This piece by Eamon Dunphy first appeared in the Sunday Independent on April 7, 1991 after Diego Maradona was banned for 15 months after testing positive for cocaine. In taking the view that the player was effectively dead, it seems remarkably prescient.
Funeral home employees has been fired after they decided to take several photos with the dead body of football legend Diego Maradona.
Football legend Diego Maradona dead at 60 #Maradona Files#AFP pictures talken during the World Soccer Cup on June 29, 1986 at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City.
Football legend Diego Maradona dead at 60 #Maradona A picture by #AFP photographer @rschemidt
A funeral worker was fired after taking a disturbing selfie with Diego Maradona's dead body.
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Diego Maradona, the Argentine great who is lauded as one of soccer's finest players, is dead at 60
Football legend Diego Maradona dead at 60 #Maradona Files#AFP pictures talken during the World Soccer Cup on June 29, 1986 at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City.
Diego Maradona, Argentine soccer genius who saw heaven and hell, dead at 60
Diego Maradona Dead at 60, Soccer Legend Dies Weeks After Brain Surgery
Diego Maradona under fire for 'holding dead rare species of antelope’
Diego Maradona under fire for 'holding dead rare species of antelope’
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