Never Felt Cheated?

Diego’s death is a lesson in perspective

Maradona was going to sign for Leeds, you know?

It was 1987, the year after he won the World Cup when we were in the Second Division. I remember it being on the back of the Evening Post at the time. £8million, we were going to bid.

Would have been a good move for Diego, he could have slotted in nicely next to Ian Baird.

Inexplicably, he stayed with Napoli and we had to wait a couple more years for a genuine world-class striker to arrive (Lee Chapman, before you ask).

The death of the great man – Diego, not Chapman (alive) – was another grim component of a really grim week.

Tiers were announced and we’re all getting locked up again – unless you are lucky enough to live in Cornwall or the Isle of Wight. What is the point in letting everyone on the Isle of Wight roam free? I have been to the Isle of Wight. There is nowhere to go.