The Argentina maestro worked relentlessly to best weaponise his skills in football’s most brutally defensive era
Diego Maradona is smoking a cigar, elbow propped on the balcony rail. From a few feet below you can see the creases of his jowls as he shouts above the canned music.
A little later he leans perilously far out across the balustrade to conduct a group of his hysterically excited fans in song, red-rimmed eyes blazing, a kind, footballing anti-pope.
Written by Barney Ronay
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