The Two Diego Maradonas
Such genuine grief was displayed at the death, on November 25, of Diego Maradona that it seems churlish to cavil about the reductive commentary that has taken root in much of the English-language press about the two sides he represented—Maradona the cheat and Maradona the greatest footballer ever; or Maradona, the cocaine-sniffing, whore-mongering, Mafia plaything and Maradona,
