournemouth beach, the angle that was taken gives a totally incorrect view.
He wasn’t about to take on 6 Belgians, they were waiting in a wall as Maradona recieved a short free kick from Ardilles:
I know all of this, I’ve stated it in the ‘best football photo’ thread somewhere but even so, it’s lovely photograph
Absolutely, it is, real symbolism. I only found out it wasn’t as it seemed a few years ago.
He was just brilliant.
A more innocent time.
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This was an opening game from Spain 1982 but he did take on and beat a whole bunch of Belgiun defenders four years later in the semi final.
Milano
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I honestly never got the hatred for him, I remember the match well, they were better than us for 75 minutes, then Robson brought Barnes on and it almost turned the game.
The first goal for me was possibly the worst refereeing mistake in such a high profile game there’s ever been, how the **** the ref and lino missed that god only knows, unless of course they didn’t...........
Great kits and boots!
As I said earlier in the thread, I loved Maradona and think he is the greatest ever so not trying to do down his ability, but famously that photo is a trick image. Like the photos on Bournemouth beach, the angle that was taken gives a totally incorrect view.
He wasn’t about to take on 6 Belgians, they were waiting in a wall as Maradona recieved a short free kick from Ardilles:
Maybe they should look at developing some sort of video playback system to check refs decisions on important issues like goals and things??
OzMike
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Sad loss to football and he was the best natural player ever to put boots on.