The Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona
Reviews
"Easily
transcends the normal confines of sports journalism."
Economist
"An incredible story, very well told."
FourFourTwo
"Jaw-on-the-floor fascinating…a modern footballing
classic." FHM
"Excellent and well-researched…will be difficult to research… will
be difficult to surpass."
Sunday Times
"Reads like a passionate novel of investigation…much
more than just a biography, it's about a world of corruption,
intrigue and exploitation, "
As, Spain
"A piece of master craftsmanship'
Henk Span, Het Parool,
Holland
"Few people emerge innocent in this book,"
La Nacion,
Argentina
"Jimmy Burns is incapable of writing boringly. He has done
as good and as honest a book as could be written about the poor
boy from the wrong end of Buenos Aires, who went high and has fallen
far…illuminating and atmospheric as it cuts through the web
of myth, mystery and full-blooded hypocricy that surrounds on of
the world's most adored and detested sportsmen."
Hugh
O'Shaughnessy, Irish Times
"This is a praiseworthy attempt to unravel this brilliantly
talented but weak-willed man, who lived to fulfil his football
dream but could not resist the temptation to abuse his body with
drugs. A compelling cocktail of celebration and cheating."
Daily
Mail
"Maradona's life, diligently chronicled in this perspective
and fair-minded book, is one of grotesque farce, a bilious sequence
of operatic catastrophes. Gazza's career compared with this
looks like Emmerdale sat next to the Borgiaa…this is not,
however, mere sensationalist sleaze. Burns knows Argentina well
and his charting of the shanty boy's trajectory towards moral
and pharmaceutical meltdown is detailed in this scrupulously perceptive
and fair-minded book."
Pete Davies, Independent.
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