The day Diego Maradona dropped in on Manchester United!!!

Well, it’s not every day you get to shake the Hand of God. No wonder Rio Ferdinand admitted he was starstruck and Liverpool players were inventing excuses to meet the most iconic Argentinian since Che Guevara.

Diego Maradona, new coach of Argentina, was in the north-west on Friday, charming a new generation of English footballers with only a fuzzy memory of his notorious 1986 World Cup ‘goal’.

Maradona inspired awe from the likes of Manchester United’s Ferdinand and Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard when he called in at both clubs’ training grounds. More + images...

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