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In fact, it is quite moving to see the reaction of the British media to the death of Diego Maradona; the news of his death has affected the whole world and football as a group is in mourning. In an era of petty club squabbles and social media bullshit, it’s refreshing to see the vast majority of people come together to unequivocally say that we’ve lost a legend.
The back cover of the Daily mail It contains few words and is adorned with the image of an enchanted Diego lifting the World Cup. It is beautiful in its simplicity.
On the inside pages, Martin Samuel writes a poignant obituary. He rightly barely mentions the Hand of God, except to say that “ the goal that followed the Hand of God is arguably the best individual offering ever seen at a World Cup, and is the reason why the genius of Maradona will survive his notoriety. ”
They interview a clearly excited Ossie Ardiles, while Jeff Powell (‘the first British journalist to witness his genius’ no less) writes with self-indulgence but respect about this wonderful but tortured footballer, saying we should’ think of him not as the Hand of God. Think of him as the second best footballer to grace the game. Perhaps the greatest. ‘
All of which leads us to a question: Why the heck did they post that peter shilton reaction?
Why write literally thousands of words about a genuine soccer genius and then make room for Shilton’s venom and spite within hours of a man’s death?
He writes in the opening paragraph that his ‘thoughts are with his family’, but Mediawatch suspects that his family would like him to put the thoughts up his ass after what follows.
In the fourth paragraph he has already assured that England handled Maradona with ease during the first hour of that match in Mexico and they did not even have ‘special plans’, before …
Neither of us expected what happened next. How could we? He challenged me for a high, looped ball, but I knew he wouldn’t catch it with his head so he threw it into the net. A clear offense. Cheating. ‘
And Shilton really should know “cheat” when he sees it; the you were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after being found at 5 am on a country road with a woman named Tina in her car (by Tina’s husband). They were both partially clothed. In his haste to get away, Shilton crashed into a lamppost. He was fined and banned from driving after admitting to ‘taking a lady out for lunch’.
But enough of Shilton’s “traps”, let’s go back to his reaction to the actual death of a real man.
As he ran away to celebrate, he even looked back twice, as if waiting for the referee’s whistle. He knew what he had done. They all did, except the referee and two linesmen. I don’t care what they say, he won the match for Argentina. He scored a brilliant second almost immediately, but we were still reeling from what had happened minutes before.
“For the first time in the game, we let him run and he scored. It was a great goal, but we had no doubts: without the first goal, I would not have scored the second. ”
So that great goal, described on the page as ‘possibly the best individual offering ever seen at a World Cup’, only scored because everyone was so shocked by the deception? Maybe tell that to Peter Reid, who writes that he still ‘has nightmares’ about ‘one of the best we’ll see’. Would it have looked less like “an old horse chasing Frankel” if he weren’t still reeling for the first goal?
Here’s Shilton; It is not over yet.
“It has bothered me over the years.”
Do not say it.
I’m not going to lie about that now.
No one is asking you to lie. But maybe you’re not such an idiot about it right after the man is dead?
People say I should have cleared the ball anyway and let a smaller man get the better of me. That is rubbish. He ran me, but that can happen.
You wouldn’t have hit him if you knew you could head him, right? Of course, no. So I’m fine with all of that. ‘
Yes. It sounds like this.
“No, what I don’t like is that he never apologized.” He never at any time said that he had cheated and that he would like to apologize. Instead, he used his ‘Hand of God’ line. That was not right.
“It seems like he had greatness in him, but sadly he had no sportsmanship.”
He had at least one of those traits, Peter. He’s also ahead of Frankel in that particular race.
“It wasn’t just me who was duped, it was the whole team. We had a chance of reaching the quarterfinals and maybe the World Cup final. How often does this happen?
‘I was lucky. My opportunity came again four years later, but others were not so lucky. ‘
Shilton’s opportunity came four years later. And he could not save a single penalty in the World Cup semi-final penalty shootout against Germany. How often does this happen?
I guess it was all these things that left a bitter taste. On the soccer field, players do things that perhaps they shouldn’t do. It happens in the heat of the moment. But if it had been someone from our England team, I’d like to think they would have admitted it later.
“I hope it doesn’t stain Maradona’s legacy.”
Sorry if we don’t believe you, Mr. Shilton.
Really…
Don’t click on that Shilton piece in the Daily Mail. Instead, look at this photo from this morning and her face on Gazza telling her ‘that goal made you anyway’ pic.twitter.com/jZloDVrqzE
– Matthew Fogg (@MatthewLiamFogg) November 26, 2020
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