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Clearly you know nothing. What you've just posted there would count for nearly 40% of the men in the UK.

How did you come to the conclusion that Diego is not a team player?

He read it in the daily star like he does with all his other football stuff.

I don't think that's really fair. On that ground Pele would be always no 1, but it's obvious that Maradona and particularly George Best were much better players. Of them all I'd have to say George Best is the best, followed by maradona then pele/ messi then there's a tier below this - Zidane, Dalglish, Cruyff aand the likes ...

well then nearly 40% of men in the Uk are c**ts. i dont care how good you are at anything if your a drug addict who doesn't try to know your kids your a c**t. messi is a brilliant role model for any young footballer. maradona is the worst role model

Your letting your feelings cloud your judgement. Maradonna is head and shoulders above Messi. We're talking about what heppened on the pitch not off it. Maradonna played in an era when players like himself where kicked limps out for 90 minutes. He dragged Argentina to two world cup finals winning one.

im not letting anything cloud my judgement. as i don't care about world cups i know what maradona did in world cups. i know what messi has done in world cups. doesn't matter to me. i think messi and zidane for that matter have more natural talent than maradona. but we are of different eras i never watched maradona play. i've watched messi since he was 17. i am completely biased towards messi, best player ever or not, he is my favourite player

If thats the case how can you seriously compare either player?

i've watched videos i've seen 2/3 documentaries about him and the world cups what i meant was i have never watched him live and the videos i have seen are of one of matches and snip-its of matches. and i have never directly compared the 2 but everyone knows they are similar players

I've seen Maradonna play live ( all be it on tv ) and I can tell you that he's head and shoulders above Messi.