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View Jamesey's Profile Jamesey Flag Wandsworth 05 Jul 18 10.26am Send a Private Message to Jamesey Add Jamesey as a friend

From todays "Telegraph". I've printed it out cos it's a members' site.

"Diego Maradona has branded England’s win over Colombia “a monumental theft”, accusing them of diving and demanding an apology from Fifa for appointing Mark Geiger to referee the match.
In a scathing attack on Argentine television, Maradona claimed Harry Kane “threw himself down” for the penalty that gave England the lead, insisting the striker was not fouled.
He blamed Pierluigi Collina, the chairman of Fifa’s referees committee, for Colombia’s defeat following the decision to put Geiger in charge of Monday’s game.
Maradona attended the match as a ‘Fifa legend’, with his role as an ambassador having already come under scrutiny over his antics during Argentina’s games at the tournament.
The man whose Hand of God goal helped knock England out of the 1986 World Cup told TeleSUR: “I saw a monumental theft. I apologise to all the Colombian people, but they must know the players are not to blame.
“It is the man who decides who the referee is who is to blame. A man like that [Geiger] should not be put in charge of a game of that magnitude.
“With all due respect, Pierluigi Collina, as the man who designates the referees, he is very bad. He must apologise to the Colombian people.
“I told [Fifa president] Gianni Infantino that, if I worked for Fifa, I would change everything. It has to be transparent. That's why I didn't go there.
“The referee will know a lot about baseball, but he has no idea about football. The Colombian players asked for VAR [Video Assistant Referee intervention] and he did not give it to them.
“Twice, the English threw themselves to the ground and he did not admonish them. This was theft.”"
In an ill-tempered match Geiger struggled to control, England took the lead when Kane was bundled to the ground by Carlos Sanchez.
Maradona said: “The penalty was not a foul. In fact, it was Kane's fault.
“The referee is looking somewhere else and when he turns his head, Kane is on the floor.
“Kane used his arm to hook Sanchez and then threw himself down.
“I repeat, why didn't the referee ask for the VAR? Colombia died standing. That's why I applaud them.”
A Fifa spokesman said: “Fifa strongly rebukes the criticism of the performance of the match officials, which it considers to have been positive in a tough and highly-emotional match.
“Furthermore, it also considers the additional comments and insinuations made as being entirely inappropriate and completely unfounded.
“At a time when Fifa is doing everything within its power to ensure principles of fair play, integrity and respect are at the forefront of this World Cup and how the organisation is now run, Fifa is extremely sorry to read such declarations from a player who has written the history of our game.”


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Edited by Jamesey (05 Jul 2018 10.28am)

 


Nothing is fool-proof - fools are too ingenious

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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 05 Jul 18 10.53am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

TBF Maradona is well-qualified to comment on cheating.

 


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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 05 Jul 18 10.59am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by YT

TBF Maradona is well-qualified to comment on cheating.

I feel a bit sorry for him as he's obviously a sandwich short of a picnic

 

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View Cucking Funt's Profile Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 05 Jul 18 11.01am Send a Private Message to Cucking Funt Add Cucking Funt as a friend

It's not difficult to see why he has a particular affiliation with Colombia.

 


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View Jamesrichards8's Profile Jamesrichards8 Flag 05 Jul 18 11.04am Send a Private Message to Jamesrichards8 Add Jamesrichards8 as a friend

Don’t know why anyone listens to him anymore. man disgraced himself during and after his professional career

 


When you’re knocked on your back and your life’s a flop...

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View Buckspalace's Profile Buckspalace Flag Thornborough 05 Jul 18 11.46am Send a Private Message to Buckspalace Add Buckspalace as a friend

The bloke is a feckwit no he is a cheating feckwit he should be banned from attending the remainder of the tournament , t***.

 

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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 05 Jul 18 11.48am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by Cucking Funt

It's not difficult to see why he has a particular affiliation with Colombia.

 

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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 05 Jul 18 11.53am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

I feel a bit sorry for him as he's obviously a sandwich short of a picnic

Still capable of presenting a nightly World Cup show for the Venezuela-based broadcaster Telesur, though (according to the BBC Sport website version of this story yesterday). I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He’s a disgrace and always has been.

 


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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 05 Jul 18 11.56am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Lineker's tweeted reply said it all for me in terms of Maradonna.

In terms of Columbia being "denied" progress because of the ref - a criticism levelled at us throughout Latin America it would appear - I suspect I speak with most of this country and anyone else who loves the game when I say:

1. Clearly unhappy when a team not only plays them at their own game but was better at it than them

2. Columbia very fortunate to have a full compliment of players on the field at game end

3. We deserved to win as we were much better at FOOTBALL.

 

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View Nobbybm's Profile Nobbybm Flag Dartford 05 Jul 18 12.04pm Send a Private Message to Nobbybm Add Nobbybm as a friend

He's a joke.

How the hell he was even considered 'ambassador' material for FIFA is bad enough but to still be in that role is plain lunacy.

The only ambassadorial role he could fulfil would be under a 'don't do drugs' campaign.

And he still doesn't get why he doesn't receive the adulation that Pele does.

 


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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 05 Jul 18 2.00pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Originally posted by Buckspalace

The bloke is a feckwit no he is a cheating feckwit he should be banned from attending the remainder of the tournament , t***.

He should've been banned from ever attending one again after being thrown out of the 1994 World Cup.

 


Optimistic as ever

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View martin2412's Profile martin2412 Flag Living The Dream 05 Jul 18 2.04pm Send a Private Message to martin2412 Add martin2412 as a friend

Probably still bitter that they got their ar5es kicked in the Falklands.

 

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