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Ex-Rangers star Trevor Steven joked a rich Scot has coughed up £4m for Diego Maradona’s ' Hand of God ' shirt as it goes on sale at auction.

Everton manager Frank Lampard has spilled the beans on his life away from football after admitting he enjoys watching reality show Love Island - and lifted the lid on his chance meeting with idol Diego Maradona. The Everton manager has not been feeling the love at Goodison Park, after losing six of his first seven Premier League matches as the Toffees’ boss.

Vladimir Putin only named one Russian player when picking out his three favourite football players of all time back in 2018.The Russian president revealed his three favourite footballers of all time whilst speaking to the media ahead of a trip to China before the 2018 World Cup in Russia. However, there was only space for one Russian in his top three, which also included World Cup winners and football icons Diego Maradona and Pele.According to Russian outlet Tass, Putin chose legendary former Soviet Union and Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper Lev Yashin as the third and final player in his top three favourites.Yashin, who was nicknamed the 'Black Spider', is regarded by many as the greatest goalkeeper in the history of football and is the only keeper to have ever won the Ballon d'Or.He spent his entire 20-year playing career with Dynamo Moscow, winning five Soviet league titles and three Soviet Cups during this period.For his country, he was part of a side which won the maiden Euros in France in 1960 as well as an Olympic gold medal at the 1956 games in Melbourne, Australia.Is Lev Yashin the greatest goalkeeper of all time? Let us know in the comments section below.In addition to his 1963 Ballon d'Or win, he was also named the European goalkeeper of the year on nine separate occasions during his 20 seasons as a professional.As well as naming Pele, Maradona and Yashin as his three favourite footballers of all-time, Putin also explained his dedication to sport, claiming: "I dedicate about two to two and a half hours to sports every day.”He is said to enjoy the gym, swimming and judo when it comes to his daily exercise, but also has a fondness for ice hockey, adding: "I also play hockey though not so often as I would like to.

Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has dropped a hint over transfer plans for Harry Kane amid the long-standing interest from Manchester United and Manchester City. Either side of his Euro 2020 exploits last summer, the England captain was priced out of a move to the Etihad Stadium.

What is Harry Kane's best position? Have your say in the comments section.Kane's surge in form as a goal maker as well as a goal taker has seen Spurs roar into fourth spot, putting the heat on Arsenal. Since the turn of the year no other Premier League team has scored more goals than Tottenham's 30.And they have now scored 43 in total in their 20 Premier League matches under the Italian.

Ipswich Town defender, who went on to play for Newcastle, Wigan and Sunderland, lined up for the The Tractor Boys at the San Siro in the second leg of a UEFA Cup Round three clash in December of 2001. Going into the game with a one-goal lead thanks to Alun Armstrong, George Burley's men were on the wrong end of a 4-1 scoreline - but Bramble didn't seem too bothered.

Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona are inextricably linked, as two of the greatest players to ever grace a football pitch – and remarkably they once did just that together.Maradona retired from professional football in 1997, when Messi was aged just 10 and was still learning to play the game with Newell’s Old Boys. The icon of Argentinian football had left an indelible mark on the game over a dazzling career – and it was to be a mantle taken up by Messi many years later.The two geniuses crossed paths when Maradona became manager of Argentina between 2008 and 2010, when Messi was at the height of his powers with Barcelona.

Diego Maradona has been removed from FIFA 22 less than two years after the Argentine icon's death.Maradona featured on the game in its Ultimate Team section, where he had four FUT Icon 'cards' at various stages of his career. He was also part of the Soccer Aid World XI, available to use in the Kick-Off mode.The legend is one of the highest-rated players in the game - and his highest card is rated 98 out 99.

Diego Maradona once claimed that he had ‘no idea’ who infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar was before meeting the Colombian for a prison party. Escobar was the feared leader of the Medellin Cartel, amassing a net worth of more than £45billion at the time of his death having been dubbed the ‘King of Cocaine’.

Vladimir Putin once revealed he spends two to two-and-a-half hours a day dedicated to playing sports. Putin has seen a lot of his honorary sporting stripped since he ordered an invasion of Ukraine at the end of February.

Diego Maradona tattoo. Daniel Matamala was covering the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine when he was arrested at a police checkpoint.

Paolo Sorrentino won the Foreign Language Oscar, as it was known then, in 2014 with his film The Great Beauty. He returns to the frame this year with The Hand of God, perhaps his most personal picture, which is nominated for Best International Feature. This lightly fictionalized tale of Sorrentino’s own youth in Naples, as he grappled with family tragedy, celebrated Diego Maradona’s arrival at his local football team, and took his first steps into his love of cinema, stars newcomer Filippo Scotti as Fabi Schisa, a teenager struggling to find his place in the world.

2022 MotoGP is ready for lights out ahead of what is set to be a spectacular year.The Qatar Grand Prix is the first event of the record-breaking 21-race season with riders and fans alike raring to go as Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo defends his world title from the likes of Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia, Suzuki’s Joan Mir and Honda’s six-time world champion Marc Marquez.With so many names in the mix for the title, British former motorcycle racer Neil Hodgson cannot wait for the season to get underway ahead of what he believes will be a banner year for the sport. “In terms of machinery and the drivers’ ability, the field is so close across the board; almost any rider could win the race on the day if things just go for them,” Hodgson exclusively told The Daily Star .

Diego Maradona-style Hand of God goal in the Europa Conference League.The incredible exchange occurred during Qarabag's last-16 tie with Marseille on Thursday. With his side 1-0 down on the night and 4-1 behind on aggregate, Qarabag forward Ibrahima Wadji thought he'd found a way back into the game for his side with a goal on 34 minutes.But replays showed he had blatantly used his hand to beat Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda to the ball in scenes reminiscent of Maradona's Hand of God goal for Argentina against England at World Cup 86.

Vladimir Putin has remarkably snubbed both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi from his selection for the world's top three footballers.Despite winning a combined 12 Ballon d'Or awards between themselves, the outspoken President of Russia, 69, failed to select either the Manchester United ace or the PSG hero in his choice of the planet's most decorated players.Instead, Putin opted for Pele and Diego Maradona as his answers for the top two spots with the duo dominating the footballing scene throughout the 1960s and 1980s respectively.

Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards got in each other's faces during an hilarious boxing stand-off in the Sky Sports studios ahead of Amir Khan's upcoming bout against Kell Brook.The two pundits stared each other down as Dave Jones acted as the enforcer, but things took a turn for the worse when Carragher decided to get a little physical with his colleagues."Alright boys, keep it calm … woah, woah, woah, don't get too close," Jones says."He doesn't wanna get too close to me," Carragher responds, before Richards warns the former Liverpool defender that he's going to hit him on his "whiskers"."You leave his whiskers alone," replies Jones.Moments later, Carragher goes to shove Richards but inadvertently hurts Jones, who had injured his groin earlier in the broadcast while playing keepy-ups with an American football ahead of Super Bowl Sunday."Oh Jesus," Jones can be heard saying as he crumples over in a heap.Naturally, Richards and Carragher show little sympathy for their fallen co-worker and burst out laughing.Who is the funniest football pundit on TV? Let us know in the comments section below...Fans were in stitches earlier in the day when Carragher snuck in a cheeky Valentine's joke while Jones was hobbling back to his seat after injuring himself during the keepy-up challenge."The groin! On Valentine's weekend as well," the 44-year-old quipped.Carragher himself took to the challenge like a duck to water, and was even likened to Diego Maradona after effortlessly plucking the ball out of the sky after a wayward kick of his hit the studio's lights.This Saturday, Khan goes toe-to-toe with Brook at the AO Arena in Manchester in a fight that has been years in the making - which will be shown live on Sky Sports.

Cristiano Ronaldo's mother Dolores Aveiro gifted the Pope a shirt of his son's after a visit to the Vatican City. The Manchester United star’s mum met the head of the Catholic church on Wednesday morning.

The little town of Calchin is lost in the vastness of the Pampas, the great grasslands that feeds the people of Argentina’s cities.

Manchester City know they already have one thing in their favour as they enter the race for Julian Alvarez.

By any yardstick, Paolo Sorrentino has had a lot of good luck in his directing career. His first film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and the next six competed at Cannes, a residency that brought an Oscar nomination for 2013’s The Great Beauty. But Sorrentino does not take his good fortune for granted. In Netflix’s The Hand of God he reflects on the twist of fate that saved his life as a teenager in the 1980s, when a freak accident claimed the lives of both his parents. Starring Filippo Scotti as Fabietto, the film is a lightly fictionalized account of the artist as an introspective young man, with a Sony Walkman on his hip and an obsession with S.S.C. Napoli footballer Diego Maradona…

Antonio Cassano claims he received an angry text from Cristiano Ronaldo demanding respect after he criticised the Portuguese superstar.