Reasons to be beardful

Bigfoot, The Bermuda Triangle and the lost City of Atlantis;

Arthur C Clarke type mysteries left unanswered.

Diego Maradona's beard; explained.

A few posts back I queried the new found hirsuteness of El Diego's chinnage and I'm indebted to Hasta El Gol Siempre for an explanation. If you didn't see the comment offered earlier by HEGS's Sam Kelly, here's his take:

Apparently... and you're going to love this... the beard has been grown 'on the advice of Diego's doctors' following the stitches he had put in his lip after his dog, erm, bit him on the mouth. So you see, it's a life-giving beard. I'm not kidding. That's a direct quote from Monday's Olé.

The fact that he went into hospital looking like Ron Wood and came out with a face smoother than baby's arse... well it's been noticed, but not by the press. I mean there's no way the dog attack was just an excuse for plastic surgery, right?

Vain? our Diego? surely not. Bless his little cottons. He's timed things just so that he looks his best in time for South Africa.

In fact IBWM was so taken by Diego wanting to look his best that it stumped up £100 of it's own pocket money to get one of those professional artists computer generated impression type things done. The brief, to the bloke that IBWM met in the pub, was 'show us exactly what El Diego will look like when the beard goes'. I wasn't disappointed with the results........

You've still got it Diego, you old rascal!

That's 100 smackers well spent in my book, he's going to look great. They even done him up in a tuxedo. Amazing.

Isn't it great what they can do with computers these days......

What do you think?