Michael Moynihan: Media treatment of Maradona's death shows ultimate tribute to his talents

For commentators and columnists, Maradona’s career occupied the writer’s version of the Goldilocks zone: not too distant to be impossibly remote, like Puskas or Di Stefano, but also immune from recency bias, so ripe for evaluation

A collage of Maradona front pages from around the world, put together by @Jotatrader_ok

First things first.

The best piece I read about Diego Maradona was in this newspaper last week. Liam Brady’s memories of Maradona gave a vivid picture of a real athlete, of which more elsewhere.