Maradona RIP

Genius footballer ..... flawed genius (don't all people we class as a genius have flaws?).

No more a cheat than players feigning injury in the modern game.

Messi or Maradona .... who cares - both remarkable.

comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 10 hours, 9 minutes ago

One word .........Cheat

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I wasn't going to rise to this, but as usual Lowfeilds manages to get my nerves !!

apart from being very disrespectful towards a brilliant player who has passed away, or indeed disrespectful to another human being who lost his life.

I just hope lowfeilds doen't comment when Henry dies, or when most footballers for that matter pass away, as some form or another, a dark art has been played to gain advantage in professional sport.

lowfeilds, you should be ashamed of yourself, lowlife, would be a more fitting name

That's what he was, not ashamed at all, just because he's died changes nothing.

comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

That's what he was, not ashamed at all, just because he's died changes nothing.

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well at least you're consitant, you don't like our players either.. I assume its because they all have 'cheated' at some point in thier career.

Lowfields you are one miserable ****

I read somewhere that Maradona asked Bielsa to go to Boca to coach them but Bielsa hated the owner and siad he wouldn't even meet him for a coffee but said he would walk the earth for Maradona. Something along those lines.

I read that as well Battywack ..... damned if i can remember where now ...?!?!?!

comment by VOF - Its all about believing .... (U17124)
posted 1 minute ago
I read that as well Battywack ..... damned if i can remember where now ...?!?!?!
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found it.

https://twitter.com/TariqJabbar80/status/1331647894798143493?s=20

That's the very one ........

There's a good article on Maradona here:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/27/brave-intelligent-diego-maradona-was-a-man-who-moved-through-different-air

Reading it hasn't diminished my loathing of cheating and cheats, however.

It's one thing to say, okay, Diego Maradona was a great player but not a great human being, but its quite another to say he was such a great player that the giant flaw in his integrity as a human being doesn't therefore matter so much. My point is, surely being a great human being is a prerequisite to being a great footballer. A football player who is not a great human being - who has no integrity - can't possibly be called a "great player."

I wonder what Bielsa, who is possibly one of the greatest ever coaches, thinks about this.

I also wonder why some of you have targeted Lowfields without also targeting me. Lowfields was only agreeing with my earlier comment. Why him and not me?