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Within a single four-minute window on a football pitch in Mexico City in June of 1986, a five-foot-five Argentine named Diego Maradona scored the most notorious goal in World Cup history and then the most beautiful — both in the same match, both against England

Objectivity score: 70
The single greatest player of the 1980s scored the single most controversial and the single most celebrated goals in World Cup history within four minutes of each other in the same afternoon, against the same team, at the same ground, with the same left foot and the same left hand. The specific political weight of the match, set against the recent history of Argentine-British diplomatic relations,...