What if the Seven Deadly Sins were footballers?

Modified Oct 25, 2016 10:50 GMT

Envy – Terry Butcher

Terry Butcher is rendered irrelevant as Maradona embarks on his wondrous run

From what transpired with Terry (who coveted his friend's girlfriend) and Giggs (who coveted his brother's *throws up a little*), it is clear that many footballers could lay claim to the tag of Envy, but here we go with one of the breed that generally seem to envious of everything around them – football's so called 'hardmen'.

This includes people like Bolivia's Yasmani Duk, who was so infuriated at being nutmegged that he nearly elbowed Neymar Jr.'s head clean off. It was ugly, the only way many people can respond to people who are infinitely more skilled than them; and while it reeks of brutality and thuggery more than anything else – a strong underlying current of envy is common to most of these kinds of fouls.

Terry Butcher, English hardman and the man designated to mark the Argentine superstar in that '86 semifinal booted, elbowed and generally bullied Diego around for the vast majority of the match but all to no avail. Maradona then went on to score the two most famous goals in the game's history, and etch his name alongside Pele as the finest of all time; but Butcher never really got over that first goal – the Hand of God When the two met in 2008 - Maradona as Argentina's manager, Butcher as Scotland's assistant – there was no love lost between the two. Butcher expressed his desire to punch Maradona in the face and had a face of thunderous fury as Diego took his seat in the opposition dug-out.

That, of course, may also be due to the way Maradona responded when he was told what Butcher wanted to do with his face