I’d miss seeing Diego Maradona play. I caned my old car to within an inch of its life on the motorway back north until it juddered and shook. It’s different from if you’re sitting in your front room watching a moving picture and Maradona epitomised everything I loved about football. This iconic image of Diego Maradona vs Belgium at the 1982 World Cup sums him up perfectlyMaradona dribbled into the opposition area and flicked the ball deftly past Peter Shilton with the outside of his left boot. ‘I don’t care what Maradona did with his life,’ the Argentine writer and cartoonist, Roberto Fontanarrosa, once wrote.

Source: Daily Mail November 28, 2020 22:32 UTC