Under pressure: Football managers let off steam on the touchline

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Diego Maradona (Argentina)

Immaculate and buttoned up in a smart grey business suit with silk tie and cufflinks, stylishly coiffed by Buenos Aires's top branch of Toni y Guy, and inexplicably wearing two wristwatches, Diego Maradona prepares to punch himself in the mouth with the Hand of God. Or is he inspecting the rosary that he habitually carries? Actually, this is the Argentine manager celebrating the defender Martin Demichelis's opening goal against Greece on 22 June



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