Bayern Munich beat Arsenal up today, toyed with them, let them think they were at par with them up until half-time and then pummeled them in the second half. But Bayern's 5-1 win is not really news. They won by the same score last year and as one of the commentators said today "Arsenal always play the Arsenal way. There is no other way." So if that same Arsenal lost 5-1 last year there was little hope they would do anything different today.
For some more fun new news, Fifa's new special ambassador Diego Maradona was involved in an "altercation" at a Madrid hotel today. I made up his Fifa title because I haven't seen anywhere what his actual role with Fifa is going to be, only that he has "a major role" to help Fifa "promote the game across the globe." He did some not so good self-promotion today when the police were called to the hotel after an alleged argument with his girlfriend, maybe? Nobody knows. A "yell" was heard. Both Maradona and his girlfriend denied anything happened. His lawyer blamed the media for making up a story because "Maradona doesn't have a private life." Yesterday, Maradona was filmed threatening to fight a reporter who claimed that Maradona had struck him as they walked past each other.
"Know that if I fight you one-on-one, I'll destroy you," was Maradona's polite warning to the reporter.
What is that psychological phenomenon where you still admire an individual who has proved to be, and excuse the non-technical term, an asshole to everybody and an all round generally not very nice person? I suffer from that condition when it comes to Maradona. The drugs, the links and parties with the criminal underworld in Naples. He's still a legend for what he did on the football pitch and I doubt anybody will ever match him in my lifetime. And if he had the character of his equal in another sport, Roger Federer, well, that would have been just too boring.
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