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GeoffCapes

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A fine World Cup record.
  • Sent off in 1982
  • Handball goal in 1986
  • Handball preventing a goal in 1990
  • On drugs in 1994

In 82 he was sent off a few minutes from the end of Argentina’s last game (they were out anyway) for a petulant stamp on a Brazilian after a whole tournament of being kicked up in the air.
some of the assaults (you couldn’t even call them tackles) were horrific and yet no one was sent off for them.
So it’s hardly surprising that he lost his rag at the end.
If he had been in an England shirt and hand balled it in against Argentina we would be calling him a legend.
 

Doctor Houx

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Do you feel the same way about Lionel Messi. Or Sergio Aguerro? Or all Argentinians?
I have no interest in football whatsoever so have never heard of Sergio Aguerro and have heard of Lionel Messi but couldn’t have told you if he was Argentinian or not.

Almost 40 years after returning from the Falklands I still suffer bad dreams and flashbacks on occasion from rescuing burnt and seriously injured shipmates from the deck of the Atlantic Conveyor having been hit by Argentine fire. I have a dislike of the country and its citizens which is not rational I know, but I’m human and fallible. I think WW2 vets felt the same way about Germany, and I make no apologies for defending British Sovereign territory against an aggressive foreign invader.
 
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Wattie

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I don’t think anyone British particularly likes him; but it can’t be denied that he was absolutely amazing to watch. My fave clip, sound on:

He was very popular in Scotland at one point.
What a talent, the effortless skill he demonstrates in that clip is sensational.
Isn’t it funny how many of those with an incredible “gift” also have a self destruct tendency that ultimately ends it all.
Sad.
 

Delmonte

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The Argentine Gazza. I hated him when I was younger for what he did to England, plus he epitomised the cartoon love / hate relationship between our two countries. Nowadays I've mellowed with age, visited and love Latin America, and there is another Argentine celebrated in my town with murals of him on walls. And English players cheat and dive as badly as any Latins.... I can now see him for what he was, a once in a generation type, a kid from a nothing background with magic in his feet. I don't see him as GOAT as some do... Of players I've seen, that for me is Messi or Zidane. But still, a special player. RIP