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There is a photo of Maradona from the ’86 World Cup match against Belgium. It is taken from behind Diego – he is the only Argie in shot – and shows about a half-dozen Belgian’s lined-up between him and (presumably, it’s out of shot) the goal.
Every single Belgian player looks like they are absolutely shitting themselves. It’s one of the best sports photo’s I’ve ever seen, and tells you all you need to know about what Maradona was capable of.
I’ll have a rake around for the pic – it’s an absolute topper.
I’ll have a rake around for the pic – it’s an absolute topper.
It took you 2 minutes to … eh … "rake around for the pic" – is it your desktop wallpaper or something?
I’ll have a rake around for the pic – it’s an absolute topper.
It took you 2 minutes to … eh … "rake around for the pic" – is it your desktop wallpaper or something?
A google of "Maradona Belgium" was all that was required, david.
"The Hand Of God" picture is obviously my desktop wallpaper.
Great pic Grasshopper
They cant all be marking Maradona can they? my guess would be the Belgians were defending a free kick in a wall and someone’s knocked the ball to Diego.Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
"The Hand Of God" picture is obviously my desktop wallpaper.
Ah yes – as we used to say around here about that quarter-final – the match where Maradona scored 2 goals, one of which was one of the greatest goals of all time and the other where he dribbled around most of the England team before scoring!
GH does well to remind people of the great goal against Belgium in the same tournament, but I have always said to English supporters that Gary Lineker’s inexplicable miss from Barnes’ cross knocked them out as much as El Diego’s sleight of hand.
I remember that ‘miss’ as being notable for a brilliant goal-line headed clearance by an Argentinian defender whose name escapes me.
Slightly off topic maybe but one game from that World Cup that seems to be forgotten, but to me was one of the best international games I have ever seen, was the last-16 game between the USSR and Belgium. 120 minutes of sustained brilliance.
Rob
Note to Grasshopper – Maradona’s goal as wallpaper? If there didn’t seem to be an on-line embargo on it I’d have Stewart Kennedy hanging on to the Wembley goalpost as mine, but hey, we don’t want to keep going on about these things do we?
Note to Grasshopper – Maradona’s goal as wallpaper? If there didn’t seem to be an on-line embargo on it I’d have Stewart Kennedy hanging on to the Wembley goalpost as mine, but hey, we don’t want to keep going on about these things do we?
Good one, rob. I think that game was the first ever Scotland vs England match I ever watched. I haven’t googled it, but it would be 1975 or so (?), and I seem to recall it was 5-0 or 5-1 to the Englanders, with Gerry Francis possibly getting a hatrick?
My abiding memory is not of Kennedy hanging from the bar, but of him kicking the post after one of the goals (maybe a penalty?).
Very traumatic it was for a young lad, too.
PS. 1977, Kenny Dalglish, Ray Clemence, Mersey Tunnel.
was the last-16 game between the USSR and Belgium. 120 minutes of sustained brilliance.
Cullimanns and Geret too? remeber it well. Was on late i think and was gripping but at least one severely offisde goal
Maradona is the best player ive seen and its often forgotten what a fine team player he was
As a person? …not that it should matter..and off the pitch….?
Well as the Scottish writer Gordon Burn who wrote the best bio on the subject said the otehr week…with what was clear understaement….
…….not a nice man
PS. 1977, Kenny Dalglish, Ray Clemence, Mersey Tunnel.
I may be wrong but I think that was in 1976 at Hampden?
1977 was the one where you lot won 2-1 and the supporters followed Kennedy’s example by hanging on the goalpost. the bar, the net, the corner flag………
Rob
PS. 1977, Kenny Dalglish, Ray Clemence, Mersey Tunnel.
I may be wrong but I think that was in 1976 at Hampden?
1977 was the one where you lot won 2-1 and the supporters followed Kennedy’s example by hanging on the goalpost. the bar, the net, the corner flag………
Rob
I always thought you were Scottish Rob
I thought Wembley 77 was the one where Gordon McQueen scored first with a header, and the second goal came from a Willie Johnston cross, knocked down by Jordon, and Dalglish nut-megged Clemence with the resulting shot from the 6yd-line??
According to Wikipedia, the Dalglish nutmeg came at Hampden in ’76. I could have sworn it was at Wembley myself. That would make Wembley ’77 the time we broke the bar.
Well, I bow to Rob’s greater knowledge.
Who scored the second goal in 1977? Was it even 2-1 to the Jocks??
According to the same source, it was 2-1 to Scotland, and Dalglish did score the second (Gordon McQueen got the first). If it’s any help, a certain Mick Channon scored a consolation goal for England. You appear to have got everything bar the method of Dalglish’s goal right.
My friend still has a piece of the wembley turf from ’77 hanging in a glass encasement on his kitchen wall with the inscription, " we came, we saw, we conquered."
Re; Stewart Kennedy. In 1974, prior to the wembley debacle, I got talking to an elderly woman on a return train journey from Dundee to Glasgow after witnessing Celtic ( Dalglish et al) thumping Dundee 6-0. She saw my green and white scarf and said that she might have heard of her son who played for Rangers. I had of course. Stewart Kennedy’s mum was a warn and kindly old girl.
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They cant all be marking Maradona can they? my guess would be the Belgians were defending a free kick in a wall and someone’s knocked the ball to Diego.
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