[cryptonector]

Lol, yeah. That game in 1986 must have hurt. One of the most beautiful goals of all time (which Messi has replicated twice), then that awful hand-of-g-d goal (which Messi, sadly, has also replicated twice).

[heywhatupboys]

> then that awful hand-of-g-d goal

everyone celebrates this goal. No fan has ever given him shit about it

[cryptonector]

I care, what can I say. I want clean fútbol.

[phlakaton]

Soccer is played by gloriously messy human beings. A bit of schmutz now and then is not so terrible a thing.

[cryptonector]

That adds to Messi's greatness, since he's not "gloriously messy".

[mmplxx]

I would say that Messi is gloriously messy.

[phlakaton]

At the very least we can say he is gloriously Messi.

[nickcox]

The second goal should also never have stood. Clear foul on Glenn Hoddle.

[andrepd]

36 years on and still seething x)

The Hand of God is a clear foul, but the Goal of the Century is clean as a whistle. Funnily, these two goals alone — both so different — are pretty much the summary of Diego Maradona

[cryptonector]

I like that take.

[mongol]

It was opposite order. Hand goal, then dribble.