Small agile grinning implike being
a whirlwind with magic feet
sometimes seen of clay.
Streetkid's eye for an opening
sphere stolen with incredible dexterity.
It must have seemed to him
redress for youthful hardship
from penury to affluence.
Excesses of every kind
his many women forgiving
except the white lady,
and other wicked spirits
who held him in thrall.
Generous on the pitch and in life,
greatly missed, Diego.
Thanks Elizabeth, Branwell, Stephen. Anmolpreet and Stephen G. for the like and comment. Napoli made him but also broke him, perhaps. If he had gone to a stricter team in the north, like Inter, Juventus or Milan, they wouldn't have allowed him to do what he did, and perhaps his love of the game might have obliged him to avoid excesses.
Jennifer
Thanks. A great tribute.
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jennifer Malden
Tue 1st Dec 2020 15:49
Thanks Paul. As you say, very sad. Latterly he must have been impossible to live with. No-one of his family was amywhere near him when he died. He was supposed to go into re-hab for alcolholism, but had apparently refused. It must be heartbreaking to lose one's health like that, after being such a player, even if most of this was his fault.
Jennifer