Posted on 11/28/2020 1:00:22 AM PST by Ozguy1945
This link from my Jim Cousens website (a site already judged not to be up “to community standards” on Facebook) is a comic Australian approach to making sense of how a great cheat and drug addict is idolised for his unique sporting skill. Australians often make sense of things by ridiculing them. As did Mark Twain.
Diego Maradona’s very clever act of cheating is called the Hand Of God and determined the result of a major international sporting contest. He should have been given a red card and ejected from the game. Instead he got a goal.
What does that look like to Americans?
Is it proof that European (including English) culture is inherently corrupt?
Or does America have its own such stories requiring serious thought and challenging our ideas of what is moral and what is not??
O.J. Simpson?
Shoeless Joe Jackson?
Pete Rose?
The man smeared as “Tricky Dicky” who was a transformative peace building Qaker president?
The current alleged President-elect?
Anyone else?
Right off the bat Diego Maradona wasn’t European. He was from Argentina. If he would have been caught it would have been a yellow card. The goal would have been disallowed but he would still have been in the game. England also came back from that goal and tied the score so it was Maradona’s second goal that finished England off, not the first one.
Who is the American equivalent? I have no idea because I never heard of this guy until he died. Plus that mortuary worker got fired for taking a selfie with him. And just how did he die? Has it been released yet? Soccer or futbol means nothing to me unless some lesbian chick wants to celebrate a goal and take her shirt off to show me her mosquito bites.
If Biden gets in and the Dems win the Georgia runoff elections America will be overrun by people from sh*thole countries and soccer will become our next national pastime.
Mike Tyson would be the nearest American equivelant
equivalent
or Michael Jordan
or finally Tiger Woods
Most sporting figures, even the great ones, are famous in their era then pretty much forgotten. So even though he was considered one of the best players of the 20th century he was soccer's Kirk Gibson. Pele would be the Babe Ruth of soccer, someone everyone knows. That's just how it goes.
Maradona was a genius of his time but a tortured soul off the pitch.
This is the usual thread for the ignorant and fat slobs to attack the beautiful game.
A game I might add that has seen some great Americans emerge.
Some play across the pond with matches where no one bows to BLM Marxists.
Just say’in.
Lance.
Interesting you mention Tyson and I'm assuming his ear biting of Holyfield.
I recently saw an interview where he explained why he did it. Apparently Holyfield was continuously head butting Tyson and the referee was letting him get away with it. So it was out of frustration and anger that he did it........
Wow - this "soccer" sounds like a much more dangerous game than I ever imagined.
It’s hard to believe that in 2020 they’re still playing a game the way it was designed to be timed using an hourglass instead of even just an ANALOG clock.
Diego Mardonna was a great soccer player. I heard he had a heart attack that was fatal. That said, in high school I played soccer (was a goalie) and had a few foreign players (2 Americans from Germany, their dads were in the military), 2 from Lebanon (their parents wanted them out of the country since it was calling into civil war), and a few Canadians. Loved soccer, my coach had a few Tamp Bay Rowdies players visit us, too ..
Is it proof that European (including English) culture is inherently corrupt?
He was from Argentina.
It may be boring to you but if you played it and hockey among other similar sports, you can appreciate it.
If you didn’t well, yeah, boring.
Those who choose 300 pound behemoths on steroids as their athletic ideal for viewing, good luck.
There ya go, Walter. Proving once again your anti-American credentials.
Are you Euro-scum or just their fluffer?
#SoccerIsTheGhey
I've played both soccer and hockey at different times in my life.
They don't even belong in the same conversation. Hockey is THE best sport out there -- period. Soccer is a pathetic shadow of hockey.
Interestingly, many critics thought ice hockey was too dull and similar to soccer back in the early decades of its existence in North America around the turn of the 19th-20th century. This changed dramatically when the rules were modified sometime around World War I or the 1920s to allow free substitutions and changing lines "on the fly." This instantly transformed hockey from a slow-paced, methodical game like soccer to one with an exciting, frenetic pace that makes even American football look like backgammon.
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