Diego Maradona slams England for World Cup ‘theft’ against Colombia

Argentine legend also calls on Fifa’s head of referees Pierluigi Collina to ‘apologise to the Colombian people’

Diego Maradona England Colombia World Cup
 
(Image credit: Roman Kruchinin/AFP/Getty Images)

Argentine motormouth Diego Maradona has likened England’s penalty shoot-out victory over Colombia to grand larceny.

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