In 1987, Napoli, who had just become champions of Italy, played Real Madrid in the first round of what was then called the European Cup. In the Napoli line up was Diego Maradona, the player who had driven the club to their first title, the first by a club in the south of Italy. Maradona had won the World Cup with Argentina the year before, he was the greatest player the game had ever seen and a figure whose cultural impact stretched far beyond football. This, Miguel Delaney writes in his new book States of Play – How Sportswashing Took…

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