Heart attack, apparently.
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Heart attack, apparently.
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Last edited by John Arne; 25-11-2020 at 04:31 PM.
Fuck.
Didn't he pull through brain surgery just a couple of weeks ago? What happened?
Fucking hell. Credit to him for making it this long though too
God, the twitter takes are already rolling in.
I only knew him as a juiced up old maniac, but his middle finger moment in that capacity in the game vs Nigeria was legendary.
Get the crowdfunder going.
Did well to hit 60.
That documentary better surface again on a free platform now, I missed it first time round.
Peak somehowabout.
What the sweet fuck are you two on about?
Liverpool managing to be the victims of Maradona dying.
"He was one of us."
No way to speak about the dead.
That’s a shame.
Hopefully Gazza gets well beyond 60.
I'm a twit
He won't.
https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/naples-m...aradona-257167
That's classic.
Three days of national mourning? We'd better get this when Terry Butcher carks it.
We'll get the three days when Sir Lord Beckham goes.
Here's something I've always thought and might be a load of shit but I'm going to say it anyway. 'Diego Maradona'. It's an epic name, isn't it? Conveys a proper sense of theatre and ups and downs. If he was called Jorge Valdano or Hugo Sanchez, would he have been the same player or person?
Diego Armando Maradona for the full Brian Charles Lara effect as well.
The clip doing the rounds of just his highlights from the ‘86 World Cup is insane. May not be the greatest ever when is all said and done but surely no one will ever reach those levels of him in 1986/87 with Argentina and then Napoli.
I've thought that. I'm sure it's because you associate the name with the person, but Franz Beckenbauer is so tremendously German that it becomes a very distinct name. Even a relatively common name like George Best works because it was him with it.
So who is the best player with the most generic name? There must be as many Gerhard Mullers in Germany as Robert Charltons here.
Brian Charles Lara is actually another great example of the same thing. He's not getting those runs as Keith Arthurton.
Should probably be taken into account when bringing young players through.
Even then, Gerd Müller (which is proper John Smith stuff as far as I know) evokes the simplicity and single-mindedness of his game. 'Lionel Messi' is poetic. 'Cristiano Ronaldo' works well: you've seen Ronaldo? Well I'm Cristiano Ronaldo. Michel Platini, poetic. Pele, just beautiful (as with all the old Brazilian names, whereas the post-2000 ones are all shite, except 'Neymar', which is good).
I guess Stanley Matthews is pretty generic.
I suppose the lack of a top, top John Smith (seemingly in any sport other than an American wrestler) proves this.
Zinedine Zidane evokes some exotic majesty about it as well. Maybe this is why Giuseppe Rossi (our John Smith) never really panned out.
Tyson Fury.
https://youtu.be/8NI5oTTW_is
In bits here.
SVN, get us a youtube button, will ya hun?
Chael Sonnen's biggest quip against Jon Jones (at the time they were fighting eachother, as nowadays he's got a lot more to say thanks to Jonny Bones being a bad person) was that his name was rubbish.
I'm a twit
That's the mentality that has kept him at tinpot clubs.
He didn't take if off Payet for tonight's game.
I hope he's off the booze by now at least, or perhaps limiting himself to a quick few snifters by the fireside while he regales his wife with tales of the British Virgin Islands.
All the left wing twitter journos are crying about this coverage, but they obviously don't realise that the cultural penetration Maradona had in this country was the Hand of God goal and that alone. That passes the 'my Mum' test, the second goal doesn't. Sorry but that's how these things work.
Scotland are claiming this as a victory for the SNP, and the Irish are filling their boots at the victory for the Malvines.
"a thief who robs a thief, deserves a 100 years of pardon."
Why is the Daily Star "proud to love animals" and does that love extend to rats the size of cats?
The Daily Star have been MVP for a while. Brilliant front pages.
Motorsport's got some great ones. Count Wolfgang von Trips, Jean-Denis Delatraz, Roland Ratzenberger, Andrea Dovizioso, Giacomo Agostini, Stirling Moss, Felipe Massa, Felipe Nasr, Fabio Quartararo, etc.
I saw they arrested a mobster the other day called Anthony Gifoli aka Tony Meatballs. How are you expected to break out of the cycle when you’ve been Tony Meatballs since puberty.