Did Diego Maradonas Morning Stogie Kill Chelseas Chances This Weekend Against Manchester United?
Whenever we’ve been greeted with a story about Diego Maradona waking up a hotel full of people, it’s usually because he’s been marching loudly to the beat of the Bolivian marching powder he’d been addicted to. So when we heard that Mr. Hand of God caused the ritziest hotel in Manchester to be evacuated, we wondered what the reason was. It turns out that the cigar Diego likes to enjoy in the morning set off the fire alarms at 7 AM, causing everyone in the placeincluding, oh by the way, Chelsea soccer teamto have to skedaddle out in the street in their bathrobes. As if the English didn’t have enough reason to hate him. Stars including John Terry, Joe Cole and Frank Lampard waited for 40 minutes in near-freezing temperatures before getting the all-clear to go back inside the Radisson Edwardian hotel… Maradona was in Manchester to watch Argentinian striker Carlos Tevez turn out for United, though the player was left on the subs bench. Officially, Greater Manchester Fire Service said it c
