Headlines the world over paid tribute to the
Argentina great, but there was some residual bitterness in certain sections of the
UK press
It has been 12,576 days since Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” goal – not that those working for England’s newspapers are counting. A theme of resentment permeated several front pages on Thursday, hours after the Argentine
Football great’s death aged 60.
As Argentina’s president Alberto Fernández declared three days of national mourning, editions across Europe, Argentina and the world portrayed Maradona as both a hero and a villain, one who both took his country to 1986
World Cup glory in
Mexico and snatched it away from another.