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    Maradona Dead

    Heart attack, apparently.



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    Fuck.

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    Didn't he pull through brain surgery just a couple of weeks ago? What happened?

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    Fucking hell. Credit to him for making it this long though too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    Didn't he pull through brain surgery just a couple of weeks ago? What happened?
    Cocaine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    Didn't he pull through brain surgery just a couple of weeks ago? What happened?
    He died.

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    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.

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    Get the crowdfunder going.

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    Did well to hit 60.

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    That documentary better surface again on a free platform now, I missed it first time round.

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    Peak somehowabout.

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    What the sweet fuck are you two on about?

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    Liverpool managing to be the victims of Maradona dying.

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    "He was one of us."

    No way to speak about the dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Peak somehowabout.
    This trumps it I reckon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    "He was one of us."

    No way to speak about the dead.
    Quite apt, no?

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    That’s a shame.

    Hopefully Gazza gets well beyond 60.
    I'm a twit

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    He won't.

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    Three days of national mourning? We'd better get this when Terry Butcher carks it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoonsky View Post
    I'm sure they wanted to do that ages ago but some law about naming things after living people stopped it.

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    We'll get the three days when Sir Lord Beckham goes.

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    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.
    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.

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    I suppose the lack of a top, top John Smith (seemingly in any sport other than an American wrestler) proves this.

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    Zinedine Zidane evokes some exotic majesty about it as well. Maybe this is why Giuseppe Rossi (our John Smith) never really panned out.

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    Tyson Fury.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    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?
    I've long held the opinion that I was destined never to be a top flight footballer just because my name doesn't sound good if you imagine the commentary on hypothetical me scoring a 30 yard scramer.

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    https://youtu.be/8NI5oTTW_is

    In bits here.

    SVN, get us a youtube button, will ya hun?

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Tyson Fury.
    Boxers are good for it actually. George Foreman has the nice double 'or', Lennox Lewis is superb, so is Frank Bruno. Cassius Clay... that's the best name a sportsman has ever had, and he threw it away like a twat.

    Joe Calzaghe. Top notch.

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    That's the mentality that has kept him at tinpot clubs.

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    He didn't take if off Payet for tonight's game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    That's the mentality that has kept him at tinpot clubs.
    That or the copious amounts of money he's making.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Scotland are claiming this as a victory for the SNP, and the Irish are filling their boots at the victory for the Malvines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post


    The real headline is bottom left. How do you explain that then, RL?

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    Why is the Daily Star "proud to love animals" and does that love extend to rats the size of cats?

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    The Daily Star have been MVP for a while. Brilliant front pages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Boxers are good for it actually. George Foreman has the nice double 'or', Lennox Lewis is superb, so is Frank Bruno. Cassius Clay... that's the best name a sportsman has ever had, and he threw it away like a twat.

    Joe Calzaghe. Top notch.
    I remember when some yank boxer mugged Audley Harrison off when asked about the prospect of fighting him by quipping 'I've never heard of Ordinary Harrison'

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Cassius Clay... that's the best name a sportsman has ever had
    There may be another fred in this. I'm a big fan of Winston Justice but that might just be because it sounds like it should be a Samuel L. character.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    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.
    It's hard to see what else Woolf Barnato could have done with his life outside of a war.

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    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.

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