I disagree. He scored one of the best World Cup goals of all time in the same match but to claim that the other goal was the hand of god, and by inference that is was revenge for the Falklands conflict is disrespectful to the dead on both sides.
He was a cheat, a drug cheat and his reputation was soiled by that.
His lifestyle was crap. Our Argentinian friends ought to be investigating why he didn’t die 20 years ago, rather than persecute people for his recent death. (It might advance medical science.)
But in a bizarre sort of way it makes me admire his success on the field of play even more. Jeez knows what he would have done if he’d ever been fit.
As to his cheating on the field of play…as Pochettino helpfully explained a time or two when he was at Spurs, it’s what South Americans call “clever play”, and real problem is a lot of English forwards aren’t as clever as the South Americans.
Really don’t buy for a second that typical English forward has any moral reluctance to diving, feigning injury, fisting the ball into the net or whatever. The non cheating forward is up there with Snow White and the 7 vertically challenged people of indeterminate sex, as one of the great fairy tales.
