The Hand of God

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

I disagree, it was the officials who missed the handball in Maradona’s case, they should be getting the flak. Similar situation last Monday, I don’t think many can recall the Morecambe ‘keeper’s name with the punching incident or the player who ‘dived’ for their pen but, quite correctly in my opinion, we all pilloried Bobby Madley for his ineptness. You may as well label nearly everyone who’s played the game a cheat, we’ve all tried to hoodwink a ref and I doubt we’ve held our hands up if we’ve succeeded. I’m sure when I played I’ve had goals allowed when I knew for sure I’d got away with a foul but own up and tell the ref, no chance, as well as myself taking the advantage of a dodgy decision the bollocking from team mates and coaches if I didn’t would, I reckon, be justified.

Agreed but I remembered Kyle Letheren's name because I'm so old that I remember his father, Glan, playing in goal for a few clubs and being called up to the Welsh squad without ever getting a cap.
Also, it was definitely Graham Taylor who was labelled turnip head.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Agreed but I remembered Kyle Letheren's name because I'm so old that I remember his father, Glan, playing in goal for a few clubs and being called up to the Welsh squad without ever getting a cap.
Also, it was definitely Graham Taylor who was labelled turnip head.

Anyone who hoodwinks a ref is a cheat

Bothroyd was a great player of magical skill but a diving cheat

Peter Wittingham was the sort of player I admired , he never faked it

[Its been emotional]

Maradona got hacked down at every opportunity in that game ....and Terry Butcher even said he should have smashed Maradona on the halfway line for the greatest World Cup goal ever scored.
All would be classed at cheating by the letter of the rules.

[Mario Miethig]

Maradona got hacked down at every opportunity in that game ....and Terry Butcher even said he should have smashed Maradona on the halfway line for the greatest World Cup goal ever scored.
All would be classed at cheating by the letter of the rules.

Terry Fenwick admits he virtually assaulted Maradona. Said Maradona received treatment for four minutes and still came back for more. Fenwick gets praise for that though.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Maradona got hacked down at every opportunity in that game ....and Terry Butcher even said he should have smashed Maradona on the halfway line for the greatest World Cup goal ever scored.
All would be classed at cheating by the letter of the rules.

Too right , just as bad

I hate sporting cheats

[mazadona10]

Too right , just as bad

I hate sporting cheats

Every footballer has cheated in some way if that's appealing for a throw that's not theirs.
If you cannot accept that, I don't understand how you can enjoy the game.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

He’s not wide of the mark though

I am right on the money , dreadful newspapers , read by feckwits and knuckle daggers

Or old gits

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I read the Daily Mail. Are you suggesting that I'm ignorant and stupid ?

its shite


You have your moments


I mean why would anyone read a newspaper that supported the nazis ?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Is there any thread that you cannot get your hatred politics into? You really are a sad person.

He's off

Quentin Letts has risen from the grave

Glory be

[xsnaggle]

He's off

Quentin Letts has risen from the grave

Glory be

Sad sad person. Hatred of anyone who doesn't agree with your narrow political hatred ans envious of anyone who has money. You must have a miserable life in your head.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Sad sad person. Hatred of anyone who doesn't agree with your narrow political hatred ans envious of anyone who has money. You must have a miserable life in your head.

I am doing fine financially , I wouldn't want to be rich like you

I dont hate people who read the daily mail and sun but they are either lacking grey matter , ignorant , old or plain stupid

Both papers backed the police in the Hillsborough disaster and the sun made up stories about Liverpool fans pissing on cops as they were apparently trying to give first aid to dying fans

It was a complete lie and people who read that paper after being told of its past are not in my telephone book

Thats the way it is

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Can you imagine the Sun’s headlines had, say, Gascoigne scored such a goal against Argentina? You can picture the headline ‘Gazza Hands It To The Argies’, the English would have been creaming their pants over it for years with not a whiff of the cheat word. The English media have milked the ‘Maradona is a cheat’ thing for years and many have fallen for it. Does anyone remember Peter Crouch scoring against Trinidad & Tobago in a group game in 2006? He yanked the dreadlocks of the defender to prevent him challenging for the ball in the air.....all good fun though according the English press.

you can't say that !

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Every footballer has cheated in some way if that's appealing for a throw that's not theirs.
If you cannot accept that, I don't understand how you can enjoy the game.

You reckon every footballer cheats ?

I simply don't agree and I not accept what you are saying

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

He was the most cheated against footballer the game has ever seen, he had players out to quite literally finish him.

Thats besides the point , he was a cheat

And used coke to cheat

[Tuerto]

Thats besides the point , he was a cheat

And used coke to cheat

I don't know if you're familiar with the effects of Cocaine, but it wouldn't make anyone a better athlete, the only advantage is that he probably talked the bollocks off whoever was marking him

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I don't know if you're familiar with the effects of Cocaine, but it wouldn't make anyone a better athlete, the only advantage is that he probably talked the bollocks off whoever was marking him

Coke gives some people incredible inner strength

A lot of holes in their nose as well mind

Not my thing

[Its been emotional]

I don't know if you're familiar with the effects of Cocaine, but it wouldn't make anyone a better athlete, the only advantage is that he probably talked the bollocks off whoever was marking him

One regret Diego had was ......... he often wondered how good he good have been if he never started taking drugs ............
Finished a game back in the day Sunday 4 ish in Italy partied non stop till Thursday morning.......woke up had to get himself right for the next game Sunday ..........done this for 2 plus years but won the league plus the UEFA Cup with a piss poor club Napoli and won the World Cup ........................
Fecking genius................end of

[NYCBlue]

Bobby Robson seemed a good man and was a better than average manager. But I'll never forget him referring to Bryan Robson as his "best player" when he lost him to injury. He kind of lost me after that.

[Hilts]

Bobby Robson seemed a good man and was a better than average manager. But I'll never forget him referring to Bryan Robson as his "best player" when he lost him to injury. He kind of lost me after that.

He probably was their best player.

Bryan Robson was a fantastic player.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

One regret Diego had was ......... he often wondered how good he good have been if he never started taking drugs ............
Finished a game back in the day Sunday 4 ish in Italy partied non stop till Thursday morning.......woke up had to get himself right for the next game Sunday ..........done this for 2 plus years but won the league plus the UEFA Cup with a piss poor club Napoli and won the World Cup ........................
Fecking genius................end of

Loads of football greats out there , best , pele , cryuff , he was no better than them

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Bobby Robson seemed a good man and was a better than average manager. But I'll never forget him referring to Bryan Robson as his "best player" when he lost him to injury. He kind of lost me after that.

Bryan Robson was a box to box midfielder of great quality 👌

[NYCBlue]

Bryan Robson was a box to box midfielder of great quality ��

Quality? He was a good player, and a piss artist. Old school. His main attributes were his desire and his brute force. And Bobby Robson, as the manager of an international, or any team for that matter, should never have referred to him as his "best player". It's naive, unprofessional and poor man-management. I can't be bothered looking it up, but as I recall Bryan Robson picked up a stupid injury and England got to within a whisker of the WC final without him.

[the other bob wilson]

Quality? He was a good player, and a piss artist. Old school. His main attributes were his desire and his brute force. And Bobby Robson, as the manager of an international, or any team for that matter, should never have referred to him as his "best player". It's naive, unprofessional and poor man-management. I can't be bothered looking it up, but as I recall Bryan Robson picked up a stupid injury and England got to within a whisker of the WC final without him.

Yeah, but you'd "want him alongside you in the trenches".

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Yeah, but you'd "want him alongside you in the trenches".

I would

Robson , Peter Reid , Willie Boland

Midfield war horses

My kind of player

[MacAdder]

Quality? He was a good player, and a piss artist. Old school. His main attributes were his desire and his brute force. And Bobby Robson, as the manager of an international, or any team for that matter, should never have referred to him as his "best player". It's naive, unprofessional and poor man-management. I can't be bothered looking it up, but as I recall Bryan Robson picked up a stupid injury and England got to within a whisker of the WC final without him.

The media did hype him up a bit but I thought he was a top player Robson.

He was a hard player but fair.

Great engine and a good organiser.

Who knows, perhaps with him they might have even won it in 90