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...Consider all the positive strides in British-Irish relations since 1986, the year Diego Maradona's similarly illegal "Hand of God" goal knocked England out of the World Cup quarterfinals and propelled Argentina to the championship. Do we now want the Brits bitter that the Irish got their do-over, and they didn't? In 1985, umpire Don Denkinger cost the St. Louis Cardinals a World Series by blowing an obvious call at first base in the bottom of the ninth in Game 6. How did the Cardinal faithful respond to their unholy, unjust loss to their intra-state opponent...
...contrast to Trapattoni's righteous fury at being robbed, France's relief at making the finals was shot through with embarrassment and even shame. "The Hand of God" was the ironic headline in France's sports daily l'Equipe, a reference to the notorious hand punch Argentine striker Diego Maradona admitted he'd used to score the winning goal over England in a 1986 World Cup quarterfinal match. "Les Bleus: Hands Up," echoed Libération in its coverage of what it called France's "holdup" of the Irish team that had utterly dominated Wednesday's game prior to Henry...
Read "Argentina's Maradona: A Soccer God Turned Mortal...
...Still, nobody would bet against Maradona once again bouncing back. He has survived protracted periods of self-destructive frenzy, through cocaine abuse and run-ins with the law. He has survived heart attacks brought on by substance abuse and over-eating, and he was sent home from the 1994 World Cup after failing a doping test. Argentines love him as both triumphant hero and luckless martyr...
...regrets. "If Jesus stumbled, then why not I as well?" Maradona said after emerging from of his many drug rehab clinics a few years...