Terry Butcher & Maradona

[Easy 10]

Easy 10, Questions, I have been pontificating that exact point for a number of years now, and you are the first 2 people I've ever known agree.

I love you both

Its not even a particularly good goal anyway. Look.

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He turns away and outpaces PETER REID (who my mum could outrun), runs for 60 yards TOTALLY unchallenged, then Butcher just runs past the front of him, Fenwick just stands there on the edge of the area and waves a leg vaguely in the cheats direction, then Shilton runs out and obligingly sits on his arse for him, then finally Butcher tackles the ball into the net.

Greatest goal my SCROTE. Its only cos the world was collectively sucking his dick all through that tournament that its remembered as a classic. Well bollocks. With "defending" like that, Joe GATTING could've scored that goal.

 

[Biscuit]

Personally I hope Butcher knocks the little **** out.

 

[alan partridge]

I think Maradona was being quite funny. Clearly just taking the piss. Butcher needs to get over it. I find it all a bit embarassing the way we still go on and on about it.

 

[GNF on Tour]

I think Maradona was being quite funny. Clearly just taking the piss. Butcher needs to get over it. I find it all a bit embarassing the way we still go on and on about it.

I think your giving Maradona to much credit, I don't think he has the brains to take the piss the way your thinking. If there is any humour involved its probably the Argies still wetting there sombreros at the fact they actually got away with it. Hand of God, for fcuks sake!!!

THE LITTLE **** HANDBALLED IT INTO THE BACK OF THE NET.

I refuse to "get over it". It was a quarter-final of the World Cup, I would have happily chopped off a bollock to have made the final.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maradona has received a warm welcome in Scotland as he prepares for his first game in charge of the national team.

:dance:

 

[Easy 10]

Quite pathetic looking at those sad jocko freaks on the news last night, a group of whom had actually gone to the bother of making their own giant flag in celebration of the hand of god goal against England. What a pity that their own team has such a MISERABLE heritage on the world stage that the only thing they have to celebrate in international terms came in a match that had nothing to do with them.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maradona ripped England apart that day. World-class performance.

Hope that Glasgow bestow Freedom Of The City on Scotland's Player Of The Year 1986

 

[Easy 10]

The scottish defence will probably bestow the freedom of the penalty area to the Argies tonight.

 

[Icy Gull]

Quite pathetic looking at those sad jocko freaks on the news last night, a group of whom had actually gone to the bother of making their own giant flag in celebration of the hand of god goal against England. What a pity that their own team has such a MISERABLE heritage on the world stage that the only thing they have to celebrate in international terms came in a match that had nothing to do with them.

I was in Paris at the start of the WC in France. A Eurostar disgorged hundreds of Bravehearts in full woad who proceeded to walk away from the station, chanting en masse "We hate England and we hate England etc". The Scots tossers were playing Brazil that day and yet they still couldn't forget about England. Absolutely pathetic and no suprise they welcome Maradona in such a way as you describe.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

It was a great goal by a footballing genius - but a flawed man. Butcher is making himself look a fool.

 

[Brovion]

I think Butcher should keep his mouth shut; if nothing else it proves it still rankles and gives the Scots extra reason to go on about it.

He should say something like "Well I was pissed off at the time but it was over twenty years ago so it's in the past. My job now is to try and make sure that Scotland put years and years and years of failure and shit performances behind them and get somewhere near QUALIFYING for a World Cup quarter final."

 

[Easy 10]

It was a great goal by a footballing genius - but a flawed man. Butcher is making himself look a fool.

I don't think so.
Butcher was denied a place in a World Cup semi final because of the actions of a cheat. Why should he clutch THAT hand, the very hand that cheated him and England, in mock friendship and respect for Maradona just because its 22 years later ? Why should he pretend ? If thats how Butcher feels, then I respect him even more for not compromising his true feelings just to join the starstruck mob up there north of the border for this fat odious mullet-chops cheating druggie.

 

[Easy 10]

I think Butcher should keep his mouth shut; if nothing else it proves it still rankles and gives the Scots extra reason to go on about it.

He should say something like "Well I was pissed off at the time but it was over twenty years ago so it's in the past. My job now is to try and make sure that Scotland put years and years and years of failure and shit performances behind them and get somewhere near QUALIFYING for a World Cup quarter final."

I'm sure Butcher would prefer to keep his mouth shut on the whole issue, but unfortunately its top of the agenda at every bloody press conference, so short of Butcher saying "I'm not discussing it" (and coming across as a sulkydraws), he's pretty much obliged to wade through all this junk till they get round to discussing something worthwhile.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

What Brovion said. Now is about the game not what happened a lifetime ago. Does he really look a man of principle - or someone a bit twisted by an injustice.

And it is the rank hypocrisy of it all. If Waddle had punched the ball in the net - would Butcher have run up to the ref demanding the "goal" to be disallowed - you decide.

 

[MattBackHome]

I don't think so.
Butcher was denied a place in a World Cup semi final because of the actions of a cheat. Why should he clutch THAT hand, the very hand that cheated him and England, in mock friendship and respect for Maradona just because its 22 years later ? Why should he pretend ? If thats how Butcher feels, then I respect him even more for not compromising his true feelings just to join the starstruck mob up there north of the border for this fat odious mullet-chops cheating druggie.

It's not that he should pretend - it's simply that he should get over it. It was a long time ago, the world has moved on and he looks petulant.

 

[Brovion]

I'm sure Butcher would prefer to keep his mouth shut on the whole issue, but unfortunately its top of the agenda at every bloody press conference, so short of Butcher saying "I'm not discussing it" (and coming across as a sulkydraws), he's pretty much obliged to wade through all this junk till they get round to discussing something worthwhile.

So why can't he say "It's a long time ago and it's all in the past now." Even the Germans say that about 1966. As DKM says if we'd scored a goal from a handball would Butcher have gone to the ref and asked for it to be disallowed? The record books show we lost and we DO look like whingeing Poms to keep going on about how unfair it was.

 

[Timbo]

Maradona ripped England apart that day. World-class performance.

Hope that Glasgow bestow Freedom Of The City on Scotland's Player Of The Year 1986

And that sums Scotland up. Revelling in a defeat for another team some 20 years ago in a QUARTER FINAL OF A WORLD CUP! Look it up if your not sure what happens at a world cup after the 1st round.


Do you really think any Englishman has ever droned on relentlessly, made silly flags and sung childish songs about Juan Arnaldo Cayasso? Do you think anyone even knows who is? Even I had to Google it!

 

[Easy 10]

So why can't he say "It's a long time ago and it's all in the past now." Even the Germans say that about 1966. As DKM says if we'd scored a goal from a handball would Butcher have gone to the ref and asked for it to be disallowed? The record books show we lost and we DO look like whingeing Poms to keep going on about how unfair it was.

There are few players around who were as proud to wear the shirt as Terry Butcher (I'd put Stuart Pearce and Bryan Robson in the same bracket). If thats how he still feels then who are we to say he should just let it go ? OK it can be interpretted as "whinging", but its not Butcher going on about it - I doubt he'd even bring the subject up if he wasn't being constantly badgered about it.

 

[Perry Milkins]

I guess it is one of those games where whoever wins it will piss us off.

 

[Questions]

I have no time for coke-heads at all..... unless they can do a decent deal on a fitted kitchen...

Dont push your luck.