[Devongone]

You can take the boy out of the slum but not the slum out of the boy ............? He's been revered like the Dalai Lama since he was about 15 and has lived a life only 0.000001 of the Argentine population can aspire to for over 40 years............. and he's still a drug-snorting gland, prejudiced up to his chubby little eyebrows, above which very little appears to be functional.

How much of a genius would George Best have to have been to perform in any major International Final with the players Northern Ireland had alongside him? Cruyff, Pele and Maradona got to play with some of the best players their countries had ever produced ........ so comparisons tend to become impossible. By his mid-twenties Best had self-destructed, but then Dylan Thomas never saw middle-age, Van Gogh and Keats hardly lived beyond their youth ........

Plenty of good men and wise leaders have emerged from abject poverty and many men live in poverty throughout their blameless lives and are loved and admired by those around them for what and how they ARE, rather than for one thing they happen to do very well. It's a bit of an insult to the poor and oppressed of the world to excuse appalling behaviour because they kinda can't help it.