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Listed below are comments made by giganticfootyfella between Wednesday, 29th October 2008 and Monday, 3rd November 2008.

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Coming to Maradona's defence 8:07pm on 03 Nov 2008 George Best faced FAR worse treatment and less protection in the 70s an still never cheated.

Lineker faced similar intimidation and bad tackles in the same era and never cheated like Maradona.

The logic/reasoning in defense of Maradona is fallacious.

e.g.

Maradona was mistreated as MANY skilled players were But they did NOT resort to the cheating and the extent/level of cheating that Maradona got up to.

I understand the point of saying he was cheated against many times so he might have wanted to reciprocate, the problem is;

The extension of such logic when taken out of the context of hitting back against those cheating against him in games would be akin to.....

A man not beating up those that have beat him up, but rather...

Of a man beating up any innocent man he wants in future on the grounds that he was once unfairly beaten. Try making that logic stand up in court!

Maradona was cheated against and it could be argued that returning the favour has a peverse logical fairness to it.

But to suggest as this article does that Maradona was ok to cheat those that did not cheat him because he has been cheated by other different players and teams in the past is ridiculous!!!

The extent of the cheating is also an issue. You canhot say that going to ground under some contact is remotely the same thing as it is NOT.

I am NOT aware of many players across the world who would do/have done what Maradona did. That is not a British thing.

The fact is Maradona cheated in a despicable way and no amount of moral relativism or cultural explanations can wipe that fact away. I am perfectly aware of the fact that the culture of Argentine football is different and I am not a little Englander or a right wing reactionary (liberal Guardian reader who regulally watches La Liga, Seria a, etc) but that does not make cheating this badly right!

Brazilian players and teams have not traditionaly embraced cheating like Argentina and Maradona did, neither have any other nation, teams etc

In fact virtually no footballers on any continent have gone for and tried to excuse away or even reval in the handball goal like Maradona has (though Messi in awre of Maradona does try.

So let's not try and justify the dark side of Maradona and just stick to the truth.

That he is one of the greatest players of all time, one of the best driblers of a football ever who scored one of if not the greatest goal of all time against England.

As a player Maradona is one of if not my favourite player ever, but he was also at times anasty cheat.
Carsley - the Championship's most effective player? 7:07pm on 29 Oct 2008 As an Evertonian I miss Lee big time, he is greatly missed by the fans and the club.

Lee will always be welcome and loved at Everton for everything he did for us.

He always put in shift for us and worked hard for the team and his quality and intelligence in protecting the back four was not underestimated by the Goodison faithful.

I hope Lee has a great time at Birmingham where I am sure he will off great defensive quality.

Best to Lee and here is hoping we see him at a few matches at Everton in the years to come.

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