The dialogue | El Diego Pasa

Maradona! Maradona! What's with you? Didn't know you liked her singing 'Don't cry for me Argentina' in Evita? Not Madonna, you twit! Diego Maradona, the greatest footballer the world has ever seen. He's in Kolkata for two days and the city's gone mad.

Maradona! Maradona!

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What's with you? Didn't know you liked her singing 'Don't cry for me Argentina' in Evita?

Not Madonna, you twit! Diego Maradona, the greatest footballer the world has ever seen. He's in Kolkata for two days and the city's gone mad.

Is he playing a match? He's a bit over the hill, you know.

He is God. And he's there on a goodwill visit. Along with his glorious left foot.

And his right 'hand of God', I suppose.

Hmmph. The Kolkata crowd, millions of them, has been shouting, 'Boca....

What? Shouting Bengali expletives?!

No you moron. They were shouting out the name of his first football club, 'Boca Juniors', you filthy minded man!

Oh I am so sorry, I was thinking if the Kolkata clubs want him as coach and since he must have refused, so...

Don’t say: Doesn't he look a bit like Rishi Kapoor?

Do say: Even after all these years, nice legs!