Diego Maradona

True.

 

It's cultural differences too. Maradona punches the ball into the net and is considered a hero for it in South America as it is the refs fault for not spotting it and he has won the game any way he can. In England he is called a cheating ****.

Diving is seen as an art in lots of places all round the world, gaining an advantage by any means necessary and it is the refs fault for not spotting it, not the players fault for trying it. In England if you dive you are a right ****, unless you are English of course then you have been "influenced".

 

Depends who is doing it and when imo.

Nothing worse than hearing the commentators generally tearing into certain players but, for example, in an England game an England player does the same or worse they have a little chuckle and make comments such as "play to the whistle" or "took one for the team" etc

 

I don't see Henry getting anywhere near as much stick. Didn't he do the same for France?

 

So, went to see this ****ing excellent movie today; turns out it was made by the same people who made the similarly excellent “Senna”.

Couple of observations; I’d forgotten how ****ing brutal, as well as skilful, Italian football was in the 80’s. And I hadn’t appreciated how hard it was for foreigners to adapt to that League.

I thoroughly recommend this movie to anyone who has a soul; anyone who doesn’t, will probably hate it. The scenes after Napoli won the league were out of this world. As for the man himself, his decline and fall were every bit as dramatic as his ascent to glory - which we all knew anyway, but it makes for a hell of a story.

Again, a lot of people won’t have much sympathy for his downfall. **** em, I say. He was Maradona. He was larger than life. So is football, sometimes.

 

Will definitely see this when I get the chance.

Didn't the director also make Amy? Another massively flawed genius.

 

Thierry Henry gets no mention because he played in Engalnd and scored the handball against the Irish about 9 years ago

England still crying about Maradona 33 years later

 

That was also a very good movie. And yeah, she was another character who was talented and troubled in equal measure.