Quote Originally Posted by matt_magpie View Post
Unbelievable player and life. Many still discussing today do they forgive him for cheating. What a lot of English fans probably need to understand certainly from the point of south american teams doing so well is a lot of the players have that street mentality, fight for everything, being cute/crafty and having that passion to win at all costs. Does that make it right, possibly not, but if some of our players had that mental attitude with their ability we might have done something since 1966.
Some of the Argentinian approach to playing England goes back to that match in 1966 and this article gives some views on what happened, including a full quote of Ramsey using the words "animals" - https://www.soccer-history.co.uk/lat...1966-world-cup

The Falklands would have stirred further antagonism towards England.

Flawed genius is my view. And Laddo - he, Maradona (thanks Banjo with a broken string) had gone off the rails whilst he was still playing top level football. As one Argentinian politician said "we don't want him as a role model for our kids" - bit late mate.

My vote for GOAT goes to Pele - it is hard to knock any points off of him and he was regularly fouled out of the game and didn't revert to cheating for revenge.