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Post by merse on Jun 17, 2010 12:30:03 GMT
 Maradona's behaviour is getting more and more irrational by the minute ~ more like a "Garden Gnome Cheerleader" than a working coach in the technical area. Launching into insulting tirades against Pele and Platini like a recently departed member from this forum than a rational interviewee at press days.......................and now caught on camera obsessively crossing himself (up to eight times in rapid succession) on the touchline. Shouldn't FIFA be taking action against him, something like drug testing or sectioning the irritating little man?
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Post by loyalgull on Jun 17, 2010 12:39:04 GMT
the bloke is a waste of space,just looking at him makes me want to give him a good hiding,he talks crap and disrespects legends whom quite frankly make him look an embarassment,he isnt fit enough to lace there boots
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Post by The knight who says "nee" on Jun 17, 2010 12:44:52 GMT
Personally i'm not so sure I would want them to take action against him (although can't see that they won't).
The reason being most press conferences are really dull these days as managers reel out cliche after cliche from a rehearsed script.
Whilst I don't agree with what he says at least it makes for interesting viewing!
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Post by lambethgull on Jun 17, 2010 12:48:23 GMT
I wouldn't want him coaching my team, but I find him hilarious.
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Post by Rags on Jun 17, 2010 13:10:53 GMT
Maradona's behaviour is getting more and more irrational by the minute ~ more like a "Garden Gnome Cheerleader" than a working coach in the technical area. Launching into insulting tirades against Pele and Platini like a recently departed member from this forum than a rational interviewee at press days.......................and now caught on camera obsessively crossing himself (up to eight times in rapid succession) on the touchline. Shouldn't FIFA be taking action against him, something like drug testing or sectioning the irritating little man? Unless the media I take notice of aren't doing their job properly, all Maradona has done is reply to both Pele and Platini insulting his integrity and ability. I have yet to see anything that Maradona has said that can be described as an insulting tirade, especially as he appeared to be half asleep as he was saying it. Tell me if he's said something that I've missed. I don't see what is wrong with "obsessively crossing himself" either. It's causing no physical harm to anyone and can't be described as insulting behaviour. I'd suggest that there's nothing that FIFA can do, and no need for them to do anything either. Unless "irritating Merse" is a breach of FIFA regulations! ;D He's using the Jose school of bunker mentality and psychology to absorb all the media attention away from his players. For all the pre-tournament talk of him being a joke coach, his side seems to be one of the better ones I've seen so far. If forced to choose a team, Argentina are my tip to win the Final. |
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Post by Pappy on Jun 17, 2010 13:33:04 GMT
I don`t think Maradona should be involved in football (Not because of the hand incident) but because of him being a drug addict, having been known to do coccaine. Why he is coach of a national team is beyond me.
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Post by merse on Jun 17, 2010 13:46:20 GMT
I don`t think Maradona should be involved in football (Not because of the hand incident) but because of him being a drug addict, having been known to do coccaine. Why he is coach of a national team is beyond me.[/quote] That's exactly where I am coming from...................he wouldn't be allowed to coach kids in this country as he wouldn't pass the FA's Child Protection criteria, so how the hell he can be allowed on the world stage with his appalling reputation and past is beyond me. He is displaying all the outward signs of a crack head once again with his current behaviour isn't he! |
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Post by lambethgull on Jun 17, 2010 14:05:06 GMT
Well I think he's good value, and the odds are that he isn't going to be banished for past or current misdemeanors, whether that's right or not.
Whilst the World Cup represents the pinnacle of world football, its primary role is surely to entertain, and Maradonna is always going to do that.
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Post by Pappy on Jun 17, 2010 14:10:05 GMT
If he wasnt doing drugs and other things like swearing at reporters in interviews than maybe I would chuckle think, then thinnk he`s an idiot and then let that be the end of it but it isnt.
If a Torquay player or whoever was found out to be doing drugs like Coke or be heard swearing and shouting at reporters would you want him anywhere the club or any other person for that matter. I wouldnt and I am sure other people would agree. I dont find Maradona entertaining at all. Mourinho I found entertaining when he was at Chelsea as he was clean when he was at his best in interviews.
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Post by chelstongull on Jun 17, 2010 14:45:04 GMT
Opinion as with most things would appear to be divided.
Because of his past as a drug snorting advocating it's okay to cheat by using his hand git. I feel he should have no involvement in football other than cleaning out the bogs after the team have had an extremely hot curry in the middle of a heat wave.
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Post by merse on Jun 17, 2010 14:57:57 GMT
Well I think he's good value...................
Whilst the World Cup represents the pinnacle of world football, its primary role is surely to entertain, and Maradonna is always going to do that. So is Mr Punch, so is a porn film; so let's throw babies over stadium balconies and have live sex on the pitch at half time!  |
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Post by lambethgull on Jun 17, 2010 15:20:55 GMT
Well he's unlikely to be going away any time soon, Merse...so tune in, put your feet up and enjoy the show  |
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Post by Rags on Jun 17, 2010 15:35:38 GMT
That's exactly where I am coming from...................he wouldn't be allowed to coach kids in this country as he wouldn't pass the FA's Child Protection criteria, so how the hell he can be allowed on the world stage with his appalling reputation and past is beyond me. I would respectfully suggest that the FA's Child Protection criteria isn't instigated, controlled, managed and policed by someone with the same, er, integrity as Sepp Blatter. Diego Maradona might be found unsavoury by some on this forum (and I'm not saying I like him myself) but apart from a history of drug addiction (which I understand to have been successfully treated although who knows how true that is) his behaviour is positively angelic compared to the likes of, for example, Jack Warner. And I am very well aware of Maradona's verbal abuse of journalists; but that sort of endears him to me, actually!  I wouldn't want Diego Maradona managing in this country, but I am more than happy to watch his irreverent antics at the FIFA copyright World Cup trademark 2010 all rights reserved don't wear a t-shirt with Mastercard on it or we'll clap you in irons even if it is from Germany 2006 tournament. |
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Post by chrish on Jun 17, 2010 18:16:45 GMT
Actually I think he's quite in his rights to have a go at Pele and Platini. One is just wheeled out like some advertising chimp and the other is trying to make football a game where you won't be able to tackle. Both Pele and Platini have never bothered to manage a football team so what would they know?
I do, however, think he's an odious cheating little shit who's brought many problems upon himself and dealt with them very poorly. Morally there's a question whether he should've been banned from football a long time ago. But take away the drugs, the whores, the tax evasion, the connections with the local Comorra and the blatant cheating and you've had a wonderful footballer who had the ability to win games by himself at the highest level.
He's a better footballer than an actor. He was awful in "The man with the golden gun".
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Post by Jon on Jun 17, 2010 18:23:12 GMT
Unless "irritating Merse" is a breach of FIFA regulations! ;D I don't think he is a breach of FIFA regulations. He is irritating though, isn't he?  |
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