Oh Diego Maradona

Just stumbled across this story. The nothing if not interesting career of Diego Maradona continues with a new chat show. Given that the most recent headlines that he's made in the last few years have been about his deteriorating health, it's quite good to see that he is apparantly healthier than he has been for some time.

I know many of his problems have been self inflicted and it is quite easy to fixate on the seamier side of the Maradona story, for me however flawed man that he is, he is also the finest footballer the world has ever seen. This book also provides a balanced accout of the mans life, praise where it is deserved, fair criticism and some insight into why things turned out as they did for someone with the world at his(quite literaly) feet.

So good luck to him and it would be good if he really could put his demons behind him and find peace and happiness in the remainder of his life that seemed to be lacking when he was on top of the world. He certainly provided an abundance of joy and entertainment to those that watched him play football throughout his career. Well with a few exceptions, don't think that many England fans have forgiven him for the 'hand of god' moment.