In praise of Maradonna

[PK99]

Which makes no difference at all to the fact that he remains one of the greatest players of all time.

Any sportsman who cheats forfeits for all time the right to be called one of the greatest .

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Any sportsman who cheats forfeits for all time the right to be called one of the greatest .

FFS. You know no-one outside England even cares about 'that' goal - they remember the way that Maradonna single-handedly took on almost the entire England team for the other goal he scored in the game - one of the greatest World Cup goals ever. And, BTW, most Latin nations regard deception as part of the game. The English just pretend they don't, at least when it's a foreigner who gets one up on them.

 

[PK99]

FFS. You know no-one outside England even cares about 'that' goal - they remember the way that Maradonna single-handedly took on almost the entire England team for the other goal he scored in the game - one of the greatest World Cup goals ever. And, BTW, most Latin nations regard deception as part of the game. The English just pretend they don't, at least when it's a foreigner who gets one up on them.

drug taking is cheating - hence it is banned

 

[montage]

Landis won the TdF...he is one of the greatest cyclists ever

 

[Smokin Joe]

drug taking is cheating - hence it is banned

A lot of twats in cycling, then (most of them in fact)

 

[Flying_Monkey]

drug taking is cheating - hence it is banned

And you think he's alone in football? Football is one of the sports that has almost completely got away with it when it comes to drugs. It was completely endemic at the top level in Italy in the 80s and 90s. We only know that because of a few cases that brought things to light - the same could well be true of Britain. There is certainly a lot of suspicion around the 'training techniques' Dutch clubs used with the young players they brought in from Latin America.

 

[dellzeqq]

if you look at the Juventus players from about 1990 on some of them show remarkable patterns of growth - deepening jaws, and widening shoulders. Of course it could all be down to being late developers....