He can go legitimate as a Subway mascot.
He can go legitimate as a Subway mascot.
He’s a mobster not a paedophile.
Depends who's balls he's meeting.
http://news.sky.com/story/maradona-d...ntina-12143486
It's what he would have wanted.
I wasn't expecting that.
They all somehow look like shit lookalikes of themselves.
Supposedly the geniuses that took selfies with his corpse have been offed by Boca Ultras.
I watched some of that Maradona thing last night, thought it was pretty good. The best bit of his career was before I was really aware of football so it was interesting to see all that stuff. I know this is always the case looking back at things but it all had an otherworldly feel to it that you just couldn't imagine happening anymore. Biggest shock of it all was finding out Ciro Ferrara is a Neoploitan and did 10 years at Napoli alongside Maradona. I only ever knew him as a Juve stalwart.
That film is a copy-paste of the same director's Senna film, but about football/Argentina instead of racing/Brazil, and both are too fanboyish by half for my tastes. Just a big old abuse of that late 80s/early 90s zone which was both in his impressionable adolescence and also in that sweet spot of which there exists plenty of colour footage and many of the tropes of the time are familiar and recognisable to a modern audience, but it was just about pre-mass computing so there were fewer algorithms around, less calculation and therefore much less corporate sheen. It's a pretty cheap appeal to nostalgia which, of course, is never about remembering how great the subjects in question were, but about remembering how much easier life felt for the viewer when those subjects were current.
Of course I'm sure Kapadia would be the first to accuse boomer-age Brexiteers (or whoever) of harking back to a golden age which never really existed.
I’d say you’re full Shilton about him are you?
Nah, not at all. He was a wonderful player and hand of god was just one of those things that can go your way (English press get way too red in the face about CHEATING), but off the pitch he was probably a much more horrible cunt than Shilton was, the latter's crimes being restricted to being a bitter old man, something he is hardly alone in.
I don’t know a thing about Peter Shilton aside from the fact he still can’t let it go.
He was a top lad off the pitch too.
You'd be pissed off wouldn't you? World Cup quarter final, 0-0, some prick punches it into the net and scores and somehow gets away with it when in legal play you'd have caught it easily. If one is going to be bitter about something for 34 years that's a pretty good candidate.
I'm sure half of Ireland is yet to forgive Thierry Henry.
Asif Kapadia strikes me as the kind of twat that says he loves flawed heroes and then, when he gets the chance, prints the legend instead. Suzuka '90 should be about how he tried to kill a rival to even a score, instead it's "OOOOH, GRID SPOTS! SUBTERFUGE!"
Although I guess most biographical docs go the same way. I go back to the one about Gazza that decided to ignore his domestic batterings and skirted around his alcoholism.
Maradona was a midget, he should have got to it anyway and the main person he needs to be angry with decades later is himself.
As someone said during the week, if ever we needed proof that we need to get over Henry then this week has shown it in a huge way. I don’t think it’s anywhere near the same extent anyway.
I do quite enjoy how pompous everyone gets about cheating when it’s mentioned though.
Deliberately trying to injure and remove the oppositions best player doesn’t make you a CHEAT though.
Loads of them were trying to take the second goal off him because of the first too Bitter old twats.
Argentinian defenders of course world famous for never having kicked anyone.
It's another front in the culture war and as ever, both sides need to get over themselves.
It seems to mainly be Ireland and Scotland lolling at us not letting it go, and, well...
It’s not though. You’ve picked up on that (with the help of your tabloids - lol) only because it gives you whatever argument that’s supposed to be, rather than facing up to the fact it should have been let go of years ago. Seeing all the sour pusses on them again this week is laughable at this stage - to the whole world.
You've made six completely unprompted posts in an hour ing about it and saying we need to let it go.
I’m finding it a bit bizarre, albeit pleasantly surprising, how everyone has been more than happy to gloss over/ignore Maradona’s hateful characteristics to praise his footballing ability.
I'm a twit
I wound up watching the documentary. Y'know, it did a good job of encapsulating what a mess his life was. A phenomenal talent terrified by every second of what came with it.