Have I told anyone I actually saw him play? In the flesh, in a competitive match? Must have bored you all with this tale before, surely!
No, well you might have done, but I never saw it. I was wondering yesterday if any of you Prem lads had seen him play.
Only played one actual match over here. It was against us (for Barcelona) in the 1984 CWC quarter final. Best match I've ever been to, to be absolutely honest. We were 2 nil down from first leg and beat them 3-0 at home. Maradona didn't do much that night, fairly sure he was coming back from injury (giving him the benefit of the doubt) but he was outclassed and over shadowed by Bryan Robson on the night. He did wave at the crowd though when we were singing the usual Maradona (is a ****er, is a ****er) song.
Gazza on a Zoom chat with Shilton live on Good Morning Britain. “I know a lot of people go on about the Hand of God - it made Peter Shilton, anyway. Shilts, it made you, that goal.
By the way, couple of weeks later we played the semi final against Juventus. In that team were Paulo Rossi, Dino Zoff, Michel Platini, Boniek, Claudio Gentile and Marco Tardelli for **** sake. Good times!
Biggest game I got to see that year (1984) was being knocked out by the eventual FA Cup winners Everton at our place. Never seen any game (attended) on the scale of prominence that you have, but good memories nontheless. Strangely enough I was thinking about Dino Zoff the other day when Cleamence died.
I loved those days, the years we were under Atkinson. We had a superb first eleven, it was just that one or two, Robson especially but also Moses, McGrath and Whiteside,were a bit injury prone and they couldn't be adequately replaced. It won two FA cups. That's it. Should have won at least one league but didn't, Liverpool and Everton were clearing up in those days. I've still got more affinity for that team than for any of the absolute impostors that currently turn out for us though.
